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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#4501

Atsuko Miyaji

#69214

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Atsuko Miyaji is a Japanese cryptographer and number theorist known for her research on elliptic-curve cryptography and software obfuscation. She is a professor in the Division of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering, at Osaka University.

#4502

Alan Agresti

#81723

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Alan Gilbert Agresti is an American statistician and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Florida. He has written several textbooks on categorical data analysis that are considered seminal in the field.

#4503

Nathalie Wahl

#86125

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (49 years)

Nathalie Wahl is a Belgian mathematician specializing in topology, including algebraic topology, homotopy theory, and geometric topology. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Copenhagen, where she directs the Copenhagen Center for Geometry and Topology.

#4504

Frank W. J. Olver

Frank W. J. Olver

#52370

Overall Influence

1924 - 2013 (89 years)

Frank William John Olver was a professor of mathematics at the Institute for Physical Science and Technology and Department of Mathematics at the University of Maryland who worked on asymptotic analysis, special functions, and numerical analysis. He was the editor in chief of the NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions.

#4505

André Berger

#46534

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

André Léon Georges Chevalier Berger is a Belgian climatologist and professor. He is best known for his significant contribution to the renaissance and further development of the astronomical theory of paleoclimates and as a cited pioneer of the interdisciplinary study of climate dynamics and history.

#4506

Michelle L. Wachs

Michelle L. Wachs

#55966

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

Michelle Lynn Wachs is an American mathematician who specializes in algebraic combinatorics and works as a professor of mathematics at the University of Miami. Contributions Wachs and her advisor Adriano Garsia are the namesakes of the Garsia–Wachs algorithm for optimal binary search trees, which they published in 1977. She is also known for her research on shellings for simplicial complexes, partially ordered sets, and Coxeter groups, and on random permutation statistics and set partition statistics.

#4507

Sarah Rees

#85627

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (68 years)

Sarah Elizabeth Rees is Professor of Pure Mathematics at Newcastle University. Her focus of research is on geometrical, combinatorial and computational aspects of group theory. Rees obtained her Ph.D. in 1983 from the University of Oxford. Her dissertation, supervised by Peter Cameron, was On Diagram Geometry.

#4508

Dennis Hejhal

#86861

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

Dennis Arnold Hejhal is an American mathematician. In his mathematical research he frequently uses extensive computer calculation. In 1967, as a college freshman, Hejhal scored among the top 5 in the U.S. in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. Hejhal graduated from the University of Chicago in 1970 with a bachelor's degree and from Stanford University in 1972 with a PhD in mathematics under the direction of Menahem Max Schiffer. He became an assistant professor at Harvard in 1972, then in 1974 an associate professor at Columbia University and starting in 1978 a professor at the University of Minnesota.

#4509

Amanda Folsom

#78288

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (46 years)

Amanda L. Folsom is an American mathematician specializing in analytic number theory and its applications in combinatorics. She is a professor of mathematics at Amherst College, where she chairs the department of mathematics and statistics.

#4510

Anthony Hilton

#71626

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (84 years)

Anthony J. W. Hilton is a British mathematician specializing in combinatorics and graph theory. His current positions are as emeritus professor of Combinatorial Mathematics at the University of Reading and professorial research fellow at Queen Mary College, University of London.

#4511

Olle Häggström

#32022

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (58 years)

Olle Häggström is a professor of mathematical statistics at Chalmers University of Technology. Häggström earned his doctorate in 1994 at Chalmers University of Technology with Jeffrey Steif as supervisor. He became an associate professor in the same university in 1997, and professor of mathematical statistics at University of Gothenburg in 2000. In 2002 he was back at Chalmers University of Technology as professor. He mainly researches on probability theory such as Markov chains, percolation theory and other models in statistical mechanics.

#4512

Harold Taylor

#88280

Overall Influence

1907 - 1995 (88 years)

Harold McCarter Taylor, was a New Zealand-born British mathematician, theoretical physicist and academic administrator, but is best known as a historian of architecture and the author, with his first wife Joan Taylor, née Sills, of the three volumes of Anglo-Saxon Architecture, published between 1965 and 1978.

#4513

Ramon E. Moore

#67665

Overall Influence

1929 - 2015 (86 years)

Ramon Edgar Moore was an American mathematician, known for his pioneering work in the field of interval arithmetic. Moore received an AB degree in physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1950, and a PhD in mathematics from Stanford University in 1963. His early career included work on the earliest computers . He was awarded the Humboldt Research Award for U.S. senior scientists twice, in 1975 and 1980.

#4514

Kiyoshi Igusa

#85706

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (76 years)

Kiyoshi Igusa is a Japanese-American mathematician and a professor at Brandeis University. He works in representation theory and topology. Education and career He studied at the University of Chicago and Princeton University, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1979, under the direction of Allen Hatcher.

