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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#4201

Marguerite Frank

#13317

Overall Influence

1927 - Present (97 years)

Marguerite Straus Frank is a French-American mathematician who is a pioneer in convex optimization theory and mathematical programming. Education After attending secondary schooling in Paris and Toronto, Frank contributed largely to the fields of transportation theory and Lie algebras, which later became the topic of her PhD thesis, New Simple Lie Algebras. She was one of the first female PhD students in mathematics at Harvard University, completing her dissertation in 1956, with Abraham Adrian Albert as her advisor.

#4202

Mir Masoom Ali

#36659

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

Mir Masoom Ali is a Bangladeshi American statistician, Distinguished Professor, educator, researcher and author. He migrated to the United States in 1969 and became a naturalized citizen in 1981. Ali founded the graduate and undergraduate programs in statistics at Ball State University. He co-founded the Midwest Biopharmaceutical Statistics Workshop , held at Ball State University annually since 1978, and co-sponsored by the American Statistical Association. He served as editor and associate editor of several international statistical journals. He is the founding president of the North Am...

#4203

Giuseppe Melfi

#72664

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Giuseppe Melfi is an Italo-Swiss mathematician who works on practical numbers and modular forms. Career He gained his PhD in mathematics in 1997 at the University of Pisa. After some time spent at the University of Lausanne during 1997-2000, Melfi was appointed at the University of Neuchâtel, as well as at the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland and at the local University of Teacher Education.

#4204

David Fairlie

#81939

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (89 years)

David B. Fairlie is a British mathematician and theoretical physicist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Durham . He was educated in mathematical physics at the University of Edinburgh , and he earned a PhD at the University of Cambridge in 1960, under the supervision of John Polkinghorne. After postdoctoral training at Princeton University and Cambridge, he was lecturer in St. Andrews and at Durham University , retiring as Professor .

#4205

Fred van der Blij

Fred van der Blij

#85630

Overall Influence

1923 - 2018 (95 years)

Frederik van der Blij was a Dutch mathematician. From 1955 until his retirement in 1988 he was professor at the University of Utrecht. His research focused on number theory, among other fields. See also Van der Blij's lemma

#4206

Snezana Lawrence

#71379

Overall Influence

Snezana Lawrence is a Yugoslav and British historian of mathematics and a senior lecturer in mathematics and design engineering at Middlesex University. Education and career Lawrence is originally from Yugoslavia, of mixed Serbian and Jewish ancestry. She studied descriptive geometry at the University of Belgrade before moving to England in 1991 during the Breakup of Yugoslavia and ensuing Yugoslav Wars, and later becoming a naturalized British citizen. She earned her PhD from the Open University in 2002. Her dissertation, Geometry of Architecture and Freemasonry in 19th Century England, was ...

#4207

Maurice Sendak

#1178

Overall Influence

1928 - 2012 (84 years)

Maurice Bernard Sendak was an American author and illustrator of children's books. He became most widely known for his book Where the Wild Things Are, first published in 1963. Born to Polish-Jewish parents, his childhood was affected by the death of many of his family members during the Holocaust. Sendak also wrote works such as In the Night Kitchen, Outside Over There, and illustrated many works by other authors including the Little Bear books by Else Holmelund Minarik.

#4208

Stephen M. Watt

#38691

Overall Influence

Stephen M. Watt, a computer scientist and mathematician, is past Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Professor in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

#4209

François Lalonde

#75159

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

François Lalonde is a Canadian mathematician, specializing in symplectic geometry and symplectic topology. Lalonde received from the Université de Montréal in 1976, at the age of 20, his bachelor's degree in physics and, after a year to complete the bachelor in mathematics in 1977, he received in 1979 his master's degree in logic and theoretical computer science . In 1985 he received his doctorate in mathematics from the Université de Paris-Saclay in Orsay becoming one of the rare candidates obtaining the Doctorat d'Etat before the age of thirty. He then was an NSERC University Research F...

