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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#4951

Vincent Moncrief

#92602

Overall Influence

Vincent Edward Moncrief is an American mathematician and physicist at Yale University. He works in relativity and mathematical physics. Moncrief earned his doctorate in 1972 at the University of Maryland College Park under the supervision of Charles William Misner and worked subsequently at the University of California Berkeley and at the University of Utah. He grew up in Oklahoma City.

#4952

Rahul Mukerjee

#36490

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (69 years)

Rahul Mukerjee is an Indian academic and statistician. He is a National Science Chair of the Government of India, hosted by the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, after his superannuation from the same institute in 2021 as a professor in the higher academic grade. He is also an emeritus scientist of the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi.

#4953

Ernest Corominas

#52640

Overall Influence

1913 - 1992 (79 years)

Ernest Corominas i Vigneaux was a Spanish-French mathematician. Born in Barcelona, he studied architecture and mathematics at the University of Barcelona, graduating in 1936. He served as in officer of engineering in the Spanish Republican Army during the Spanish Civil War. In 1939 he fled to France, before moving to South America in 1940. After working six months as an architect in Chile, he moved to Argentina, where Julio Rey Pastor offered him a lecturer position at the University of Buenos Aires.

#4954

Gordon Rugg

#37732

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (70 years)

Gordon Rugg is a British academic, head of the Knowledge Modelling Group at Keele University and a visiting senior research fellow at the Open University, known for his work on the Voynich manuscript.

#4955

Attia Ashour

#67548

Overall Influence

1924 - 2017 (93 years)

Attia Abdel Salam Ashour was an Egyptian emeritus professor of Applied Mathematics at Cairo University. He was a former president of the Arab Union of Mathematical and Physics. A former Director of Advanced Schools on the Physics of the Earth. He was an elected member of World Academy of Sciences, a founding member of African Academy of Sciences and he was also a Knight in the National Merit Order in France.

#4956

Edward Wegman

#87110

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (82 years)

Edward Wegman is an American statistician and was a professor of statistics at George Mason University until his retirement in 2018. He holds a Ph.D. in mathematical statistics and is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, a Senior Member of the IEEE, and past chair of the National Research Council Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics. In addition to his work in the field of statistical computing, Wegman contributed a report to a Congressional hearing on climate change at the request of Republican Rep. Joe Barton. Wegman's report supported criticisms of the methodology of...

#4957

Charlotte Watts

Charlotte Watts

#56778

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (63 years)

Charlotte Helen Watts, is a British mathematician, epidemiologist, and academic. Since 2006, she has been Professor of Social and Mathematical Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She was also the Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK's Department for International Development from 2015 to 2020. Her research interests include HIV and gender-based violence.

#4958

Mary Deconge

#80378

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (92 years)

Mary Lovenia DeConge-Watson is an American mathematician and former nun as part of the Order of the Sisters of the Holy Family. She was the 15th African-American woman to earn her Ph.D. in mathematics.

#4959

Bodil Branner

#82253

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (82 years)

Bodil Branner is a retired Danish mathematician, one of the founders of European Women in Mathematics and a former chair of the Danish Mathematical Society. Her research concerned holomorphic dynamics and the history of mathematics.

#4960

Sam Tak Wu Kwong

#101007

Overall Influence

#4961

Susan Loepp

#44140

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (58 years)

Susan Renee Loepp is an American mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at Williams College. Her research concerns commutative algebra. Professional career Loepp graduated from Bethel College in 1989, and earned her Ph.D. in 1994 from the University of Texas at Austin, under the supervision of Raymond Heitmann. After postdoctoral studies at the University of Nebraska she took her present faculty position at Williams. She has publications in Journal of Algebra and Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra.

#4962

Idris Assani

#93124

Overall Influence

Idris Assani is a Beninese mathematician, who works as a professor of mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Although born in Niger, Assani is Beninese. He was educated in France, earning a bachelor's degree in commerce from Paris Dauphine University in 1981, a doctorate of the third cycle in mathematics from Pierre and Marie Curie University in 1981, and a doctor of science from Pierre and Marie Curie University in 1986, under the supervision of Antoine Brunel. He joined the UNC mathematics department in 1988 but, allegedly for racist reasons, was turned down for tenure.

#4963

John P. Huelsenbeck

#101040

Overall Influence

#4964

Catherine A. Roberts

Catherine A. Roberts

#76913

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Catherine A. Roberts is an American mathematician who serves as the executive director of the American Mathematical Society. She is a professor of mathematics at the College of the Holy Cross. Early life and education Roberts was born in 1965 in Boston, Massachusetts. Her family subsequently moved to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where her father opened a law practice and her mother became an important civic leader and social advocate in the community. Roberts and her spouse, a chemistry professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, have two sons.

