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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#4601

Catherine Sulem

#86135

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (68 years)

Catherine Sulem is a mathematician and violinist at the University of Toronto. She has completed a monograph "Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation: Self-Focusing Instability and Wave Collapse" together with her brother Pierre-Louis Sulem, which appears in applied Mathematical Sciences.

#4602

Rolf Rannacher

#72993

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

Rolf Rannacher is a German mathematician and a professor of numerical analysis at Heidelberg University. Rannacher studied mathematics and physics at the Goethe University Frankfurt. There he received his doctorate in 1974 with dissertation Diskrete Störungstheorie für das Punktsystem linearer Operatoren und Sesquilinearformen mit Anwendungen auf Operatoren vom Schrödinger Typ . From 1974 to 1980 he was an assistant to at the University of Bonn, where he habilitated in 1978 and after habilitation spent a year at the University of Michigan. He was from 1980 to 1983 a professor at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg and from 1983 to 1988 a professor at Saarland University.

#4603

Siegfried Gottwald

Siegfried Gottwald

#37011

Overall Influence

1943 - 2015 (72 years)

Siegfried Johannes Gottwald was a German mathematician, logician and historian of science. Life and work Gottwald was born in Limbach, Saxony in 1943. From 1961 to 1966, he studied mathematics at the University of Leipzig, where he was awarded his doctor title in 1969 and his habilitation in 1977.

#4604

John Stembridge

#82661

Overall Influence

John Stembridge is a Professor of Mathematics at University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985 under the direction of Richard P. Stanley. His dissertation was called Combinatorial Decompositions of Characters of SL.

#4605

Victor Batyrev

#86248

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

Victor Vadimovich Batyrev is a Russian mathematician, specializing in algebraic and arithmetic geometry and its applications to mathematical physics. He is a professor at the University of Tübingen.

#4606

Joseph R. Shoenfield

#39328

Overall Influence

1927 - 2000 (73 years)

Joseph Robert Shoenfield was an American mathematical logician. Education Shoenfield obtained his PhD in 1953 with Raymond Louis Wilder at the University of Michigan . Career From 1952, he lectured at Duke University, where he remained until becoming emeritus in 1992. From 1970 to 1973 he was president of the mathematics faculty. In 1956/57 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study. Shoenfield worked on recursion theory, model theory and axiomatic set theory. His textbook on mathematical logic has become a classic.

#4607

Charles Kam-tai Chui

#93741

Overall Influence

#4608

Marta Bunge

#69941

Overall Influence

1938 - 2022 (84 years)

Marta Cavallo Bunge was an Argentine-Canadian mathematician specializing in category theory, and known for her work on synthetic calculus of variations and synthetic differential topology. She was a professor emeritus at McGill University.

#4609

Richard A. Larson

#93746

Overall Influence

#4610

Véronique Cortier

#68565

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Véronique Cortier is a French mathematician and computer scientist specializing in cryptography. Her research has applied mathematical logic in the formal verification of cryptographic protocols, and has included the development of secure electronic voting systems. She has also contributed to the public dissemination of knowledge about cryptography through a sequence of posts on the binaire blog of Le Monde. She is a director of research with CNRS, associated with the Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications at the University of Lorraine in Nancy.

#4611

Anton Formann

#28832

Overall Influence

1949 - 2010 (61 years)

Anton K. Formann was an Austrian research psychologist, statistician, and psychometrician. He is renowned for his contributions to item response theory , latent class analysis, the measurement of change, mixture models, categorical data analysis, and quantitative methods for research synthesis .

#4612

Wolfgang Rautenberg

Wolfgang Rautenberg

#39823

Overall Influence

1936 - 2011 (75 years)

Wolfgang Rautenberg was a German mathematician and logician whose areas of research were model theory, non-classical logic, modal logic, temporal logic and self reference. Life Rautenberg was born in Potsdam. He graduated with an abitur from the gymnasium in Ludwigslust. He studied mathematics and physics at the Humboldt University in East Berlin , and there in 1963 Rautenberg received a doctorate and worked as a logician. In 1968 Rautenberg graduated from the Humboldt University as an academic lecturer. From 1969 to 1973 Rautenberg was docent at the Humboldt University. Because the Stasi con...