#4210

Mary Pugh

#59710

Overall Influence

Mary Claire Pugh is an applied mathematician known for her research on thin films, including the thin-film equation and Hele-Shaw flow. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Toronto.

#4211

Xhezair Teliti

#83074

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Xhezair Teliti is a professor of mathematics and has served as chief of the Department of Mathematics at Tirana University since 2008. He was Albania's Minister of Education from 1993-1996. Career His field of study is Functional Analysis and Theory of Mass and Integration. Teliti is author of many text-books:"Teoria e Funksioneve te Variablit Real, I, II", 1980, Tirana;"Përgjithësimi i Konceptit të Integrali", 1981;"Teoria Konstruktive e Funksioneve", P. Pilika, Xh. Teliti – 1984;"Përmbledhje Problemash në Analizën Funksional", 1989, Tirana;"Probleme dhe Ushtrime të Analizës Matematike

#4212

Anita Layton

#64864

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Anita T. Layton is an applied mathematician who applies methods from computational mathematics and partial differential equations to model kidney function. She presently holds a Canada 150 Research Chair in Mathematical Biology and Medicine at the University of Waterloo. She is also a professor in the university's Department of Applied Mathematics. She joined the Waterloo faculty in 2018. Previously, she was the Robert R. & Katherine B. Penn Professor of Mathematics at Duke University, where she also held appointments in the department of biomedical engineering and the department of medicine.

#4213

Gabriella Pinzari

#65584

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Gabriella Pinzari is an Italian mathematician known for her research on the -body problem. Research Pinzari's research on the -body problem has been described as "the most natural way to apply" the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem to the problem. The original work of Vladimir Arnold on this theorem attempted to use it to show the stability of the Solar System or similar systems of planetary orbits, but this worked only for the three-body problem because of a degeneracy in Arnold's mathematical framework. Pinzari showed how to eliminate this problem, and extended the solution to larger numbers o...

#4214

Leiki Loone

#72008

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Leiki Loone , is an Estonian mathematician specialising in applications of functional analysis in theory of summability and in the structure theory of topological vector spaces. She is married to Estonian philosopher Eero Loone. The couple have two daughters.

#4215

Anna Skripka

#73602

Overall Influence

Anna Skripka is a Ukrainian-American mathematician whose research topics include noncommutative analysis and probability. She is a professor at the University of New Mexico. Education and career Skripka did her undergraduate studies at the V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University in Ukraine. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Missouri. After working as a visiting assistant professor at Texas A&M University and as an assistant professor at the University of Central Florida, she joined the University of New Mexico Department of Mathematics and Statistics in 2012, where she is currentl...

#4216

Alexander Molev

#82740

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Alexander Ivanovich Molev is a Russian-Australian mathematician. He completed his Ph.D. in 1986 under the supervision of Alexandre Kirillov at Moscow State University. He was awarded the Australian Mathematical Society Medal in 2001.

#4217

Colin Begg

#87214

Overall Influence

Colin B. Begg is a Scottish biostatistician and epidemiologist. He is an attending biostatistician at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. He serves as editor-in-chief of the journal Clinical Trials. He has conducted research on the role of BRCA genetic variants in the development of breast cancer, as well as racial disparities in cancer survival rates in the United States.

#4218

Vivien Kirk

#45153

Overall Influence

Vivien Kirk is a New Zealand mathematician who studies dynamical systems. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Auckland, where she also serves as associate dean, and was president of the New Zealand Mathematical Society for 2017–2019.

#4219

Tatiana Shubin

#73038

Overall Influence

Tatiana Shubin is a Soviet and American mathematician known for her work developing math circles, social structures for the mathematical enrichment of secondary-school students, especially among the Navajo and other Native American people. She is a professor of mathematics at San José State University in California.

#4220

Daphne L. Smith

#73495

Overall Influence

Daphne Letitia Smith was the first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , in 1985. She is the president of the National Alumnae Association of Spelman College, her alma mater, and a member of Spelman's Board of Trustees; in 2011 she was honored with the Alumnae Association's Hall of Fame Award, "the organization’s highest honor".

