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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#4001

Peter Wynn

#31971

Overall Influence

1932 - 2017 (85 years)

Peter Wynn was an English mathematician. His main achievements concern approximation theory – in particular the theory of Padé approximants – and its application in numerical methods for improving the rate of convergence of sequences of real numbers.

#4002

Patricia Fauring

#71942

Overall Influence

Ana María Patricia Fauring is an Argentine mathematician who won the Paul Erdős Award for being "the principal mathematician involved in training Argentine teams for the IMO and other international events, where they have done respectably".

#4003

Xiaoying Han

#71570

Overall Influence

Xiaoying Han is a Chinese mathematician whose research concerns random dynamical systems, stochastic differential equations, and actuarial science. She is Marguerite Scharnagle Endowed Professor in Mathematics at Auburn University.

#4004

Heidi Thornquist

#71749

Overall Influence

Heidi Krista Thornquist is an American applied mathematician at Sandia National Laboratories known for her work on the Trilinos system of software for scientific computing. Her research interests include numerical linear algebra and electronic circuit simulation.

#4005

Marta Sanz-Solé

#54223

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Marta Sanz-Solé is a Catalan mathematician specializing in probability theory. She obtained her PhD in 1978 from the University of Barcelona under the supervision of David Nualart. Career Sanz-Solé is professor at the University of Barcelona, and head of the research group on stochastic processes. Prior to taking up her post at the UB, she was associate professor at the University Autònoma of Barcelona. She was Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics UB from 1993-1996, and Vice-president of the Division of Experimental Sciences and Mathematics from 2000-2003. In May 2015 she was appointed chair of the scientific Committee of the Graduate School of Mathematics .

#4006

Sigal Gottlieb

#69245

Overall Influence

Sigal Gottlieb is an applied mathematician. She is a professor of mathematics and the director of the Center for Scientific Computing and Visualization Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

#4007

Elham Kazemi

#58130

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Elham Kazemi is a mathematics educator and educational psychologist, the Geda and Phil Condit Professor in Math and Science Education in the College of Education of the University of Washington. Education and career Kazemi is originally from Iran, and moved to the US at age 11. She graduated from Duke University in 1992 with a bachelor's degree in psychology, and became an elementary school teacher in Phoenix, Arizona. Returning to graduate study in educational psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, she earned a master's degree in 1997 and completed her Ph.D. in 1999. Her di...

#4008

Sue Whitesides

#65561

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Sue Hays Whitesides is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist, a professor emeritus of computer science and the chair of the computer science department at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. Her research specializations include computational geometry and graph drawing.

#4009

Henri Moscovici

#67657

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Henri Moscovici is a Romanian-American mathematician, specializing in non-commutative geometry and global analysis. Moscovici received his undergraduate degree in 1966 and his doctorate in 1971 at the University of Bucharest under the supervision of Gheorghe Vrânceanu. From 1966 to 1971 Moscovici was an assistant at Politehnica University of Bucharest, from 1971 to 1975 at the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy and from 1975 to 1977 at the Institute of Atomic Physics in Măgurele, and from 1977 at the INCREST in Bucharest. In 1978 he left for the United States, where he was a visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

#4010

Kanta Gupta

#76777

Overall Influence

1938 - 2016 (78 years)

Chander Kanta Gupta was a Canadian distinguished professor of mathematics at the University of Manitoba, known for her research in abstract algebra and group theory. Much of her research concerns the automorphisms in different varieties of groups.

#4011

Wei Ho

#71292

Overall Influence

Wei Ho is an American mathematician specializing in number theory, algebraic geometry, arithmetic geometry, and representation theory. She is an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

#4012

Richard H. Schwartz

Richard H. Schwartz

#22668

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (90 years)

Richard H. Schwartz is a professor emeritus of mathematics at the College of Staten Island; president emeritus of the Jewish Vegetarians of North America ; and co-founder and coordinator of the Society of Ethical and Religious Vegetarians . He is best known as a Jewish vegetarian activist and advocate for animal rights in the United States and Israel.

#4013

Rebecca Shipley

#56416

Overall Influence

Rebecca Julia Shipley is a British mathematician and professor of healthcare engineering at University College London . She is director of the UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering, co-director of the UCL Centre for Nerve Engineering and Vice Dean for the UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences. She is also co-director of the UCL CHIMERA Research Hub with Prof Christina Pagel and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.

#4014

Antoinette Tordesillas

#67358

Overall Influence

Antoinette A. Tordesillas is a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Melbourne, Australia who has helped build a foundational understanding of the dynamics of granular materials. She received the J H Michell Medal in 2000 and her major contributions include research predicting the response of extraterrestrial soil to attempts to build, mine, or drill and a model that can identify the location and time of future landslides or earthquakes by analyzing slope stability changes.

