List of Jewish American mathematicians
This is a list of famous Jewish American mathematicians. For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.
- Milton Abramowitz, mathematician *
- Abraham Adrian Albert, abstract algebra *[1]
- Kenneth Appel, four-color problem [2]
- Robert Aumann, mathematician in game theory; Nobel Prize in Economics (2005)
- Richard Bellman, dynamic programming *
- Lipman Bers, non-linear elliptic equations [3]
- Salomon Bochner, harmonic analysis *
- Raoul Bott, geometry (Jewish mother) *
- Richard Brauer, modular representation theory *
- Eugenio Calabi, differential geometry *
- Paul Cohen, set theorist, Fields Medal (1966) *
- Richard Courant, mathematician *
- George Dantzig, simplex algorithm *
- Martin Davis, mathematician *
- Persi Diaconis, statistician (Jewish mother) *
- Jesse Douglas, mathematician, Fields Medal (1936) [4]
- Samuel Eilenberg, category theorist *
- Noam Elkies, mathematician * [5]
- Charles Fefferman, mathematician, Fields Medal (1978) *
- Mitchell Feigenbaum, chaos theorist [6]
- William Feller, probability theory [7]
- Michael Freedman, mathematician, Fields Medal (1986) (Jewish father) *
- Dorian Goldfeld, number theorist, Cole Prize *
- Michael Golomb, theory of approximation [8]
- Solomon Golomb, polyominoes [9]
- Dovid Gottlieb, mathematition
- Paul Halmos, mathematician *
- E. Morton Jellinek, biostatistician [10]
- Mark Kac, mathematician *
- Irving Kaplansky, mathematician *
- Edward Kasner, mathematician [11]
- Nick Katz, algebraic geometry *
- Joseph B. Keller, applied mathematician, National Medal of Science, Wolf Prize, Royal Society (Foreign Member)
- Martin Kruskal, mathematician *
- Cornelius Lanczos, mathematician and mathematical physicist [12]
- Peter Lax, mathematician, Abel Prize (2005) *
- Solomon Lefschetz, algebraic topology *
- Emma Lehmer, mathematician [13]
- Norman Levinson, mathematician *
- George Lusztig, representation theory *
- Barry Mazur, mathematician *
- Ernest A. Michael, general topology *
- Louis Mordell, number theorist *
- Boris Mordukhovich, variational analysis *
- John von Neumann, mathematician [14]
- Emanuel Parzen, mathematician
- George Pólya, mathematician *
- Emil Post, logician *
- Herbert Robbins, statistician *
- Abraham Robinson, nonstandard analysis *
- Arthur Rubin, mathematician
- Shlomo Sawilowsky, statistician
- Gary Seitz, mathematician *
- Isadore Singer, mathematician, Abel Prize (2004) *
- Richard P. Stanley, mathematician *
- Elias Stein, mathematician *
- Shlomo Sternberg, mathematician
- Stanislaw Ulam, mathematician *
- André Weil, mathematician *
- Norbert Wiener, mathematician, Bôcher Memorial Prize, National Medal of Science *
- Edward Witten, M-theory, Fields Medal (1990) *
- Oscar Zariski, algebraic geometry *
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ "A. A. Albert", D. Zelinsky, The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 80, No. 6 (Jun. - Jul., 1973), pp. 661-665: "He was the son of a Jewish family that came to America from England"
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- ↑ http://www.jinfo.org/Mathematics_Comp.html
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- ↑ "Mathematicians under the Nazis" by Prof Sanford Segal of the University of Rochester (Princeton University Press, 2003, p460): "...Tornier had collaborated with Willi Feller (who was Jewish)..."
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- ↑ Columbia University: "Edward Kasner (CCNY 1897; CU MA, 1897; PhD 1900) appointed Tutor on Mathematics Department; first Jew appointed to faculty position in sciences. The 4th of Low’s 4 Jewish appointments." Accessed 5 may 2007.
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External links
- Comprehensive list - from JINFO.ORG; names that can be sourced there are starred *
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