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Norbert Wiener
Norbert Wiener (November 26, 1894, Columbia, Missouri – March 18, 1964, Stockholm, Sweden) was an American pure and applied mathematician.
A famous child prodigy, Wiener went on to become a pioneer in the study of stochastic and noise processes,...
Paul Cohen
Paul Joseph Cohen (April 2, 1934 – March 23, 2007) was an American mathematician best known for his proof of the independence of the continuum hypothesis and the axiom of choice from Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory, the most widely accepted...
Jerzy Neyman
Jerzy Neyman (April 16, 1894–August 5, 1981), born Jerzy Spława-Neyman, was a Polish-American mathematician and statistician.
He was born into a Polish family in Bendery, Bessarabia in Imperial Russia, the fourth of four children of Czesław Spława...
William Feller
William (Vilim) Feller born Vilibald Srećko Feller (July 7, 1906 – January 14, 1970), was a Croatian-American mathematician specializing in probability theory.
Feller was born in Zagreb to Ida Oemichen-Perc, a Croatian-Austrian Catholic, and Eugene...
Richard Brauer
Richard Dagobert Brauer (February 10, 1901 – April 17, 1977) was a leading German and American mathematician. He worked mainly in abstract algebra, but made important contributions to number theory. He was the founder of modular representation...
John McCarthy
John McCarthy (born September 4, 1927, in Boston, Massachusetts), is an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist who received the Turing Award in 1971 for his major contributions to the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). He was...
John Tukey
John Wilder Tukey (June 16, 1915 – July 26, 2000) was an American statistician.
Tukey was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1915, and obtained a B.A. in 1936 and M.Sc. in 1937, in chemistry, from Brown University, before moving to Princeton...
Donald Knuth
Donald Ervin Knuth (pronounced /kəˈnuːθ/) (born January 10, 1938) is a renowned computer scientist and Professor Emeritus of the Art of Computer Programming at Stanford University.
Author of the seminal multi-volume work The Art of Computer...
Kurt Gödel
Kurt Gödel (German pronunciation: [kʊɐ̯t ˈɡøːdl̩]; April 28, 1906, Brno – January 14, 1978, Princeton, New Jersey) was an Austrian-American logician, mathematician and philosopher. One of the most significant logicians of all time, Gödel made an...
George Dantzig
George Bernard Dantzig (Nov 8, 1914 – May 13, 2005) was an American mathematician, and the Professor Emeritus of Transportation Sciences and Professor of Operations Research and of Computer Science at Stanford.
Dantzig is known for his development...
Allen Newell
Allen Newell (March 19, 1927 - July 19, 1992) was a researcher in computer science and cognitive psychology at the RAND corporation and at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, Tepper School of Business, and Department of...
Kurt O. Friedrichs
Kurt Otto Friedrichs (September 28, 1901 – December 31, 1982) was a noted mathematician. He was the co-founder of the Courant Institute at New York University and recipient of the National Medal of Science.
Kurt Otto Friedrichs, a well-known...
John Backus
For the physicist, see John Backus (acoustician)
John Warner Backus (December 3, 1924 – March 17, 2007) was an American computer scientist. He directed the team that invented the first widely used high-level programming language (FORTRAN) and was...
Joseph Leo Doob
Joseph Leo Doob (February 27, 1910–June 7, 2004) was an American mathematician, specializing in analysis and probability theory.
The theory of martingales was developed by Doob.
Doob was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, February 27, 1910, the son of Leo...
Oscar Zariski
Oscar Zariski (born Oscher Zaritsky 24 April 1899 in Kobrin, Poland (today Belarus), died 4 July 1986 (Brookline, Massachusetts)) was a Jewish-American mathematician and one of the most influential algebraic geometers of the 20th century.
Zariski...
Shing-Tung Yau
Shing-Tung Yau (Chinese: 丘成桐; pinyin: Qiū Chéngtóng; born April 4, 1949) is a Chinese American mathematician working in differential geometry, and involved in the theory of Calabi-Yau manifolds.
Yau was born in Shantou, Guangdong Province, China...
Hassler Whitney
Hassler Whitney (23 March 1907 – 10 May 1989) was an American mathematician. He was one of the founders of singularity theory, and did foundational work in manifolds, embeddings, immersions, and characteristic classes.
Whitney's earliest work, from...