#4965

Mark Pollicott

#93471

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

Mark Pollicott is a British mathematician known for his contributions to ergodic theory and dynamical systems. He has a particular interest in applications to other areas of mathematics, including geometry, number theory and analysis.

#4966

Endre Pap

#93065

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Endre Pap was born 26 February 1947 in Mali Iđoš in Vojvodina, Serbia, to a Hungarian family. B.Sc. 1970. M.Sc. 1973. Ph.D. 1975. Full Professor since 1986 at the Faculty of Sciences of the university in Novi Sad. Director of the Institute of Mathematics 1979–1980. He is now the Rector and a Full Professor of the Singidunum University in Belgrade. He was a president of Academy of Sciences and Arts of Vojvodina ,. He is now a corresponding member of European Academy of Sciences . He is a member from the outside of the Public Organ of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, since 2000. He is an hon...

#4967

Dorje C. Brody

#82140

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (55 years)

Dorje C. Brody is a British applied mathematician and mathematical physicist. Career Dorje C. Brody was born in Hong Kong, but lived in Japan for a number of years. He received his BSc in physics at Niigata University and earned an MSc and PhD degrees in theoretical physics from Imperial.

#4968

Richard A. Kronmal

#101205

Overall Influence

#4969

Xuming He

#83278

Overall Influence

Xuming He is Professor and Inaugural Chair of Statistics and Data Science at the Washington University in St. Louis. He serves as President of the International Statistical Institute. Biography He earned a bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics from Fudan University in 1984. He went to graduate school at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1985 and received a Master's degree in Mathematics and then Ph.D. in Statistics in 1989. He joined the University of Michigan as H. C. Carver Collegiate Professor in 2011, and served as Department Chair from 2015 to 2020. He was appointed as the inaugural chair of the department of Statistics and Data Science at Washington University in St.

#4970

Pascal Massart

#98016

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (67 years)

Pascal Massart is a French Statistician. His work focuses on probability and statistics, notably the Dvoretzky–Kiefer–Wolfowitz inequality, the Bousquet inequality, the concentration inequality, and the Efron-Stein inequality. With Lucien Birgé he worked on model selection.

#4971

Palash Sarkar

#80170

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (56 years)

Palash Sarkar is an Indian mathematician and a professor at the Applied Statistics Unit at the Indian Statistical Institute. His main research interest is Cryptology. He was awarded in 2011 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, the highest science award in India, in the mathematical sciences category.

#4972

Ramin Takloo-Bighash

#96018

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (51 years)

Ramin Takloo-Bighash is a mathematician who works in the field of automorphic forms and Diophantine geometry and is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Mathematical career Takloo-Bighash graduated from the Sharif University of Technology, where he enrolled after winning a Silver medal at the 1992 International Mathematical Olympiad. In 2001, Takloo-Bighash graduated under Joseph Shalika from Johns Hopkins University. He spent 2001-2007 at Princeton University, first as an instructor and then as an assistant professor. He is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicag...

#4973

Rand R. Wilcox

#101343

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

#4974

Mildred Barnard

#83620

Overall Influence

1908 - 2000 (92 years)

Mildred Macfarlan Barnard was an Australian biometrician, mathematician and statistician. Early life and education Barnard was born in Melbourne on 5 August 1908. Her mother, Jessie Margaret Barnard, helped found the Federal Territory War Food Fund. Her father, Robert James Allman Barnard, became a foundation professor of mathematics at the Royal Military College, Duntroon near Canberra, where the family moved in 1911. They returned to Melbourne in the 1920s, when Barnard's father took a position as senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne.

#4975

Tim Cochran

#68045

Overall Influence

1955 - 2014 (59 years)

Thomas "Tim" Daniel Cochran was a professor of mathematics at Rice University specializing in topology, especially low-dimensional topology, the theory of knots and links and associated algebra. Education and career Tim Cochran was a valedictorian for the Severna Park High School Class of 1973. Later, he was an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1982 . He then returned to MIT as a C.L.E. Moore Postdoctoral Instructor from 1982 to 1984. He was an NSF postdoctoral fellow from 1985 to 1987. Following ...

#4976

Ratan Shankar Mishra

#43467

Overall Influence

1918 - 1999 (81 years)

Ratan Shankar Mishra was an Indian mathematician and academic who was known for his solutions to the Unified fluid theory of Albert Einstein. He headed the department of Mathematics of the University of Gorakhpur and University of Allahabad and served as the vice chancellor of Lucknow University , as the reader at University of Delhi and as the dean at Banares Hindu University, Varanasi . He was honoured by the Government of India in 1971 with Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award.