#4613

Derek W. Robinson

#72454

Overall Influence

1935 - 2021 (86 years)

Derek William Robinson was a British-Australian theoretical mathematician and physicist. He was a researcher at the Australian National University. Early life Derek W. Robinson was born in southern England. He attended grammar school followed by the University of Oxford where he earned a Bachelor of Arts with honours in mathematics in 1957 and a PhD in nuclear physics in 1960 with the dissertation, Multiple Coulomb Excitations in Deformed Nuclei. His PhD advisor was David M. Brink.

#4614

Zhongwei Shen

#93881

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Zhongwei Shen is a Chinese-American mathematician, currently a Distinguished Professor at University of Kentucky and a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. Shen received his B.S. in mathematics from Peking University in 1982 at the age of 18. He has been a visiting scholar at Lanzhou University's School of Mathematics and Statistics on various occasions since 2007. He was named a Changjiang Scholar of Lanzhou University in 2015.

#4615

Jeremy Avigad

#47580

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (57 years)

Jeremy Avigad is a professor of philosophy and a professor of mathematical sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. He received a B.A. in mathematics from Harvard University in 1989, and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1995 under the supervision of Jack Silver. He has contributed to the areas of mathematical logic and foundations, formal verification and interactive theorem proving, and the philosophy and history of mathematics. He became Director of the Hoskinson Center for Formal Mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University after Charles Hoskinson donated...

#4616

Arthur Bartels

#92665

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (54 years)

Arthur Bartels is a German mathematician. After completing his Abitur in Wiesbaden and then Zivildienst , Bartels studied mathematics from 1992 at the University of Mainz and the University of Manchester with Diplom in Mainz in 1997 under Matthias Kreck with Diplom thesis Morsetheorie und Faserbündel über den Kreis . Bartels received his PhD in 1999 under the direction of Peter Teichner at the University of California, San Diego with doctoral thesis Link homotopy in codimension 2. As a postdoc Bartels was at the University of Münster, where he habilitated in 2005 and was an assistant. He beca...

#4617

Jacqueline Meulman

Jacqueline Meulman

#57858

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Jacqueline Meulman is a Dutch statistician and professor emerita of Applied Statistics at the Mathematical Institute of Leiden University. Biography Born in The Hague, Meulman received her master's degree in mathematical psychology and data theory at Leiden University in 1981, and obtained her PhD in data theory in 1986 with the thesis entitled "A distance approach to nonlinear multivariate analysis" advised by Jan de Leeuw and John P. van de Geer. She was a consultant for Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ, from 1982 to 1983.

#4618

Haya Freedman

#79578

Overall Influence

1923 - 2005 (82 years)

Haya Freedman was a Polish-born Israeli mathematician known for her research on the Tamari lattice and on ring theory, and as "an exceptionally gifted teacher" of mathematics at the London School of Economics.

#4619

Galina Matvievskaya

#82926

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (95 years)

Galina Pavlovna Matviyevskaya is a Soviet-Russian historian of mathematics, and university teacher. In 1974, she won the Biruni State Prize. Life Matviyevskaya attended school in Kharkov and in Chkalov. She graduated in 1948 with a gold medal. She graduated from the University of Leningrad, in 1954, and the Leningrad Department of the Moscow Institute of History of Science and Technology, in 1959. She studied unpublished manuscripts by Leonhard Euler on number theory.