#4515

Renate Tobies

#75568

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Renate A. Tobies is a German mathematician and historian of mathematics known for her biographies of Felix Klein and Iris Runge. Education and career Tobies grew up in East Germany, and studied mathematics and chemistry at Leipzig University. She completed a doctoral dissertation on the history of chemistry education, Die Entwicklung des allgemeinbildenden Chemieunterrichts auf dem Gebiet der DDR unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der ideologischen Erziehung , there in 1975. After briefly teaching pharmacy, she took a position in Leipzig's Institute for the History of Medicine and Natural Sciences, specializing in the history of mathematics.

#4516

Attilio Meucci

#57945

Overall Influence

Attilio Meucci is an Italian statistician and financial engineer, who specializes in quantitative risk management and quantitative portfolio management. Education Attilio Meucci earned a BA in Physics from the University of Milan, an MA in Economics from Bocconi University, and a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Milan.

#4517

Paul Vitányi

#45835

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (81 years)

Paul Michael Béla Vitányi is a Dutch computer scientist, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Amsterdam and researcher at the Dutch Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica. Biography Vitányi was born in Budapest to a Dutch mother and a Hungarian father. He received his degree of mathematical engineer from Delft University of Technology in 1971 and his Ph.D. from the Free University of Amsterdam in 1978.

#4518

Grégory Miermont

Grégory Miermont

#78296

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (46 years)

Grégory Miermont is a French mathematician working on probability, random trees and random maps. Biography After high school, Miermont trained for two years at Classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles at the end of which he was admitted at the École normale supérieure in Paris. He studied there from 1998 to 2002, spending the 2001–2002 year as a visiting student in Berkeley. He received his doctorate at Pierre and Marie Curie University in 2003, under the supervision of Jean Bertoin. Then, he became a CNRS researcher in 2004 at University of Paris-Sud and École normale supérieure, and was promoted to the rank of professor in 2009.

#4519

Johanna Weber

#12456

Overall Influence

1910 - 2014 (104 years)

Johanna Weber was a German-born British mathematician and aerodynamicist. She is best known for her contributions to the development of the Handley Page Victor bomber and the Concorde. Early life Johanna Weber was born in a family of Walloon origin in Düsseldorf, Germany, on August 8, 1910. Her father died in the First World War. As a 'war orphan', Weber was eligible for financial support, and she attended a convent school.

#4520

William Yslas Vélez

#85370

Overall Influence

William "Bill" Yslas Vélez is an American mathematician, a current Emeritus Professor at the University of Arizona, and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. From 1992–96, Vélez served as the president of Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science .

#4521

Peter Topping

#79796

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (54 years)

Peter Topping is a British mathematician working in geometric analysis. He obtained his PhD in 1997 at the University of Warwick under the supervision of Mario Joseph Micallef. He is currently Professor at the University of Warwick.

#4522

Sandra Arlinghaus

#65912

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (82 years)

Sandra Lach Arlinghaus is an American educator who is adjunct professor in the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan. Her research concerns mathematical geography.

#4523

Roberto Bachi

#52403

Overall Influence

1909 - 1995 (86 years)

Roberto Bachi was an Italian-Israeli statistician and demographer, and founder of the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. His research focused on the graphical presentation of statistics and the renewal of Jewish demographic studies in the diaspora.

#4524

Jens Erik Fenstad

#64481

Overall Influence

1935 - 2020 (85 years)

Jens Erik Fenstad was a Norwegian mathematician. Fenstad graduated as mag.scient. from the University of Oslo in 1959, and worked as a research fellow there and at UC Berkeley. He was a professor at the University of Oslo from 1968 to 2003, except for the years 1989 to 1993, when he was vice rector . On 29 May 1998 Fensted received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Science and Technology at Uppsala University, Sweden. He served in the Executive Committee of the Division for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science as...

#4525

Des MacHale

#55082

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (79 years)

Desmond MacHale is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at University College Cork, Ireland. He is an author and speaker on several subjects, including George Boole, lateral thinking puzzles, and humour. He has published over 80 books, some of which have been translated into languages including Danish, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, German, Korean, and Japanese.

#4526

Annalisa Buffa

#65164

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (52 years)

Annalisa Buffa is an Italian mathematician, specializing in numerical analysis and partial differential equations . She is a professor of mathematics at EPFL and holds the Chair of Numerical Modeling and Simulation.