#4977

Pavel Gevorgyan

#90100

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (62 years)

Pavel Georgyan is a professor, doctor of science in physics and mathematics, corresponding member of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Head of Department of Mathematical Analysis of Moscow State Pedagogical University.

#4978

Nail Bakirov

#100257

Overall Influence

1952 - 2010 (58 years)

Nail Kutluzhanovich Bakirov was a prominent Russian statistician, professor and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Ufa, Russia, known for his work in the asymptotic theory of mathematical statistics.

#4979

Isabel Hubard Escalera

#25690

Overall Influence

1901 - Present (124 years)

Isabel Alicia Hubard Escalera is a Mexican mathematician in the Institute of Mathematics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico . Early life and education As a child, Isabel Alicia Hubard wanted to be a bullfighter. She has said of her family, "My mother is an engineer and my father an accountant. My brother is a mathematician and my sister a physicist. I never thought that I would like math. I simply found it easy and fun, but nothing more. However, my mathematics teacher in junior high and high school, Óscar Chávez, inspired me."

#4980

Eugene Isaacson

#80281

Overall Influence

1919 - 2008 (89 years)

Eugene Isaacson , was a US mathematician who pioneered modern numerical analysis. He was a mathematics and physics graduate of City College in New York, he then entered the graduate program in mathematics at New York University under the supervision of Kurt Otto Friedrichs, gaining a PhD on water waves on sloping beaches in 1949. His academic career was then spent at the Courant Institute until his retirement.

#4981

Andreas Thom

#100949

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (48 years)

Andreas Thom is a German mathematician, working on geometric group theory, algebraic topology, ergodic theory of group actions, and operator algebras. Education and career Thom received in 2000 his Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge. In 2003 he obtained his doctorate from the University of Münster with thesis advisor Joachim Cuntz and thesis Connective E-Theory and Bivariant Homology for C*-Algebra. He was a Postdoc 2003–2005 at the University of Münster, and 2005–2007 at the University of Göttingen. From 2007 to 2009 he was a junior professor for Geometrical Aspects of Pure Mathematics at the University of Göttingen.

#4982

Rodica Simion

#82321

Overall Influence

1955 - 2000 (45 years)

Rodica Eugenia Simion was a Romanian-American mathematician. She was the Columbian School Professor of Mathematics at George Washington University. Her research concerned combinatorics: she was a pioneer in the study of permutation patterns, and an expert on noncrossing partitions.

#4983

Harriet Pollatsek

#85152

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

Harriet Suzanne Katcher Pollatsek is an American mathematician and Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Mount Holyoke College. Education and career Born to a Jewish family in Detroit, Michigan, Pollatsek entered the honors program at University of Michigan in 1959, the first person in her family to attend college. She earned a BA in mathematics in 1963 and her PhD in 1967 under the direction of Jack E. McLaughlin. After graduating she held short-term teaching positions at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, the University of Toledo, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

#4984

Michael Kapovich

Michael Kapovich

#100617

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (62 years)

Michael Kapovich is a Russian-American mathematician. Kapovich was awarded a doctorate in 1988 at the Sobolev Institute of Mathematics in Novosibirsk with thesis advisor Samuel Leibovich Krushkal and thesis "Плоские конформные структуры на 3-многообразиях" . Kapovich is now a professor at University of California, Davis, where he has been since 2003.

#4985

Anish Ghosh

#101683

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (46 years)

Anish Ghosh is an Indian mathematician specialising in ergodic theory, Lie groups and number theory. He is a Professor in the School of Mathematics of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research , Mumbai. He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Mathematical Sciences in the year 2021. Anish Ghosh is also a part of the INFOSYS-Chandrasekharan Virtual Centre for Random Geometry which is a group of scientists at TIFR Mumbai and ICTS Bengaluru working on topics related to random geometry.

#4986

Gady Kozma

#96887

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Gady Kozma is an Israeli mathematician. Kozma obtained his PhD in 2001 at the University of Tel Aviv with Alexander Olevskii. He is a scientist at the Weizmann Institute. In 2005, he demonstrated the existence of the scaling limit value of the loop-erased random walk in three dimensions and its invariance under rotations and dilations.

#4987

Rosa M. Miró-Roig

#96586

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Rosa M. Miró-Roig is a professor of mathematics at the University of Barcelona, specializing in algebraic geometry and commutative algebra. She did her graduate studies at the University of Barcelona, earning a Ph.D. in 1985 under the supervision of Sebastià Xambó-Descamps with a thesis entitled Haces reflexivos sobre espacios proyectivos.