#4015

Philip Maini

#39057

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Philip Kumar Maini is a Northern Irish mathematician. Since 1998, he has been the Professor of Mathematical Biology at the University of Oxford and is the director of the Wolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology in the Mathematical Institute.

#4016

Jeanne N. Clelland

#80889

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Jeanne A. Nielsen Clelland is an American mathematician specializing in differential geometry and its applications to differential equations. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Colorado Boulder, and the author of a textbook on moving frames, From Frenet to Cartan: The Method of Moving Frames .

#4017

Bálint Virág

#80600

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Bálint Virág is a Hungarian mathematician working in Canada, known for his work in probability theory, particularly determinantal processes, random matrix theory, and random walks and other probabilistic questions on groupss. He received his Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in 2000, under the direction of Yuval Peres, and was a post-doc at MIT. Since 2003 he has been a Canada research chair at the University of Toronto.

#4018

Todd Arbogast

#45880

Overall Influence

Todd Arbogast is an American mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a W. A. "Tex" Moncrief, Jr. Simulation-Based Engineering and Sciences Professor and Frank E. Gerth III Faculty Fellow. His research concerns the numerical analysis of partial differential equations.

#4019

David Seetapun

#53510

Overall Influence

David Seetapun is an English logician and former investment banker. Academic Work During the fall of 1990, David Seetapun was said to have "used a very interesting 0′′′- priority argument to prove that every r.e. degree 0 < a < 0′ is locally noncappable, namely 0 < a < 0′ a < c b < c [a∩b = 0 => b = 0]". Seetapun received a PhD in logic from Cambridge in 1991, the topic was "Contributions to recursion theory". He went on to a post-doctoral position at Berkeley where in 1995 he published an influential article with his post-doctoral adviser Theodore Slaman applying reverse mathematics to Ramsey's theorem.

#4020

Yvonne Stokes

#53463

Overall Influence

Yvonne Marie Stokes is an Australian mathematician whose research involves fluid mechanics, mathematical biology, and industrial applications of mathematics. She is a professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the University of Adelaide.

#4021

Thomas W. Tucker

#75472

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Thomas William Tucker is an American mathematician, the Charles Hetherington Professor of Mathematics at Colgate University, and an expert in the area of topological graph theory. Tucker did his undergraduate studies at Harvard University, graduating in 1967, and obtained his Ph.D. from Dartmouth College in 1971, under the supervision of Edward Martin Brown.

#4022

Harvey Dubner

#57947

Overall Influence

1928 - 2019 (91 years)

Harvey Dubner was an electrical engineer and mathematician who lived in New Jersey, noted for his contributions to finding large prime numbers. In 1984, he and his son Robert collaborated in developing the 'Dubner cruncher', a board which used a commercial finite impulse response filter chip to speed up dramatically the multiplication of medium-sized multi-precision numbers, to levels competitive with supercomputers of the time, though his focus later changed to efficient implementation of FFT-based algorithms on personal computers.

#4023

Marian P. Roque

#64597

Overall Influence

Marian P. Roque is a Filipina mathematician. She was the president of the Mathematical Society of the Philippines, a professor in the Institute of Mathematics of the University of the Philippines Diliman, and former Director of the Institute of Mathematics. Her mathematical specialty is the theory of partial differential equations.

#4024

Clyde Martin

#74734

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Clyde Martin is an American mathematician and Professor of Statistics. He is best known for his work collaborating with scientists, engineers, and health care professionals developing applications of statistics.

#4025

Sam Vandervelde

#79095

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Samuel Kendrick Vandervelde is a mathematician who, along with Sandor Lehoczky and Richard Rusczyk, is most notable for creating the Mandelbrot Competition, and being listed first under "Thanks" in the mathematical textbook The Art of Problem Solving.

#4026

Marlis Hochbruck

Marlis Hochbruck

#74624

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Marlis Hochbruck is a German applied mathematician and numerical analyst known for her research on matrix exponentials, exponential integrators, and their applications to the numerical solution of differential equations. She is a professor in the Institute for Applied and Numerical Mathematics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

#4027

Andrew J. Sommese

#75644

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Andrew John Sommese is an American mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry. Sommese received in 1969 from Fordham University a bachelor's degree and in 1973 from Princeton University a PhD under Phillip Griffiths with thesis Algebraic properties of the period-mapping. As a postdoc Sommese was from 1973 to 1975 a Gibbs Instructor at Yale University and was for the academic year 1975–1976 at the Institute for Advanced Study. He became at Cornell University in 1975 an assistant professor and at the University of Notre Dame in 1979 an associate professor and in 1983 a full professor. At...

