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1. Johann Bernoulli (1667)
Mathematician
Swiss mathematician who invented calculus and was the first to the use the term 'integral.' He was one of several mathematicians within his family and he educated another famous mathematician, Leonhard...
2. Olinde Rodrigues (1795)
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Banker, mathematician, and social reformer, who developed Rodrigues' formula, a formula for the Legendre polynomials.
3. Aleksandr Lyapunov (1970)
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Russian applied mathematics expert who played a key role in the development of the stability theory of a dynamical system. He was also a respected professor at Kharkiv University.
4. William Delbert Gann (1970)
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American technical analytic tool innovator and finance trader who is known for developing Gann angles, Square of 9, Hexagon, and Circle of 360.
5. Robert Lee Moore (1882)
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Mathematics professor who became an expert in topology and the creator of a novel way of teaching. However, his legacy has been tarnished by his poor treatment and racism towards...
6. Harold Hotelling (1970)
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Pioneer of modern statistics who was also an influential economic theorist. He was also a longtime Mathematics Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and received the...
7. Benoit Mandelbrot (1970)
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Mathematician and polymath who gained fame for popularizing the concept of fractal geometry. A decorated thinker, he was awarded the French Légion d'honneur in 1989, and served as the Sterling Professor...
8. David Cox (1924)
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Prominent British statistician who became known for his contributions to the proportional hazards model, which was widely used in the analysis of survival data. In his career, he served as...
9. Jurgen Moser (1970)
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Mathematician who was a professor at MIT and New York University. He won the first George David Birkhoff Prize in 1968 for his work on the theory of Hamiltonian dynamical systems.
10. John Forbes Nash (1928)
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Mathematician who is best known for his works in game theory and who was the subject of the 2001 Academy Award-winning film A Beautiful Mind. He had a well-known period...
11. Igor Kluvanek (1970)
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Mathematician and scientist who did a lot of work in fields like applied mathematics and functional analysis. He spent the majority of his career working for Flinders University in South...
12. Jean-claude Falmagne (1934)
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Belgian mathematical psychologist who has dealt with many topics including reaction time theory, decision theory and philosophy of science. He developed knowledge space theory which is the mathematical foundation for...
13. John Stallings (1935)
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Famous for his work in the mathematical sub-fields of low-dimensional topology and geometric group theory, this University of California-Berkeley professor proved the Poincaré Conjecture and devised the Stallings Theorem about...
14. Eric Weinstein (1965)
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The highly skilled mathematician and economist who is most recognized as a principal at Natron Group, a hedge fund based in New York.
15. Michael Berry (1941)
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English mathematical physicist who taught at the University of Bristol. He became a fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1982 and was knighted the Queen in 1996.
16. David Courtney Marr (1970)
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Neurophysiologist and psychologist whose work greatly influenced the field of Computational Neuroscience. The Marr Prize, one of the highest honors in computer vision, is named after him.
17. David Kazhdan (1970)
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Known for his work in a sub-field of abstract algebra known as representation theory, this Soviet-born mathematician was awarded the 2012 Israel Prize and was also a recipient of a...
18. Gladys West (1930)
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Mathematician who made pioneering contributions to GPS technology. She was the second Black woman ever hired by the Naval Surface Warfare Center. In 2018, she was inducted into the United...
19. Gareth Williams (1978)
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Best remembered for the mysterious circumstances of his death, this Welsh-born mathematician was a dual Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and British Secret Intelligence Service agent.
20. Jacob Bronowski (1970)
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Mathematician best known for his humanist approach to math and science. He was the writer and presenter of a documentary series called The Ascent of Man, which aired in 1973....
