1. Benjamin Peirce (1809)

American Mathematician

Famous American mathematician who taught at Harvard for 50 years. He was also the director of the U.S. Coast Survey from 1867 to 1874.

2. Edward Kasner (1878)

American Mathematician

Mathematician who coined the term 'googol,' to characterize a large number, one followed by a hundred zeros. He was also the first Jew appointed to a faculty position in the...

3. Oswald Veblen (1880)

American Mathematician

Influential mathematician who proved the Jordan curve theorem in 1905. He also contributed to the foundations of modern geometry and atomic physics.

4. Oscar Zariski (1899)

American Mathematician

One of the most influential American mathematicians of the 20th century who originated the so-called Zariski topology. He was a professor at Harvard University in 1947 to 1969.

5. Clifford Truesdell (1919)

American Mathematician

American mathematician and natural philosopher, whose work attempted to construct a mathematical model for treating mechanical phenomena. He was also the founder and editor-in-chief of the journals Archive for Rational...

6. David Gale (1921)

American Mathematician

Remembered for his research in the areas of logic, linear programming, and convex analysis, this economist and mathematician was the 1980 recipient of the John von Neumann Theory Prize. He taught for...

7. Richard Rusczyk (1971)

American Mathematician

Founder and CEO of the Art of Problem Solving which creates interactive educational opportunities for avid math students. His firm's YouTube channel has collected 60,000 subscribers thanks to its instructional mathematics clips.

8. James Sethian (1954)

American Mathematician

James Albert Sethian is a professor of mathematics at the University of California Berkeley and the head of the Mathematics Group at the United States Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley...

9. Emma Lehmer (1906)

American Mathematician

Emma Markovna Lehmer was a mathematician known for her work on reciprocity laws in algebraic number theory. She preferred to deal with complex number fields and integers rather than...

10. Dorothy Maharam (1917)

American Mathematician

Dorothy Maharam Stone is an American mathematician who made important contributions to measure theory. Her husband was British mathematician Arthur Harold Stone. She earned her B. S. degree at Carnegie...

11. Robert C. Prim (1921)

American Mathematician

Robert Clay Prim is an American mathematician and computer scientist. In 1941 Prim received his B. S. in Electrical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin where he also...

12. Sergey Fomin (1958)

American Mathematician

Sergey Vladimirovich Fomin is a Russian American mathematician specializing in combinatorics and its relations with algebra geometry and representation theory. Together with Andrei Zelevinsky he introduced cluster algebras. He...

13. Eugenio Calabi (1923)

American Mathematician

Eugenio Calabi is an Italian American mathematician and professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania specializing in differential geometry partial differential equations and their applications. Calabi was a Putnam Fellow...

14. Ron Eglash (1958)

American Mathematician

Ron Eglash is an American cyberneticist professor of science and technology studies at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and author widely known for his work in the field of ethnomathematics which...

15. Isadore Singer (1924)

American Mathematician

Isadore Manuel Singer is an Institute Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is noted for his work with Michael Atiyah proving the Atiyah–Singer...

16. Jim Hefferon (1958)

American Mathematician

Jim Hefferon is a Professor of Mathematics at Saint Michael's College. He is known for his book about linear algebra that is available fordownloading with LaTeX source and for his...

17. Cyrus Derman (1925)

American Mathematician

Cyrus Derman was an American mathematician and amateur musician who did research in Markov decision process stochastic processes operations research statistics and a variety of other fields.

18. Robert Coveyou (1915)

American Mathematician

Robert R. Coveyou was an American research mathematician who worked at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

19. Murray Rosenblatt (1926)

American Mathematician

Murray Rosenblatt is a statistician specializing in time series analysis who is a Professor of mathematics at University of California San Diego. He received his Ph. D. at Cornell University....

20. Noam Elkies (1966)

American Mathematician

Noam David Elkies is an American mathematician and chess master. In 1981 at age 14 Elkies was awarded a gold medal at the 22nd International Mathematical Olympiad receiving a perfect...

21. Murray Gerstenhaber (1927)

American Mathematician

Murray Gerstenhaber is an American mathematician professor of mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania best known for his contributions to theoretical physics with his discovery of Gerstenhaber algebra.

22. Thomas Callister Hales (1958)

American Mathematician

Thomas Callister Hales is an American mathematician working on the Langlands program. He is known in the area for having worked on the fundamental lemma and proving a special case...

23. Michael J. Hopkins (1958)

American Mathematician

Michael Jerome Hopkins is an American mathematician known for work in algebraic topology.

24. Adriano Garsia (1928)

American Mathematician

Adriano Mario Garsia is an Italian American mathematician who works in combinatorics representation theory and algebraic geometry a student of Charles Loewner.

25. Burton Wendroff (1930)

American Mathematician

Burton Wendroff is an American applied mathematician and an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of New Mexico. He is also a retired Fellow and Associate...

26. Louis de Branges de Bourcia (1932)

American Mathematician

Louis de Branges de Bourcia is a French-American mathematician. He is the Edward C. Elliott Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Purdue University in West Lafayette Indiana. He is best known...