#4028

Michel Bierlaire

#48002

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Michel Bierlaire is a Belgian-Swiss applied mathematician specialized in transportation modeling and optimization. He is a professor at EPFL and the head of the Transport and Mobility Laboratory. Career Bierlaire received a PhD in mathematics from University of Namur in 1996 for his thesis on "Mathematical models for transportation demand analysis" that was supervised by Philippe Toint. He then joined as a research associate the Intelligent Transportation Systems Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he worked on the design and development of DynaMIT, a real-time softwar...

#4029

Frances Kuo

#70939

Overall Influence

Frances Y. Kuo is an applied mathematician known for her research on low-discrepancy sequences and quasi-Monte Carlo methods for numerical integration and finite element analysis. Originally from Taiwan, she was educated in New Zealand, and works in Australia as a professor in applied mathematics at the University of New South Wales.

#4030

Enrique Pujals

#71103

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Enrique Ramiro Pujals is a Brazilian mathematician known for his contributions to the understanding of dynamical systems. Since fall of 2018, he has been a professor at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York.

#4031

Astrid Beckmann

Astrid Beckmann

#47049

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Astrid Beckmann is a German physicist, a professor of mathematics and mathematics education, and was a long-serving university president. Beckmann served as president of the Pädagogische Hochschule Schwäbisch Gmünd from 2010 to 2018. She also taught at the University of Ulm.

#4032

Alexandr Mishchenko

#62363

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Alexandr Sergeevich Mishchenko is a Russian mathematician, specializing in differential geometry and topology and their applications to mathematical modeling in the biosciences. Education and career After completing undergraduate study in 1965 in the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University, Mishchenko became a graduate student in the Department of Higher Geometry and Topology of the same Faculty and graduated there in 1968 with Candidate of Sciences degree . His PhD thesis K-теория на категории бесконечных комплексов was supervised by Sergei Novikov. In 1973 Mishchenk...

#4033

Francis Bonahon

Francis Bonahon

#81149

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Francis Bonahon is a French mathematician, specializing in low-dimensional topology. Biography Bonahon received in 1972 his baccalauréat, and was accepted in 1974 into the École Normale Supérieure. He received in 1975 his maîtrise in mathematics from the University of Paris VII, and in 1979 his doctorate from the University of Paris XI under Laurence Siebenmann with thesis Involutions et fibrés de Seifert dans les variétés de dimension 3. As a postdoc he was for the academic year 1979/80 a Procter Fellow at Princeton University. In 1980 he became an attaché de recherche and in 1983 a chargé de recherche of the CNRS.

#4034

Tasha Inniss

#69691

Overall Influence

Tasha Rose Inniss is an American mathematician and the director of education and industry outreach for the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences . Early life and education Inniss was born in New Orleans and grew up without a father. She became interested in mathematics in fourth grade, and decided she would study it as a freshman in high school. She studied mathematics at Xavier University of Louisiana, graduating summa cum laude. In 1992 she was listed in the Who's Who Among Colleges and Universities for her academic achievements. She earned a master's degree in applie...

#4035

Maria Emelianenko

#67956

Overall Influence

Maria Emelianenko is a Russian-American applied mathematician and materials scientist known for her work in numerical algorithms, scientific computing, grain growth, and centroidal Voronoi tessellations. She is a professor of mathematical sciences at George Mason University.

#4036

Jayanta Kumar Ghosh

Jayanta Kumar Ghosh

#37240

Overall Influence

1937 - 2017 (80 years)

Jayanta Kumar Ghosh was an Indian statistician, an emeritus professor at Indian Statistical Institute and a professor of statistics at Purdue University. Education He obtained a B.S. from Presidency College, then affiliated with the University of Calcutta, and subsequently a M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Calcutta under the supervision of H. K. Nandi. He started his research career in the early 1960s, studying sequential analysis as a graduate student in the department of statistics at the University of Calcutta.

#4037

Konstantin Ardakov

#70893

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (45 years)

Konstantin Ardakov is professor of pure mathematics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and fellow and tutor in mathematics at Brasenose College, Oxford. After education at the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, he held positions at Cambridge, the University of Sheffield, the University of Nottingham, and Queen Mary University of London, before returning to Oxford.

#4038

Nels David Nelson

#64660

Overall Influence

1918 - 2003 (85 years)

David Nelson, an American mathematician and logician, was born on January 2, 1918, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Upon graduation from the Ph.D. program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Nelson relocated to Washington, D.C. Nelson remained in Washington, D.C. as a Professor of Mathematics at The George Washington University until his death on August 22, 2003.

#4039

Sylvia Richardson

#58438

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Sylvia Therese Richardson is a French/British Bayesian statistician and is currently Professor of Biostatistics and Director of the MRC Biostatistics Unit at the University of Cambridge. In 2021 she became the president of the Royal Statistical Society for the 2021–22 year.