#4221

Bárbara M. Brizuela

#72852

Overall Influence

Bárbara M. Brizuela is an American mathematics educator, and an associate professor education at Tufts University. Education and career Brizuela was born in the United States, though raised in Argentina and Venezuela. She has an Ed.D from Harvard University where she studied under Eleanor Duckworth. Prior to that, she received a Master of Arts, General Studies in Education from Tufts and a Licenciada en Ciencias Pedagógicas and Licenciada en Psicopedagogía degrees from the Universidad de Belgrano. She was a Spencer Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education from 1997 until 2000 and a Roy E.

#4222

Kerry Landman

#71019

Overall Influence

Kerry Anne Landman is an Australian applied mathematician, known for her cross-disciplinary research. Over her research career she established and led collaborations across engineering, industry and biological fields. In 2007, she became the first woman professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne. She retired in 2015 and is now an Emeritus Professor at the University of Melbourne.

#4223

Nick Woodhouse

#53941

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

The Honourable Nicholas Michael John Woodhouse is a British mathematician. He is Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College, University of Oxford and former President of the Clay Mathematics Institute. Education and early life Woodhouse is the younger son and second child of Christopher Montague Woodhouse, 5th Baron Terrington, and Lady Davidema Bulwer-Lytton. He was educated at Winchester College, then the University of Oxford and King's College London. He completed his undergraduate degree in Mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford in 1970 and PhD at the University of London, King's College in 1973, where he subsequently held an SRC Fellowship.

#4224

Christopher Bronk Ramsey

#75444

Overall Influence

Christopher Bronk Ramsey is a British physicist, mathematician and specialist in radiocarbon dating. He is a professor at the University of Oxford and was the Director of the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art from 2014 until 2019. He is a member of Merton College, Oxford and a Bodley Fellow. His doctorate, completed in 1987, included the first successful implementation of carbon dioxide gas as a target for radiocarbon dating via accelerator mass spectrometry.

#4225

Mark D. McDonnell

#52538

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Mark Damian McDonnell is an electronic engineer and mathematician, notable for his work on stochastic resonance and more specifically suprathreshold stochastic resonance. Education McDonnell graduated from the Salesian College, Adelaide. He received a BSc in Mathematical & Computer Sciences , a BE in Electrical & Electronic Engineering , and a BSc in Applied Mathematics all from The University of Adelaide, Australia. He received his PhD in Electrical & Electronic Engineering , under Derek Abbott and Charles E. M. Pearce, also from the University of Adelaide, for a thesis entitled Theoretical Aspects of Stochastic Signal Quantisation and Suprathreshold Stochastic Resonance.

#4226

Irene Sciriha

#73517

Overall Influence

Irene Sciriha Aquilina is a Maltese mathematician specializing in spectral graph theory and chemical graph theory. A particular topic of her research has been the singular graphs, graphs whose adjacency matrix is a singular matrix, and the nut graphs, singular graphs all of whose nontrivial induced subgraphs are non-singular. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Malta.

#4227

Josip Globevnik

Josip Globevnik

#49047

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Josip Globevnik is a Slovenian mathematician, born December 6, 1945 in Ljubljana, Slovenia . Globevnik graduated in 1968 and obtained his PhD in 1972 at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technology of University of Ljubljana. He worked on the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geodesy between 1969 and 1988, also as an associate professor and professor of mathematics . From 1988 on he taught as a professor of mathematical analysis in the FNT and later the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics.

#4228

Nüzhet Gökdoğan

#16615

Overall Influence

1910 - 2003 (93 years)

Hatice Nüzhet Gökdoğan was a Turkish astronomer, mathematician and academic. After studying mathematics and astronomy in France as a young adult, Gökdoğan joined the faculty of Istanbul University in 1934 and completed her PhD. She was elected Dean of the university's Faculty of Science in 1954, becoming the first Turkish woman to serve as a university dean, and she was later made Chair of the astronomy department, significantly expanding her department's capacity and working to improve national and international collaboration between astronomers.