Marshall Harvey Stone
Marshall Harvey Stone (April 8, 1903, New York City – January 9, 1989, Madras India) was an American mathematician who contributed to real analysis, functional analysis, and the study of Boolean algebras.
Stone was the son of Harlan Fiske Stone, who...
Shiing-Shen Chern
Shiing-Shen Chern (simplified Chinese: 陈省身; traditional Chinese: 陳省身; pinyin: Chén Xǐngshēn, October 26, 1911 – December 3, 2004) was a Chinese American mathematician, one of the leaders in differential geometry of the twentieth century.
Chern was...
Herman Heine Goldstine
Herman Heine Goldstine (September 13, 1913 – June 16, 2004), mathematician, computer scientist and scientific administrator, was one of the original developers of ENIAC, the first of the modern electronic digital computers.
Herman Heine Goldstine...
Bradley Efron
Bradley Efron (born May 1938) is a statistician best known for proposing the bootstrap resampling technique, which has had a major impact in the field of statistics and virtually every area of statistical application. The bootstrap was one of the...
Karen Uhlenbeck
Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck (born August 24, 1942 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a professor and Sid W. Richardson Regents Chairholder in the Department of Mathematics at The University of Texas in Austin. In 1998 she was selected to be a Noether Lecturer. In...
Michael Freedman
Michael Hartley Freedman (born 21 April 1951 in Los Angeles, California, U.S.) is a mathematician at Microsoft Station Q. In 1986, he was awarded a Fields Medal for his work on the Poincaré conjecture. Freedman and Robion Kirby showed that an exotic...
Richard Karp
Richard Manning Karp (born 1935) is a computer scientist and computational theorist, notable for research in the theory of algorithms, for which he received a Turing Award in 1985 and the Kyoto Prize in 2008.
Born to Abraham and Rose Karp in Boston,...
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Antoni Zygmund
Antoni Zygmund (December 25, 1900 – May 30, 1992) was a Polish born American mathematician who exerted a major influence on 20th-century mathematics.
Born in Warsaw, Zygmund obtained his PhD from Warsaw University (1923) and became a professor at...
John Cocke
John Cocke (May 30, 1925 – July 16, 2002) was an American computer scientist recognised for his large contribution to computer architecture and optimizing compiler design. He is considered by many to be "the father of RISC architecture."
He attended...
Ralph E. Gomory
Ralph Edward Gomory (born 7 May 1929) is an American applied mathematician and executive. Gomory worked at IBM as a researcher and later as an executive.
Gomory is the son of Andrew L. Gomory and Maria Schellenberg. He received his B.A. from...
John Milnor
John Willard Milnor (b. February 20, 1931 in Orange, New Jersey) is an American mathematician known for his work in differential topology, K-theory, and dynamical systems, and for his influential books. He won the Fields Medal in 1962 and Wolf Prize...
Saunders Mac Lane
Saunders Mac Lane (4 August 1909, Taftville, Connecticut – 14 April 2005, San Francisco) was an American mathematician who cofounded category theory with Samuel Eilenberg.
Mac Lane was christened "Leslie Saunders MacLane", but "Leslie" fell into...
Donald C. Spencer
Donald Clayton Spencer (April 25, 1912 - December 23, 2001) was an American mathematician, known for major work on deformation theory of structures arising in differential geometry, and on several complex variables from the point of view of partial...
Samuel Karlin
Samuel Karlin (June 8, 1924 - December 18, 2007) was an American mathematician at Stanford University in the late 20th century.
Karlin was borne in Yanova, Poland and immigrated to Chicago as a child. Raised in an Orthodox Jewish household, Karlin...
Stephen Cole Kleene
Stephen Cole Kleene (January 5, 1909, Hartford, Connecticut, USA – January 25, 1994, Madison, Wisconsin) was an American mathematician who helped lay the foundations for theoretical computer science. One of many distinguished students of Alonzo...
George F. Carrier
George Francis Carrier (1918 – March 8, 2002) was a mathematician and the T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Applied Mathematics Emeritus of Harvard University. He was particularly noted for his ability to intuitively model a physical system and...
Alberto Calderón
Alberto Pedro Calderón (September 14, 1920 – April 16, 1998) was an Argentine mathematician best known for his work on the theory of partial differential equations and singular integral operators, and widely considered as one of the 20th century's...