27. Avner Friedman (1932)

American Mathematician

Avner Friedman is Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Physical Sciences at Ohio State University. His primary field of research is partial differential equations with interests in stochastic processes mathematical modeling...

28. Morris Hirsch (1933)

American Mathematician

Morris William Hirsch is an American mathematician formerly at the University of California Berkeley. A native of Chicago Illinois Hirsch attained his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1958...

29. James Glimm (1934)

American Mathematician

James Gilbert Glimm is an American mathematical physicist and Professor at Stony Brook University. James Glimm was born in Peoria Illinois USA on 24 March 1934.

30. Gloria Conyers Hewitt (Unknow)

American Mathematician

Gloria Conyers Hewitt is an African-American mathematician. She was the third African-American woman to receive a PhD in Mathematics.

31. Howard Jerome Keisler (1936)

American Mathematician

H. Jerome Keisler is an American mathematician currently professor emeritus at University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research has included model theory and non-standard analysis. His Ph. D.

32. Underwood Dudley (1937)

American Mathematician

Underwood Dudley is a mathematician formerly of DePauw University who has written a number of research works and textbooks but is best known for his popular writing. Most notable are...

33. John Benedetto (1939)

American Mathematician

John Joseph Benedetto is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Maryland College Park and is a leading researcher in wavelet analysis and Director of the Norbert Wiener Center...

34. John B. Conway (1939)

American Mathematician

John Bligh Conway is an American mathematician. He is currently a professor emeritus at the George Washington University. His specialty is functional analysis particularly bounded operators on a Hilbert space....

35. Richard A. Tapia (1939)

American Mathematician

Richard Alfred Tapia is a renowned American mathematician and champion of under-represented minorities in the sciences. In recognition of his broad contributions in 2005 Tapia was named University Professor at...

36. Richard A. Brualdi (1939)

American Mathematician

R. A. Brualdi is a professor emeritus of combinatorial mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Brualdi received his Ph. D. from Syracuse University in 1964; his advisor was H. J....

37. Bruce C. Berndt (1939)

American Mathematician

Bruce Carl Berndt is an American mathematician. Berndt attended college at Albion College graduating in 1961 where he also ran track. He received his master's and doctoral degrees from the...

38. Linda Keen (1940)

American Mathematician

Linda Jo Goldway Keen is a mathematician and Professor of Mathematics and Computer science at Lehman College and the Graduate Center of City University of New York where she has...

39. Jerome Goldstein (1941)

American Mathematician

Jerome Arthur Goldstein is an American mathematician whose main interests are partial differential equations operator theory stochastic analysis fluid dynamics quantum theory and mathematical finance.

40. Ron Larson (1941)

American Mathematician

Roland Ron Edwin Larson is a professor of mathematics at Penn State Erie The Behrend College Pennsylvania. He is best known for being the author of a series of widely...

41. George Glauberman (1941)

American Mathematician

George Glauberman is a mathematician at the University of Chicago who works on finite simple groups. He proved the ZJ theorem and the Z* theorem. Glauberman did his undergraduate studies...

42. Carl Jockusch (1941)

American Mathematician

Carl Groos Jockusch Jr. is an American mathematician. Born in San Antonio Texas he is a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 1972 Jockusch and...

43. Erhan Çinlar (1941)

American Mathematician

Erhan Çinlar is a probabilist and the Norman J. Sollenberger Professor in Engineering at Princeton University. He is member of the operations research and financial engineering department at Princeton University.

44. Michael Harris (mathematician) (Unknow)

American Mathematician

Michael Howard Harris is an American mathematician. He made notable contributions to the Langlands program for which he won the 2007 Clay Research Award. In particular he proved the local...

45. Stanley Osher (1942)

American Mathematician

Stanley Osher is an American mathematician known for his many contributions in shock capturing level set methods and PDE-based methods in computer vision and image processing. Osher is a professor...

46. Robert Strichartz (1943)

American Mathematician

Robert Stephen Strichartz is an American mathematician specializing in mathematical analysis. In 1966 Strichartz received his PhD from Princeton University under Elias Stein with thesis Multipliers on generalized Sobolev spaces....

47. Gabriel Carroll (1982)

American Mathematician

Gabriel Drew Carroll was recognized as a child prodigy and received numerous awards in mathematics while a student. He graduated from Harvard with B. A. in mathematics and linguistics in...

48. James Lepowsky (1944)

American Mathematician

James Lepowsky is a professor of mathematics at Rutgers University New Jersey. Previously he taught at Yale University. He received his Ph. D from M. I. T. in 1970 where...

49. Vance Faber (1944)

American Mathematician

Vance Faber is a mathematician known for his work in combinatorics applied linear algebra and image processing. Faber received his Ph. D. in 1971 from Washington University in Saint Louis....

50. Richard P. Stanley (1944)

American Mathematician

Richard Peter Stanley is the Norman Levinson Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge Massachusetts. He received his Ph. D. at Harvard University in 1971...