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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#4101

Massimo Marchiori

Massimo Marchiori

#17523

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Massimo Marchiori is an Italian mathematician and computer scientist. Biography In July, 2004, he was awarded the TR35 prize by Technology Review . He is Professor in Computer Science at the University of Padua, and Research Scientist at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the World Wide Web Consortium.

#4102

Michela Varagnolo

#72545

Overall Influence

Michela Varagnolo is a mathematician whose research topics have included representation theory, Hecke algebra, Schur–Weyl duality, Yangians, and quantum affine algebras. She earned a doctorate in 1993 at the University of Pisa, under the supervision of Corrado de Concini, and is maître de conférences in the department of mathematics at CY Cergy Paris University, affiliated there with the research laboratory on analysis, geometry, and modeling.

#4103

Luchezar L. Avramov

#85576

Overall Influence

Luchezar L. Avramov is a Bulgarian-American mathematician who works in commutative algebra. He held the Dale M. Jensen Chair in Mathematics at the University of Nebraska, and is now an Emeritus. Avramov was educated at Moscow State University, earning a master's degree in 1970, a Ph.D. in 1975 , and a D.Sc. in 1986. He worked for the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 1970–1981 and 1989–1990, and Sofia University in 1981–1989, before moving to the United States in 1991 to become a professor at Purdue University. He moved again to the University of Nebraska in 2002.

#4104

Takeshi Saito

#85911

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Takeshi Saito is a Japanese mathematician, specializing in some areas of number theory and algebraic geometry. His thesis advisor was Kazuya Kato. Saito was an invited speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010.

#4105

Adriaan Cornelis Zaanen

Adriaan Cornelis Zaanen

#80771

Overall Influence

1913 - 2003 (90 years)

Adriaan Cornelis "Aad" Zaanen was a Dutch mathematician working in analysis. He is known for his books on Riesz spaces . Biography Zaanen was born in Rotterdam, where he attended the Hogere Burgerschool. He graduated in 1930 with excellent marks, and started his studies in mathematics at Leiden University. Having obtained his master's degree in 1935, he did research under the guidance of his doctoral advisor Johannes Droste, and was awarded a Ph.D. in 1938. His doctoral thesis dealt with the convergence of series of eigenvalues of boundary value problems of the Sturm–Liouville type. The same ...

#4106

Philip Rosenau

#85934

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Philip Rosenau , is an Israeli mathematician and a poet. He is a professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics at Tel Aviv University. He introduced compactons, along with James M. Hyman.

#4107

Elena Fernández

#69303

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Elena Fernández Aréizaga is a Spanish operations researcher, the former president of the Association of European Operational Research Societies. Topics in her research include facility location, network design, the vehicle routing problem, and heuristic methods for mathematical optimization. She is a professor of statistics and operations research at the University of Cádiz.

#4108

Vivienne Malone-Mayes

Vivienne Malone-Mayes

#53255

Overall Influence

1932 - 1995 (63 years)

Vivienne Lucille Malone-Mayes was an American mathematician and professor. Malone-Mayes studied properties of functions, as well as methods of teaching mathematics. She was the fifth African-American woman to gain a PhD in mathematics in the United States, and the first African-American member of the faculty of Baylor University.

#4109

Steve Alpern

#36696

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Steve Alpern is a professor of Operational Research at the University of Warwick, where he recently moved after working for many years at the London School of Economics. His early work was mainly in the area of dynamical systems and ergodic theory, but his more recent research has been concentrated in the fields of search games and rendezvous. He informally introduced the rendezvous problem as early as 1976. His collaborators include Shmuel Gal, Vic Baston and Robbert Fokkink.

#4110

Laura Person

#72642

Overall Influence

Laura J. Person is an American mathematician specializing in low-dimensional topology. She is a distinguished teaching professor of mathematics at the State University of New York at Potsdam. Education and career Person completed her Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1988. Her dissertation, A Piece-Wise Linear Proof That The Singular Norm Is The Thurston Norm, concerned the Thurston norm, an invariant of three-dimensional spaces; it was supervised by Martin Scharlemann. She joined the faculty at SUNY Potsdam in 1989. At Potsdam, she is also the academic coo...