Martin Kruskal
Martin David Kruskal (September 28, 1925 – December 26, 2006) was an American mathematician and physicist. He made fundamental contributions in many areas of mathematics and science, ranging from plasma physics to general relativity and from...
Louis Nirenberg
Louis Nirenberg (born 28 February1925) is a Canadian-born mathematician, and one of the outstanding analysts of the twentieth century. He has made fundamental contributions to linear and nonlinear partial differential equations and their application...
Joseph B. Keller
Joseph B. Keller is an American mathematician who specializes in applied mathematics. He is famous for his work on the "Geometrical Theory of Diffraction". He is also known for his contribution to the Einstein-Brillouin-Keller method (EBK), which...
Cathleen Synge Morawetz
Cathleen Synge Morawetz (born May 5, 1923 in Toronto, Canada) is a mathematician. Morawetz's research was mainly in the study of the partial differential equations governing fluid flow, particularly those of mixed type occurring in transonic flow....
Elias M. Stein
Elias Menachem Stein (born January 13, 1931) is a mathematician and a leading figure in the field of harmonic analysis. He is the Albert Baldwin Dod Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University. His honors include the Steele Prize (1984 and 2002...
Ronald Coifman
Ronald Coifman is the Phillips Professor of Mathematics at Yale University. Coifman graduated from the University of Geneva in 1965.
Coifman is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering...
Felix Browder
Felix E. Browder (1927-) is a United States mathematician. He is the eldest son of Earl Browder and brother of William Browder.
Felix Browder received his doctorate from Princeton University in 1948. He is a professor of mathematics at Rutgers...
Raoul Bott
Raoul Bott, FRS (September 24, 1923 – December 20, 2005) was a mathematician known for numerous basic contributions to geometry in its broad sense.
He was born in Budapest, grew up in Slovakia, but spent his working life in the United States. His...
Leonard Kleinrock
Leonard Kleinrock (born June 13, 1934, in New York) is an engineer and computer scientist, and a computer science professor at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, who made several important contributions to the field of...
C. R. Rao
Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao (Kannada: ಕಲ್ಯಾಂಪುದಿ ರಾಧಾಕೃಷ್ಣ ರಾಯ) FRS (born September 10, 1920) is a world-renowned Indian born statistician, National Medal of Science Awardee, and currently Professor emeritus at Penn State University and Research...
James Glimm
James Gilbert Glimm (born 24 March 1934) is an American mathematical physicist, and Professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Columbia University in 1959; his advisor was Richard V....
Carl R. de Boor
Carl R. de Boor (born 1937) is a German-American mathematician and professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Born in Stolp, Germany (now, as part of Poland, called Słupsk), as the 7th of 8 children born to Werner (an anti-Nazi...
Isadore Singer
Isadore Manuel Singer (born April 24, 1924) is an Institute Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is noted for his work with Michael Atiyah on the Atiyah–Singer index theorem.
He was born in...
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Dennis Sullivan
Dennis Parnell Sullivan (born 1941, Port Huron, Michigan) is an American mathematician. He is known for work in topology, both algebraic and geometric, and on dynamical systems. He holds the Albert Einstein Chair at the City University of New York...
Peter Lax
Peter David Lax (born May 1, 1926 in Budapest, Hungary) is a mathematician working in the areas of pure and applied mathematics. He has made important contributions to integrable systems, fluid dynamics and shock waves, solitonic physics, hyperbolic...
Stephen Smale
Stephen Smale (born July 15, 1930) is an American mathematician from Flint, Michigan. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1966, and spent more than three decades on the mathematics faculty of the University of California, Berkeley (1960-61 and 1964...
Hyman Bass
Hyman Bass (born 1932) is an American mathematician, known for work in algebra. From 1959-1998 he was Professor in the Mathematics Department at Columbia University, where he is now professor emeritus. He is currently the Roger Lyndon Collegiate...
Andrew Viterbi
Andrew James Viterbi, Ph.D. (Bergamo (Italy) March 9, 1935) is an Italian-American electrical engineer and businessman.
Viterbi was born in Bergamo, Italy to Jewish parents and emigrated with them in 1939 to the United States as a refugee. His...
John G. Thompson
John Griggs Thompson (born October 13, 1932 in Ottawa, Kansas, USA) is a mathematician noted for his work in the field of finite groups. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1970 and the 2008 Abel Prize.
He received his B.A. from Yale University in...