#4229

Paul Chernoff

#78336

Overall Influence

1942 - 2017 (75 years)

Paul Robert Chernoff was an American mathematician, specializing in functional analysis and the mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics. He is known for Chernoff's Theorem, a mathematical result in the Feynman path integral formulation of quantum mechanics.

#4230

Anne-Sophie Kaloghiros

#73904

Overall Influence

Anne-Sophie Kaloghiros is a mathematics researcher in algebraic geometry and reader in Mathematics at Brunel University London. Kaloghiros was awarded the London Mathematical Society Emmy Noether Fellowship in 2020.

#4231

Caroline Colijn

Caroline Colijn

#68625

Overall Influence

Caroline Colijn is a Canadian mathematician and epidemiologist. She holds a Canada 150 Research Chair in Mathematics for Evolution, Infection and Public Health at Simon Fraser University . Early life and education Colijn earned her undergraduate degree from the University of British Columbia before enrolling at York University for her Master's degree in environmental studies and the University of Waterloo for her PhD. She completed her post-doctoral training with Michael Mackey at McGill University and later studied epidemiology with Megan Murray at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Heal...

#4232

David Ginzburg

#24358

Overall Influence

David Ginzburg is a professor of mathematics at Tel Aviv University working in number theory and automorphic forms. Career Ginzburg received his PhD in mathematics from Tel Aviv University in 1988 under the supervision of Stephen Gelbart. He is a professor of mathematics at Tel Aviv University.

#4233

Geert Molenberghs

#87382

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

#4234

Gilles Lebeau

#66704

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Gilles Lebeau is a French mathematician born on 17 November 1954, professor at the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis , member of the Institut universitaire de France and member of the Académie des sciences .

#4235

Rosemary Renaut

#73089

Overall Influence

Rosemary Anne Renaut is a British and American computational mathematician whose research interests include inverse problems and regularization with applications to medical imaging and seismic analysis. She is a professor in the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at Arizona State University.

#4236

Andrew Vázsonyi

#62811

Overall Influence

1916 - 2003 (87 years)

Andrew Vázsonyi , also known as Endre Weiszfeld and Zepartzatt Gozinto Biography Endre Weiszfeld was born on November 4, 1916, the middle son of a Jewish family in Budapest, where his father was the owner of a shoe store. At age 14, he met and befriended Paul Erdős , and at age 16, he began working on the geometric median problem for which he would later publish a solution. He studied at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest, from which he earned a doctorate in 1936. His thesis, on higher-dimensional surfaces, was supervised by Lipót Fejér. Because of increasing discrimination agai...

#4237

Mohamed Amine Khamsi

#68178

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Mohamed Amine Khamsi is an American/Moroccan mathematician. His research interests include nonlinear functional analysis, the fixed point theory and metric spaces. In particular, he has made notable contributions to the fixed point theory of metric spaces. He graduated from the prestigious École Polytechnique in 1983 after attending the equally prestigious Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, France. He completed his PhD, entitled "La propriété du point fixe dans les espaces de Banach et les espaces Metriques", at the Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University in May 1987 under the supervision of Gilles Godefroy.

#4238

Mary Wynne Warner

#66666

Overall Influence

1932 - 1998 (66 years)

Mary Wynne Warner was a Welsh mathematician, specializing in fuzzy mathematics. Her obituary in the Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society noted that fuzzy topology was "the field in which she was one of the pioneers and recognized as one of the leading figures for the past thirty years."

#4239

Jennifer Switkes

#72776

Overall Influence

Jennifer Switkes is a Canadian-American applied mathematician interested in mathematical modeling and operations research, and also known for her volunteer work teaching mathematics in prisons. She is an associate professor of mathematics at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona , where she is associate chair of the mathematics department.