#4620

Ana Maria Cuervo

Ana Maria Cuervo

#47765

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (59 years)

Ana Maria Cuervo is a Spanish-American physician, researcher, and cell biologist. She is a professor in developmental and molecular miology, anatomy and structural biology, and medicine and co-director of the Institute for Aging Studies at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She is best known for her research work on autophagy, the process by which cells recycle waste products, and its changes in aging and age-related diseases.

#4621

Antonia Ferrín Moreiras

#37692

Overall Influence

1914 - 2009 (95 years)

Antonia Ferrín Moreiras was a mathematician, professor and the first female Galician astronomer. Her main contributions to astronomy were works on stellar occultations by the moon, measures of double stars and astrometric measurements, as well as the determination of the passage of stars through two verticals. She accomplished all of this while she was working at the Observatory of the University of Santiago de Compostela .

#4622

Alexander Nagel

#54053

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Alexander Joseph Nagel is an American mathematician, specializing in harmonic analysis, functions of several complex variables, and linear partial differential equations. Biography He received in 1966 from Harvard University his bachelor's degree and in 1971 from Columbia University his PhD under the supervision of Lipman Bers with thesis Sheaves of Holomorphic Functions with Boundary Conditions and Sheaf Cohomology in Banach Algebras. At the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Nagel was from 1970 to 1972 an instructor, from 1972 to 1974 an assistant professor, from 1974 to 1977 an associate professor, and from 1977 to 2012 a full professor, retiring in December 2012 as professor emeritus.

#4623

Robert Liptser

#43135

Overall Influence

1936 - 2019 (83 years)

Robert Sh. Liptser was a Russian-Israeli mathematician who made contributions to the theory and applications of stochastic processes, in particular to martingales, stochastic control and nonlinear filtering.

#4624

Paul Harry Roberts

#94136

Overall Influence

#4625

Leonard Gillman

#83319

Overall Influence

1917 - 2009 (92 years)

Leonard E. Gillman was an American mathematician, emeritus professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He was also an accomplished classical pianist. Biography Early life and education Gillman was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1917. His family moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1922. It was there that he started taking piano lessons at age six. They moved to New York City in 1926, and he began intensive training as a pianist. Upon graduation from high school in 1933, Gillman won a fellowship to the Juilliard Graduate School of Music.

#4626

Robert Evert Stong

#83808

Overall Influence

1936 - 2008 (72 years)

Robert Evert Stong was a mathematician at the University of Virginia who proved the Hattori–Stong theorem. Early life and education Stong received a B.A. and M.A. in mathematics at the University of Oklahoma. He received a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Chicago in 1962. His Ph.D. dissertation, Some relations among characteristic classes and numbers, was written under the supervision of Richard Lashof. He served on active duty with the United States Army Reserves from 1962 to 1965 and was stationed at Fort Benjamin Harrison and the Pentagon. He worked on computer development and r...

#4627

Endel John Orav

#94169

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (70 years)

#4628

Patricia Clark Kenschaft

#56891

Overall Influence

1940 - 2022 (82 years)

Patricia Clark Kenschaft was an American mathematician. She was a professor of mathematics at Montclair State University. She is known as a prolific author of books on mathematics, as a founder of PRIMES, the Project for Resourceful Instruction of Mathematics in the Elementary School, and for her work for equity and diversity in mathematics.

#4629

Ailsa Land

#37491

Overall Influence

1927 - 2021 (94 years)

Ailsa Horton Land was a Professor of Operational Research in the Department of Management at the London School of Economics and was the first woman professor of Operational Research in Britain. She is most well-known for co-defining the branch and bound algorithm along with Alison Doig whilst carrying out research at the London School of Economics in 1960. She was married to Frank Land, who is an Emeritus Professor at the LSE.

#4630

Ravindra Khattree

#22036

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

Ravindra Khattree is an Indian-American statistician and a distinguished professor of statistics at Oakland University and a co-director of the Center for Data Science and Big Data Analytics at the same university. His contribution to the Fountain–Khattree–Peddada Theorem in Pitman measure of closeness is one of the important results of his work. Khattree is the coauthor of two books and has coedited two volumes. He has served as an associate editor of the Communications in Statistics journal and the editor of the Interstat online journal. He was Chief editor of Journal of Statistics and Applications for more than ten years.