#4111

Slobodan Aljančić

#85982

Overall Influence

1922 - 1993 (71 years)

Slobodan Aljančić was a Serbian mathematician who worked on functional analysis.

#4112

Guy David

#78680

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Guy David is a French mathematician, specializing in analysis. Biography David studied from 1976 to 1981 at the École normale supérieure, graduating with Agrégation and Diplôme d'études approfondies . At the University of Paris-Sud he received in 1981 his doctoral degree and in 1986 his higher doctorate with thesis Noyau de Cauchy et opérateurs de Caldéron-Zygmund supervised by Yves Meyer. David was from 1982 to 1989 an attaché de recherches at the Centre de mathématiques Laurent Schwartz of the CNRS. At the University of Paris-Sud he was from 1989 to 1991 a professor and from 1991 to 20...

#4113

Klaus Matthes

#80061

Overall Influence

1931 - 1998 (67 years)

Klaus Matthes was a German mathematician, known as the founder of the theory of marked and infinitely divisible point processes. From 1981 to 1991 he was the director of the GDR Academy of Sciences' Institute of Mathematics in Berlin.

#4114

Ildar Ibragimov

Ildar Ibragimov

#86000

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (92 years)

Ildar Abdulovich Ibragimov is a Russian mathematician, specializing in probability theory and mathematical statistics. Biography Ibragimov is the son of a father who was an engineer with Bashkir ancestry and a mother who was a physician from a Tatar family with origins in Kazan. Ildar Ibragimov studied at Leningrad State University, where he graduated in mathematics in 1956. He received in 1960 his Russian candidate degree under Yuri Linnik and in 1967 his Russian doctorate . In 1969 he became a professor of probability at Leningrad State University.

#4115

Richard Shore

#34624

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Richard Arnold Shore is a professor of mathematics at Cornell University who works in recursion theory, the partial order of the Turing degrees.Shore settled the Rogers respectively, are not isomorphic.In joint work with Theodore Slaman, Shore showed that the Turing jump.

#4116

Joan E. Walsh

#51023

Overall Influence

1932 - 2017 (85 years)

Joan Eileen Walsh was a British mathematician, a professor of numerical analysis at the University of Manchester, and the founding chair of the Numerical Algorithms Group. She was the first female professor of mathematics in the UK.

#4117

Mark van der Laan

#57534

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Mark Johannes van der Laan is the Jiann-Ping Hsu/Karl E. Peace Professor of Biostatistics and Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He has made contributions to survival analysis, semiparametric statistics, multiple testing, and causal inference. He also developed the targeted maximum likelihood estimation methodology. He is a founding editor of the Journal of Causal Inference.

#4118

Suzanne Dorée

#69697

Overall Influence

Suzanne Ingrid Dorée is a professor of mathematics at Augsburg University, where she is also chair of the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science,. She is chair of the Congress of the Mathematical Association of America and, as such, serves on its board of directors and the Section Visitors Program . Her doctoral research concerned group theory; she has also published in mathematics education.

#4119

Werner Romberg

#28656

Overall Influence

1909 - 2003 (94 years)

Werner Romberg was a German mathematician and physicist. Romberg studied mathematics and physics form 1928 in Heidelberg and Munich and completed his doctorate in 1933 at Munich University under the supervision of Arnold Sommerfeld; his thesis was entitled "Zur Polarisation des Kanalstrahllichtes" ["On the polarisation of channel light beams"]. In Munich he studied mathematics under, among others, Oskar Perron and Constantin Carathéodory. In 1933, as a so-called "half-Jew" in the terminology of the new National Socialist government of Germany, he sought to emigrate to the Soviet Union. From 1934 to 1937 he worked as a theoretical physicist in the university of Dnipro .

#4120

Bonnie Gold

#54707

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Bonnie Gold is an American mathematician, mathematical logician, philosopher of mathematics, and mathematics educator. She is a professor emerita of mathematics at Monmouth University. Education and career Gold completed her Ph.D. in 1976 at Cornell University, under the supervision of Michael D. Morley.