#4988

Sylvie Paycha

#88409

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Sylvie Paycha is a French mathematician and mathematical physicist working in operator theory as a professor at the University of Potsdam. She has chaired both European Women in Mathematics and L'association femmes et mathématiques.

#4989

Debasis Mitra

#46953

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (81 years)

Debasis Mitra is an Indian-American mathematician, known for his numerous contributions to the theory of communication systems, control theory and queueing theory. He got his B.Sc. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from University of London, on an Atomic Energy Research fellowship , while he was simultaneously affiliated with the Control systems center at the University of Manchester. His work focused on control of nuclear power systems. He then joined Bell Labs as a member of the technical staff , working on semiconductor networks, diffusion models for service adoption and traffic modeling.

#4990

Alexey Stakhov

#70752

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (86 years)

Alexey Petrovich Stakhov is a Ukrainian mathematician, inventor and engineer, who has made contributions to the theory of Fibonacci numbers and the "Golden Section" and their applications in computer science and measurement theory and technology. Doctor of computer science , professor . Author of over 500 publications, 14 books and 65 international patents.

#4991

James Harold Ware

#101830

Overall Influence

#4992

Ben Delo

#28679

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (41 years)

Ben Delo is a British entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and former executive of BitMEX. In 2022, Delo pleaded guilty to a United States Bank Secrecy Act violation and received a 30-month probation sentence.

#4993

Anuška Ferligoj

#50783

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Anuška Ferligoj is a Slovenian mathematician, born August 19, 1947, in Ljubljana, Slovenia, whose specialty is statistics and network analysis. Her specific interests include multivariate analysis , cluster analysis , social network analysis , methodological research of public opinion, analysis of scientific networks. She is Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology.

#4994

Eckehard Schöll

#84297

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (74 years)

Eckehard Schöll is a German physicist and mathematician as well as a Professor of theoretical physics at the Technical University of Berlin. He is an expert in the field of nonlinear dynamics and head of the group Nonlinear dynamics and control. His work pertains to research in the fields of mathematics and physics, particularly semiconductor physics, neurodynamics and bifurcation theory. His latest research is also related to topics in biology and the social sciences, e.g. simulation of the dynamics in socioeconomic or neuronal networks. He is one of the forerunners into the research of ...

#4995

Kristina Reiss

#81016

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

Kristina Reiss is a German mathematics educator. She is professor of mathematics education and dean of education at the Technical University of Munich, where she holds the Heinz Nixdorf Chair of Mathematics Education.

#4996

Josephine M. Mitchell

#85737

Overall Influence

1912 - 2000 (88 years)

Josephine Margaret Mitchell was a Canadian-American mathematician specializing in the mathematical analysis of functions of several complex variables. She was the victim of a notorious case of discrimination against women in academia when, after she married another more junior faculty member at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the university used its anti-nepotism rules to revoke her tenured position while allowing her husband to keep his untenured one.

#4997

Louis Landweber

#97679

Overall Influence

1912 - 1998 (86 years)

Louis Landweber , was a leading ship hydrodynamicist, known for Landweber iteration. Education and career Landweber received in 1932 a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the City College of New York. After graduation, he became a physicist at the United States Experimental Model Basin at the Washington Navy Yard. He received a master's degree in physics from George Washington University. Starting in 1940, he led a research group for mine-sweeping and other war-related activities. He received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Maryland and was promoted to the head of the hydrodynamics...

#4998

Jan H. van Schuppen

#72738

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Jan Hendrik van Schuppen is a Dutch mathematician and Professor at the Department of Mathematics of the Vrije Universiteit, known for his contributions in the field of systems theory, particularly on control theory and system identification, on probability, and on a number of related practical applications.

#4999

Mariusz Lemańczyk

#82407

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (67 years)

Mariusz Tomasz Lemańczyk is a Polish mathematician known for his contributions in ergodic theory and dynamical systems. Life and career He graduated from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń in 1981, in mathematics, and completed his PhD in 1985. In 1987, he received the Kazimierz Kuratowski Prize, considered one of the most prestigious awards for young Polish mathematicians. He received his habilitation at the University of Warsaw in 1991, after which he joined the faculty at Nicolaus Copernicus University. In 1997, he received the Stefan Banach Prize from the Polish Mathematical Society.

#5000

Margaret Cheney

#81291

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (70 years)

Margaret Cheney is an American mathematician whose research involves inverse problems. She is Yates Chair and Professor of Mathematics at Colorado State University. Education and career Cheney graduated from Oberlin College in 1976, with a double major in mathematics and physics. She completed her Ph.D. in 1982 at Indiana University Bloomington. Her dissertation, Quantum Mechanical Scattering and Inverse Scattering in Two Dimensions, was supervised by Roger G. Newton.

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