#4527

Vyjayanthi Chari

#83560

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (67 years)

Vyjayanthi Chari is an Indian–American Distinguished Professor and the F. Burton Jones Endowed Chair for Pure Mathematics at the University of California, Riverside, known for her research in representation theory and quantum algebra. In 2015 she was elected as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

#4528

Alexander Skopin

#91710

Overall Influence

1927 - 2003 (76 years)

Alexander Ivanovich Skopin was a Russian mathematician known for his contributions to abstract algebra. Biography Skopin was born on October 22, 1927, in Leningrad, the son of Ivan Alexandrovich Skopin, who was himself also a number theorist and a student of Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, and who died in the Siege of Leningrad. After the war, Alexander Skopin studied at Leningrad University, where he was a student of Dmitry Faddeev; From that point to the end of his life, he worked as a researcher at the Steklov Mathematical Institute and taught algebra at the St. Petersburg University. He died on September 15, 2003, in St.

#4529

Gitta Kutyniok

#67936

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (53 years)

Gitta Kutyniok is a German applied mathematician known for her research in harmonic analysis, deep learning, compressed sensing, and image processing. She has a Bavarian AI Chair for "Mathematical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence" in the institute of mathematics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

#4530

Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi

#72100

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (50 years)

Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi is a Japanese graph theorist who works as a professor at the National Institute of Informatics and is known for his research on graph theory and graph algorithms. Kawarabayashi was born on May 22, 1975, in Tokyo. He earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Keio University in 1998, a master's degree from Keio in 2000, and a PhD from Keio in 2001, researching the Lovász–Woodall conjecture under the supervision of Katsuhiro Ota. After temporary positions at Vanderbilt University and under the supervision of Paul Seymour at Princeton University, he became an assistan...

#4531

Nikolai Kapitonovich Nikolski

#91751

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (85 years)

Nikolai Kapitonovich Nikolski is a Russian mathematician, specializing in real and complex analysis and functional analysis. Nikolski received in 1966 his Candidate of Sciences degree from the Leningrad State University under Viktor Khavin with thesis Invariant subspaces of certain compact operators . In 1973 he received his Doctor of Sciences degree . He was an academician at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics in Leningrad and taught at Leningrad State University. In the 1990s he became a professor at the University of Bordeaux.

#4532

Mary Leontius Schulte

#76272

Overall Influence

1901 - 2000 (99 years)

Sister Mary Leontius Schulte was an American nun, mathematics educator, and historian of mathematics. Life Schulte was born as Catherine Mary Schulte, on September 4, 1901, in Cleveland, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, in a large farming family descended from German immigrants. After finishing high school in Manitowoc, she began studying home economics at the College of Saint Teresa, but graduated in 1923 with a degree in chemistry and three minors including mathematics. She worked as a high school mathematics teacher in Minnesota from 1923 to 1928, taking vows as a nun in the Sisters of Saint F...

#4533

Sava Grozdev

#79290

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Sava Grozdev is a Bulgarian mathematician and educator. He currently holds positions as Professor in Mathematics and Professor in Mathematical Education. Biography Grozdev has PhD degree in mathematics and DSc degree in Pedagogical Sciences .

#4534

Hannah Markwig

#68090

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (45 years)

Hannah Markwig is a German mathematician specializing in tropical geometry. In 2010 she won both the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Helene Lange Prize for her research.

#4535

Anna C. Gilbert

#71301

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (53 years)

Anna Catherine Gilbert is an American mathematician who works as the Herman Goldstine Collegiate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan. She also holds a courtesy appointment in electrical engineering and computer science at Michigan. Her research expertise is in randomized algorithms for harmonic analysis, image processing, signal processing, and large data sets.

#4536

Uzi Vishne

#91183

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (53 years)

Uzi Vishne is Professor of Mathematics at Bar Ilan University, Israel. His main interests are division algebras, Gelfand–Kirillov dimension, Coxeter groups, Artin groups, combinatorial group theory, monomial algebras, and arithmetic of algebraic groups. He's been the dean of Exact Sciences since October 2021.

#4537

Mariolina Padula

#77477

Overall Influence

Mariarosaria Padula was an Italian mathematical physicist specializing in fluid dynamics, including free boundary problems and compressible flow with viscosity. She was a professor of mathematical physics at the University of Ferrara, and is also known for revitalizing and heading the university's mathematical journal, Annali dell’Università di Ferrara, and forging it into an internationally known journal.

#4538

Roland Carl Backhouse

Roland Carl Backhouse

#24409

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

Roland Carl Backhouse is a British computer scientist and mathematician. , he is Emeritus Professor of Computing Science at the University of Nottingham. Early life and education Backhouse was born and raised in the Thorntree district of Middlesbrough, an industrial town in the north-east of England. In 1959, he won a place at the then all-male Acklam Hall Grammar School before going on to Churchill College, Cambridge, in 1966. His doctorate was completed under the supervision of Jim Cunningham at Imperial College London.