#4121

Hartmut Ehrig

#54102

Overall Influence

1944 - 2016 (72 years)

Hartmut Ehrig was a German computer scientist and professor of theoretical computer science and formal specification. He was a pioneer in algebraic specification of abstract data types, and in graph grammars.

#4122

Dušan Repovš

#71995

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Dušan D. Repovš is a Slovenian mathematician from Ljubljana, Slovenia. He graduated in 1977 from the University of Ljubljana. He obtained his PhD in 1983 from Florida State University with thesis Generalized Three-Manifolds with Zero-Dimensional Singular Set written under the direction of Robert Christopher Lacher. He held a fellowship from the Research Council of Slovenia and a Fulbright scholarship.

#4123

Alfred Inselberg

Alfred Inselberg

#45424

Overall Influence

1936 - 2019 (83 years)

Alfred Inselberg was an American-Israeli mathematician and computer scientist based at Tel Aviv University. Inselberg started his career at the Biological Computer Laboratory based at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was part of a cybernetics group working on biomathematics developing mathematical models of the ear, neural networks, and computer models for vision and non-linear analysis, gaining a PhD in mathematics and physics. During this period he participated in the Symposium on Principles of Self-Organization. He is particularly noted for his work on parallel coordinates ...

#4124

Yuval Peres

#75262

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Yuval Peres is a mathematician known for his research in probability theory, ergodic theory, mathematical analysis, theoretical computer science, and in particular for topics such as fractals and Hausdorff measure, random walks, Brownian motion, percolation and Markov chain mixing times. He was born in Israel and obtained his Ph.D. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1990 under the supervision of Hillel Furstenberg. He was a faculty member at the Hebrew University and the University of California at Berkeley, and a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington. Peres ...

#4125

Adrian Ioana

#74520

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (43 years)

Adrian Ioana is a Romanian mathematician. He is currently a professor at the University of California, San Diego. Ioana earned a BS in Mathematics from the University of Bucharest in 2003, and completed his PhD at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2007, under the supervision of Sorin Popa. He then was a postdoc at the California Institute of Technology and a Research Fellow supported by the Clay Mathematics Institute, after which he joined UC San Diego in 2011.

#4126

Inder Bir Singh Passi

#49944

Overall Influence

1939 - 2021 (82 years)

Inder Bir Singh Passi was an Indian mathematician who specialised in algebra. IBS Passi was the former dean of university instructions and professor emeritus of the department of mathematics at Panjab University. He was awarded in 1983 the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, the highest science award in India, in the mathematical sciences category. Passi was a noted group-theorist in India, had made significant contribution to certain aspects of theory of groups specially to the study of group rings. His results on the dimension subgroups, augmentation powers in group rings, and related problems have received wide recognition.

#4127

David B. Allison

David B. Allison

#36188

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

David Bradley Allison is an American obesity researcher, biostatistician, and psychologist. He is the dean of the Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington and one of the top 10 scientists in the world awarded the most NIH grants. Allison was previously Distinguished Professor, Quetelet Endowed Professor, and Director of the NIH-funded Nutrition Obesity Research Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham .

#4128

Dianna Xu

#68836

Overall Influence

Yilun Dianna Xu is a mathematician and computer scientist whose research concerns the computational geometry of curves and surfaces, computer vision, and computer graphics. She is a professor of computer science at Bryn Mawr College where she chairs the computer science department.

#4129

Susan Martonosi

#70560

Overall Influence

Susan Elizabeth Martonosi is an American mathematician who works at Harvey Mudd College as the Joseph B. Platt Professor of Mathematics and as the director of the Global Clinic Program at Harvey Mudd. Her research studies operations research, game theory, social networks, and their applications to counter-terrorism, epidemiology, and sports analytics.

#4130

Kate Smith-Miles

#70118

Overall Influence

Kate Amanda Smith-Miles is an Australian applied mathematician, known for her research on neural networks and combinatorial optimization. She is a Melbourne Laureate Professor of applied mathematics at the University of Melbourne, and a former president of the Australian Mathematical Society.