#4631

Annette Dobson

#72654

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Annette Jane Dobson is a Professor of Biostatistics in the University of Queensland's Australian Women and Girl's Health Research Centre in the School of Public Health. Dobson was Director of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health from 1995 to 2013. She is a highly cited publication author, a book author, and has received an Australia Day award.

#4632

Francesca Dominici

#34159

Overall Influence

Francesca Dominici is a Harvard Professor who develops methodology in causal inference and data science and led research projects that combine big data with health policy and climate change. She is a professor of biostatistics, co-director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative, and a former senior associate dean for research in the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

#4633

Judy A. Holdener

#90666

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Judy Holdener is an American mathematician and educator. She is a professor of mathematics at Kenyon College. She was born in 1965. Holdener's primary interest is in number theory. She discovered a simpler proof of the theorem of Touchard, which states that every perfect number is of the form 2k, 12k+1, or 36k+9.

#4634

Ryszard Syski

#72778

Overall Influence

1924 - 2007 (83 years)

Ryszard Syski was a Polish-American mathematician whose research was in queueing theory. During World War II he was in the Armia Krajowa with his parents, partaking in the Warsaw uprising, being imprisoned in Lamsdorf, Silesia and Bavaria , and joining the Polish Second Corps for fights in Italy .

#4635

Stanley Farlow

#55107

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Stanley Jerome Farlow is an American mathematician specializing in differential equations. For many years he has been a professor at the University of Maine. Life Farlow earned a bachelor's degree in physics at Iowa State University and a master's degree in mathematics at the University of Iowa. From 1962 to 1968 he was a lieutenant commander in the PHS, completing his Ph.D. in mathematics at Oregon State University in 1967. His doctoral supervisor was Ronald Bernard Guenther, and his doctoral dissertation was on Existence Theorems for Periodic Solutions of Parabolic Partial Differential Equ...

#4636

Carl S. Herz

#85035

Overall Influence

1930 - 1995 (65 years)

Carl Samuel Herz was an American-Canadian mathematician, specializing in harmonic analysis. His name is attached to the Herz–Schur multiplier. He held professorships at Cornell University and McGill University, where he was Peter Redpath Professor of Mathematics at the time of his death.

#4637

Marie-Louise Michelsohn

#82600

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (84 years)

Marie-Louise Michelsohn is a professor of mathematics at State University of New York at Stony Brook. Education Michelsohn attended the Bronx High School of Science. She attended the University of Chicago for her undergraduate and graduate studies, including her PhD.

#4638

Betz Halloran

#66210

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Mary Elizabeth Halloran is an American biostatistician who works as a professor of biostatistics, professor of epidemiology, and adjunct professor of applied mathematics at the University of Washington.

#4639

Susanna Terracini

#52864

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (62 years)

Susanna Terracini is an Italian mathematician known for her research on chaos in Hamiltonian dynamical systemss, including the n-body problem, reaction–diffusion systems, and the Schrödinger equation.

#4640

Lillian Pierce

#71876

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (45 years)

Lillian Beatrix Pierce is a mathematician whose research connects number theory with harmonic analysis. She is a professor of mathematics at Duke University. Early life and education Pierce was home-schooled in Fallbrook, California and began playing the violin at age four. By age 11 she began performing professionally as a violinist. As a teenager, she also started taking classes at a local community college, accumulating so many units that some of the universities she applied to refused to consider her for freshman admission. She entered Princeton University majoring in mathematics but inten...