#4040

Andrzej Grzegorczyk

Andrzej Grzegorczyk

#46044

Overall Influence

1922 - 2014 (92 years)

Andrzej Grzegorczyk was a Polish logician, mathematician, philosopher, and ethicist noted for his work in computability, mathematical logic and the foundations of mathematics. Historical family background Andrzej Grzegorczyk's foundational family background has its origins in the Polish intellectual, religious, patriotic and nationalist traditions. He was the only child to the Galician family of well-educated and wealthy parents, his father Piotr Jan Grzegorczyk was a Polish philologist and historian of Polish literature involved in literary criticism, bibliographic studies, and chronicles of the Polish cultural life.

#4041

Wanxiong Shi

#80520

Overall Influence

1963 - 2021 (58 years)

Wanxiong Shi was a Chinese mathematician. He was known for his fundamental work in the theory of Ricci flow. Education Shi was a native of Quanzhou, Fujian. In 1978, Shi graduated from Quanzhou No. 5 Middle School, and entered the University of Science and Technology of China. Shi earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1982, then he went to the Institute of Mathematics of Chinese Academy of Sciences and obtained his master's degree in mathematics in 1985 under the guidance of Lu Qikeng and Zhong Jiaqing . Then Shi was recruited by Shing-Tung Yau to study under him at the University of California, San Diego.

#4042

Dan Laksov

#75588

Overall Influence

1940 - 2013 (73 years)

Dan Laksov was a Norwegian-Swedish mathematician and human rights activist. He was primarily active within the field of algebraic geometry. Biography Laksov was born in Oslo in 1940, the same year that Norway was occupied by Nazi Germany. He was a son of Amalie Laksov and Håkon Laksov , both born 1911; the family were Jews. The ancestors on both sides had immigrated from Russia via the Baltics to Norway in the late 19th century. Håkon Laksov was a lawyer and active in the Jewish community. In the book I slik en natt. Historien om deportasjonen av jøder fra Norge by Kristian Ottosen, the escape of Amalie and Dan from Norway in November 1942 is chronicled.

#4043

James E. Gentle

#61998

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

James E. Gentle is an American statistician and author. He was a professor of statistics at George Mason University until his retirement in 2016. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics and Senior Editor of Communications in Statistics.

#4044

Tan Eng Chye

#32099

Overall Influence

Tan Eng Chye is a Singaporean mathematician and university administrator who has been serving as the third president of the National University of Singapore since 2018. Prior to his presidency, he served as the deputy president of academic affairs and provost at the National University of Singapore.

#4045

David Acheson

#62681

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

David John Acheson is a British applied mathematician at Jesus College, Oxford. He was educated at Highgate School, King's College London and the University of East Anglia . He was appointed a Fellow in Mathematics at Jesus College, Oxford in 1977 and became an Emeritus Fellow in 2008. He served as president of the Mathematical Association from 2010 to 2011. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of East Anglia in 2013.

#4046

James Wiegold

#80075

Overall Influence

1934 - 2009 (75 years)

James "Jim" Wiegold was a Welsh mathematician. Born in Trecenydd, Caerphilly, he earned a Ph.D. at the University of Manchester, England in 1958, studying under Bernhard Neumann, and is most notable for his contributions to group theory.

#4047

Jacob Korevaar

#46832

Overall Influence

1923 - Present (101 years)

Jacob "Jaap" Korevaar is a Dutch mathematician. He was part of the faculty of the University of California San Diego and University of Wisconsin–Madison, as well as the University of Amsterdam . Korevaar became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1975. He won the 1987 Lester R. Ford Award, and the 1989 Chauvenet Prize, for an essay on Louis de Branges de Bourcia's proof of the Bieberbach conjecture. In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

#4048

Bruce Reed

#73075

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Bruce Alan Reed FRSC is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist, a former Canada Research Chair in Graph Theory at McGill University. His research is primarily in graph theory. He is a distinguished research fellow of the Institute of Mathematics in the Academia Sinica, Taiwan, and an adjunct professor at the University of Victoria in Canada.

#4049

Peter Giblin

#73934

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Peter John Giblin is an English mathematician whose primary research involves singularity theory and its application to geometry, computer vision, and computer graphics. Giblin is an emeritus professor of mathematics at the University of Liverpool where he has served on staff for more than 40 years. His positions at Liverpool have included Head of Department , and Head of Division .

#4050

Sue Geller

#67749

Overall Influence

Sue Geller is an American mathematician and a professor emerita of mathematics at the department of mathematics at Texas A&M University. She is noted for her research background in algebraic K-theory, as well as her interdisciplinary work in bioinformatics and biostatistics, among other disciplines.

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