#4131

Wiktor Eckhaus

#73678

Overall Influence

1930 - 2000 (70 years)

Wiktor Eckhaus was a Polish–Dutch mathematician, known for his work on the field of differential equations. He was Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics at the Utrecht University. Biography Eckhaus was born into a wealthy family, and raised in Warsaw where his father was managing a fur company. During the German occupation of Poland, he, his mother and sister had to hide because of their Jewish descent. His father, after being a prisoner of war, joined the Russian Army. After the war, in 1947, the re-united family came to Amsterdam – via a refugee camp in Austria.

#4132

John Truss

#58813

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

John Kenneth Truss is a mathematician and emeritus professor of pure mathematics at the University of Leeds where he specialises in mathematical logic, infinite permutation groups, homogeneous structures and model theory. Truss began his career as a junior research fellow at the University of Oxford before holding a series of academic positions and lastly joining the University of Leeds. He has written books on discrete mathematics and mathematical analysis and was co-editor in chief of the Journal of the London Mathematical Society until June 2003. He is the father of the former Prime Mini...

#4133

Hans-Egon Richert

#78183

Overall Influence

1924 - 1993 (69 years)

Hans-Egon Richert was a German mathematician who worked primarily in analytic number theory. He is the author of a definitive book on sieve theory. Life and education Hans-Egon Richert was born in 1924 in Hamburg, Germany. He attended the University of Hamburg and received his Ph.D under Max Deuring in 1950. He held a temporary chair at the University of Göttingen and then a newly created chair at the University of Marburg. In 1972 he moved to the University of Ulm, where he remained until his retirement in 1991. He died on November 25, 1993, in Blaustein, near Ulm, Germany.

#4134

Olli Lokki

#69949

Overall Influence

1916 - 1994 (78 years)

Olli Kristian Lokki was a Finnish mathematician. Education and career Loki was born in Helsinki. His father was a historian and schoolman, Karl Olof Lindeqvist. Lokki graduated in 1934 from the Normal Lyceum of Helsinki, then studied at the University of Helsinki, graduating with a master's degree in 1939 and completed his doctorate under the supervision of Rolf Nevanlinna and Pekka Myrberg in 1947. His thesis was in the field of function theory, with the title Über analytische Funktionen deren Dirichletintegrale endlich ist und die in gegebenen Punkten vorgeschriebene Werte annehmen.

#4135

Henrik Selberg

#78494

Overall Influence

1906 - 1993 (87 years)

Henrik Selberg was a Norwegian mathematician. He was born in Bergen as the son of Ole Michael Ludvigsen Selberg and Anna Kristina Brigtsdatter Skeie. He was a brother of Sigmund, Arne and Atle Selberg. He was appointed professor at the University of Oslo from 1962 to 1973. He is best known for his works on complex functions and potential theory.

#4136

Jacqueline Jensen-Vallin

#72173

Overall Influence

Jacqueline Ann Jensen-Vallin is an American mathematician. She is an associate professor of mathematics at Lamar University, the editor-in-chief of MAA FOCUS, the newsletter of the Mathematical Association of America , and the governor of the Texas Section of the MAA. Her research interests include combinatorial group theory, low-dimensional topology, and knot theory; she is also known for her work in mathematics education and the history of women in mathematics.

#4137

Gail F. Burrill

#72416

Overall Influence

Gail F. Burrill is a mathematics educator who was president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics from 1996 to 1998. She works as a specialist in the Program in Mathematics Education at Michigan State University.

#4138

M. Grazia Speranza

#69644

Overall Influence

Maria Grazia Speranza is an Italian applied mathematician and operations researcher. Her research involves the application of mathematical optimization to problems including portfolio optimization and the combination of inventory management with vehicle routing.