#4641

Robert James Blattner

#92760

Overall Influence

1931 - 2015 (84 years)

Robert James Blattner was a mathematics professor at UCLA working on harmonic analysis, representation theory, and geometric quantization, who introduced Blattner's conjecture. Born in Milwaukee, Blattner received his bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1953 and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1957. He joined the UCLA mathematics department in 1957 and remained on the staff until his retirement as professor emeritus in 1992.

#4642

Mathai Joseph

#22752

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (82 years)

Mathai Joseph is an Indian computer scientist and author. Early life and education Joseph studied for a BSc in physics at Wilson College and an MSc in the same subject at the University of Mumbai in 1964. He later studied for a Postgraduate Diploma in electronics at the Welsh College of Advanced Technology and then undertook a PhD in computing at Churchill College, Cambridge under the supervision of David Wheeler .

#4643

Kim-Chuan Toh

#75828

Overall Influence

Kim-Chuan Toh is a Singaporean mathematician, and Leo Tan Professor in Science at the National University of Singapore . He is known for his contributions to the theory, practice, and application of convex optimization, especially semidefinite programming and conic programming.

#4644

Dave Ulrich

#9814

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

Dave Ulrich is the Rensis Likert Professor at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan and a partner at the RBL Group, a consulting firm focused on helping organizations and leaders deliver value. He has published over 200 articles and book chapters and over 30 books. He edited Human Resource Management 1990-1999, served on editorial board of 4 other journals and on the Board of Directors for Herman Miller (16 years), has spoken to large audiences in 90 countries; performed workshops for over half of the Fortune 200; coached successful business leaders, and is a Distinguished Fellow in the National Academy of Human Resources.

#4645

Anatol Slissenko

Anatol Slissenko

#77560

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (84 years)

Anatol Slissenko is a Soviet, Russian and French mathematician and computer scientist. Among his research interests one finds automatic theorem proving, recursive analysis, computational complexity, algorithmics, graph grammars, verification, computer algebra, entropy and probabilistic models related to computer science.

#4646

Chris Brink

#32471

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (74 years)

Chris Brink, CBE, FRSSAf is a South African mathematician and academic. He was the Vice-Chancellor of Newcastle University between 2007 and December 2016. Career After graduating with a degree in maths and computer science from Rand Afrikaans University, Brink undertook post-graduate study at Rhodes University and the University of Cambridge. He became professor and head of mathematics and applied mathematics at the University of Cape Town in 1995, pro-vice-chancellor at the University of Wollongong in 1999 and rector and vice-chancellor of Stellenbosch University in 2002 before being appoin...

#4647

Robert Guralnick

Robert Guralnick

#94138

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Robert Michael Guralnick is an American mathematician known for his work in group theory. He works as a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Southern California. Guralnick was named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012, was an invited lecturer at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014, and was awarded the Cole Prize in 2018. He is currently managing editor of Forum of Mathematics.

#4648

Edward R. Dougherty

#69076

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Edward R. Dougherty is an American mathematician, electrical engineer, Robert M. Kennedy '26 Chair, and Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He is also the Scientific Director of the Center for Bioinformatics and Genomic Systems Engineering. Dougherty is a specialist in nonlinear image processing, small-sample classification problems, and modeling gene regulatory networks. He is the Fellow of IEEE and SPIE.

#4649

Erna Schneider Hoover

#7480

Overall Influence

1926 - Present (99 years)

Erna Schneider Hoover is an American mathematician notable for inventing a computerized telephone switching method which "revolutionized modern communication". It prevented system overloads by monitoring call center traffic and prioritizing tasks on phone switching systems to enable more robust service during peak calling times. At Bell Laboratories where she worked for over 32 years, Hoover was described as an important pioneer for women in the field of computer technology.

#4650

Henda Swart

#54046

Overall Influence

1939 - 2016 (77 years)

Hendrika Cornelia Scott Swart FRSSAf was a South African mathematician, a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and a professor at the University of Cape Town Personal life Born Hendrika Cornelia Scott she married John Henry Swart. They had three children Christine, Sandra and Gustav.

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