#4240

Angela Slavova

#71032

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Angela Slavova is a Bulgarian applied mathematician. She heads the Department of Mathematical Physics in the Institute of Mathematics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and is former chair of the Bulgarian section of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

#4241

Jason Rosenhouse

#67917

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Jason Rosenhouse is an American author and professor of mathematics at James Madison University, where he was originally appointed an assistant professor in 2003. He became a full professor in 2014. His research focuses on algebraic graph theory, as well as analytic number theory. He ran the blog Evolution Blog at National Geographic's ScienceBlogs, where he frequently criticized creationism. In late 2016 he announced that he was abandoning the blogging format. He has contributed to the pro-evolution blog The Panda's Thumb, and has also contributed to the Huffington Post about topics such as t...

#4242

Victor Flynn

#40246

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Eugene Victor Flynn is an American-born mathematician. He is currently a professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford. Biography Flynn was born in Washington, D.C., the son of academic James Flynn who took up a position at the University of Otago. He first studied at the University of Otago, before taking a PhD at Trinity College, Cambridge, supervised by J. W. S. Cassels. He then spent a year as an assistant professor at the University of Michigan, returning to Cambridge as a research fellow at Robinson College. He then moved to the University of Liverpool, including four years as head of the pure mathematics department there.

#4243

Jane Hutton

#38133

Overall Influence

Jane Luise Hutton is a British medical statistician. Her research interests include meta-analysis, survival analysis, and ethics in mathematics, and she has participated in highly-cited studies on autism and cerebral palsy. She is a professor of statistics at the University of Warwick. She also frequently visits the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences in South Africa as a volunteer statistics instructor.

#4244

David Gottlieb

#77199

Overall Influence

1944 - 2008 (64 years)

David Gottlieb was an Israeli mathematician. Biography David Gottlieb was born in Tel Aviv. He received his PhD in 1972 from the Department of Mathematics at Tel Aviv University under the guidance of Saul Abarbanel. He was a professor of applied mathematics at Brown from 1985 until his death.

#4245

Julia F. Knight

Julia F. Knight

#61936

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Julia Frandsen Knight is an American mathematician, specializing in model theory and computability theory. She is the Charles L. Huisking Professor of Mathematics at the University of Notre Dame and director of the graduate program in mathematics there.

#4246

John Malcolm Elliott

#87664

Overall Influence

#4247

Peter Green

#61301

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Peter James Green, FRS is a British Bayesian statistician. He is Emeritus Professor and Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, and a professor at the University of Technology, Sydney. He is distinguished for his contributions to computational statistics, in particular his contributions to spatial statistics and semi-parametric regression models and also his development of reversible-jump Markov chain Monte Carlo.

#4248

Arleigh Burke

#2521

Overall Influence

1901 - 1996 (95 years)

Arleigh Albert Burke was an admiral of the United States Navy who distinguished himself during World War II and the Korean War, and who served as Chief of Naval Operations during the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations.

#4249

Sara Lombardo

#72193

Overall Influence

Sara Lombardo is an Italian applied mathematician whose research topics include nonlinear dynamics, rogue waves and solitons, integrable systems, and automorphic Lie algebras. She is Executive Dean of the School of Mathematical & Computer Sciences at Heriot-Watt University. Previously she was professor of mathematics at Loughborough University, and associate dean with teaching responsibilities.

#4250

Zdeněk Dvořák

#77138

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (43 years)

Zdeněk Dvořák is a Czech mathematician specializing in graph theory. Dvořák was born in Nové Město na Moravě. He competed on the Czech national team in the 1999 International Mathematical Olympiad, and in the same year in the International Olympiad in Informatics, where he won a gold medal. He earned his Ph.D. in 2007 from Charles University in Prague, under the supervision of Jaroslav Nešetřil. He remained as a research fellow at Charles University until 2010, and then did postdoctoral studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Simon Fraser University. He then returned to the Compute...

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