#4139

Virginia Kiryakova

#72219

Overall Influence

Virginia S. Kiryakova is a Bulgarian mathematician known for her work on the fractional calculus, on special functions in fractional calculus including the Mittag-Leffler functions, and on the history of calculus. She is a professor in the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

#4140

Toniann Pitassi

#52601

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Toniann Pitassi is a Canadian-American mathematician and computer scientist specializing in computational complexity theory. She is currently Jeffrey L. and Brenda Bleustein Professor of Engineering at Columbia University and was Bell Research Chair at the University of Toronto.

#4141

Emery N. Brown

#15828

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Emery Neal Brown is an American statistician, neuroscientist, and anesthesiologist. He is the Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and at Massachusetts General Hospital , and a practicing anesthesiologist at MGH. At MIT he is the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and professor of computational neuroscience, the associate director of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, and the Director of the Harvard–MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology.

#4142

Naiomi Cameron

#73074

Overall Influence

Naiomi Tuere Cameron is an American mathematician working in the field of combinatorics. She is an associate professor at Spelman College as well as the vice president of National Association of Mathematicians. She was previously an associate professor at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, OR.

#4143

Jennifer Flegg

#69652

Overall Influence

Jennifer A. Flegg is an Australian mathematician and is a Professor of applied mathematics in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne. Education and career Flegg received her PhD in Applied Mathematics from Queensland University of Technology in 2009. Her dissertation, "Mathematical Modelling of Chronic Wound Healing", was supervised by Dr. Sean McElwain. From 2010 to 2013, she was a researcher at the University of Oxford developing mathematical models for the spread of resistance to antimalarial drugs. From 2014 to early 2017, she was a mathematical lecturer in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Monash University.

#4144

Elena Yanovskaya

#74777

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

Elena Yanovskaya is a Soviet and Russian mathematician and economist known for her contributions to cooperative game theory. Biography Elena Yanovskaya was born in Leningrad on May 20, 1938. She studied at the School of Mathematics and Mechanics of the Leningrad State University majoring in probability theory and statistics. After graduation in 1959, she started working as a junior researcher at the Leningrad Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics, where she worked until 1965. Yanovskaya defended her doctoral thesis in 1964. From 1965 to 1975, Yanovskaya worked at the Leningrad branc...

#4145

Susan Hermiller

#72041

Overall Influence

Susan Marie Hermiller is an American mathematician specializing in the computational, combinatorial, and geometric theory of groups. She is a Willa Cather Professor of Mathematics and a former Graduate Chair for Mathematics at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

#4146

Nicholas Wald

#74310

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Sir Nicholas John Wald FRS, FRCP, FMedSci, qualified in medicine from University College London in 1967. He is currently honorary professor of preventive medicine, University College London, honorary professor, Population Health Research Institute, St George's, University of London, visiting professor, University of Oxford, and honorary consultant and adjunct professor, Brown University, Rhode Island. He was professor of environmental and preventive medicine from 1983 to 2019 at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. He was co-founder and director of the Wolfson Institute of Pr...

#4147

Jeannette Janssen

#68123

Overall Influence

Jeannette Catharina Maria Janssen is a Dutch and Canadian mathematician whose research concerns graph theory and the theory of complex networks. She is a professor of mathematics at Dalhousie University, the chair of the Dalhousie Department of Mathematics and Statistics, and the chair of the Activity Group on Discrete Mathematics of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

#4148

Lawrence Sirovich

Lawrence Sirovich

#74640

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (91 years)

Lawrence Sirovich is mathematical scientist whose research includes, among other topics, applied mathematics, neuroscience and physics. He is recognized as the pioneer behind modern face recognition, and is known for eigenfaces, the method of snapshots, low dimensional dynamical systems, analysis of the US Supreme Court, neuronal population dynamics, and the faithful copy neuron.

#4149

Scott R. Kirkpatrick

#86405

Overall Influence

#4150

Steve Shnider

#82554

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Steve Shnider is a retired professor of mathematics at Bar Ilan University. He received a PhD in Mathematics from Harvard University in 1972, under Shlomo Sternberg. His main interests are in the differential geometry of fiber bundles; algebraic methods in the theory of deformation of geometric structures; symplectic geometry; supersymmetry; operads; and Hopf algebras. He retired in 2014.

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