#4539

Michael Healy

#19391

Overall Influence

1923 - 2016 (93 years)

Michael John Romer Healy was a British statistician known for his contributions to statistical computing, auxology, laboratory statistics and quality control, and methods for analysing longitudinal data, among other areas. He was professor of medical statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine from 1977 until his retirement. The Royal Statistical Society awarded him the Guy Medal in Silver in 1979 and Gold in 1999, and he also acted as chairman of its medical section. He was the author or co-author of three books and over 200 scientific papers.

#4540

Glenda Glover

#21756

Overall Influence

Glenda Baskin Glover, Ph.D, J.D., CPA, began serving as the eighth president of Tennessee State University on January 2, 2013. Early life and education Glover was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and was raised in the Weaver Road vicinity near Boxtown. She began her educational development as a student at Tennessee State University, where she majored in mathematics. After graduating with honors with a Bachelor of Science degree, she earned the Master of Business Administration at Clark Atlanta University in 1976. She completed her doctorate in business from George Washington University in 1990, a...

#4541

David Schoenfeld

#92051

Overall Influence

#4542

Ene-Margit Tiit

#61349

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (91 years)

Ene–Margit Tiit is an Estonian mathematician and statistician who became the founding president of the Estonian Statistical Society. Early life and education Tiit is the daughter of mathematician and was born in Tartu on 22 April 1934. She went to a high school in Tallinn and completed her undergraduate studies in 1957 at the University of Tartu, then called Tartu State University. She remained at the same university for her doctoral work, defending a dissertation on Ridade ümberjärjestamisest in 1963 with Gunnar Kangro as her doctoral supervisor.

#4543

Steve Butler

#78762

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (48 years)

Steven Kay Butler is an American mathematician specializing in graph theory and combinatorics. He is a Morrill Professor and the Barbara J. Janson Professor in Mathematics at Iowa State University. Education and career Butler earned his master's degree at Brigham Young University in 2003. His master's thesis was titled Bounding the Number of Graphs Containing Very Long Induced Paths. He completed a doctorate at the University of California, San Diego in 2008, authoring the dissertation Eigenvalues and Structures of Graphs, advised by Fan Chung. Upon completing his postdoctoral studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, Butler joined the Iowa State University faculty in 2011.

#4544

Daqing Wan

#76337

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (61 years)

Daqing Wan is a Chinese mathematician working in the United States. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in Seattle in 1991, under the direction of Neal Koblitz. Since 1997, he has been on the faculty of mathematics at the University of California at Irvine; he has also held visiting positions at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, Pennsylvania State University, the University of Rennes, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, California, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.

#4545

Pamela E. Harris

#55917

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (42 years)

Pamela Estephania Harris is a Mexican-American mathematician, educator and advocate for immigrants. She is currently an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was formerly an associate professor at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts and is co-founder of the online platform Lathisms. She is also an editor of the e-mentoring blog of the American Mathematical Society .

#4546

Derek Corneil

#61986

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

Derek Gordon Corneil is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist, a professor emeritus of computer science at the University of Toronto, and an expert in graph algorithms and graph theory. Life When he was leaving high school, Corneil was told by his English teacher that doing a degree in mathematics and physics was a bad idea, and that the best he could hope for was to go to a technical college. His interest in computer science began when, as an undergraduate student at Queens College, he heard that a computer was purchased by the London Life insurance company in London, Ontario, where his father worked.

#4547

Edward J. Hannan

#76311

Overall Influence

1921 - 1994 (73 years)

Edward James Hannan FAA FASSA was an Australian statistician who is the co-discoverer of the Hannan–Quinn information criterion. He studied at the University of Melbourne and completed a PhD at the Australian National University under the supervision of Patrick A. P. Moran.

#4548

Virginia A. Livolsi

#92248

Overall Influence

#4549

David J. Foulis

#77039

Overall Influence

1930 - 2018 (88 years)

David James Foulis was an American mathematician known for his research on the algebraic foundations of quantum mechanics. He spent much of his career at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, retiring in 1997 but continuing to be very active in mathematics as professor emeritus. He is the namesake of Foulis semigroups, an algebraic structure that he studied extensively under the alternative name of Baer *-semigroups.

#4550

Hugo Rossi

#68810

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (90 years)

Hugo E. Rossi is an American mathematician working in complex analysis. Rossi graduated from the City College of New York with bachelor's degree in 1956, and graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with the master's degree in 1957, and received a Ph.D. under the supervision of Isadore Singer in 1960 . In 1960 he became an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and in the same year at Princeton University. In 1963 he became an associate professor and a professor at Brandeis University in 1966. After 11 years at Brandeis and two years as the department chair...

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