Jewish Mathematician

Biographies of Members of the Jewish People

Jewish Mathematicians

Milton Abramowitz, mathematician *

Abraham Adrian Albert, abstract algebra *^[1]

Kenneth Appel, four-color problem [1]

Robert Aumann, mathematician game theory; Nobel Prize in Economics (2005)

Richard Bellman, dynamic programming *

Lipman Bers, non-linear elliptic equations [2]

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) [3]

Samuel Eilenberg, category theorist *

Noam Elkies, mathematician * ^[2]

Charles Fefferman, mathematician, Fields Medal (1978) *

Mitchell Feigenbaum, chaos theorist [4]

William Feller, probability theory ^[3]

Michael Freedman, mathematician, Fields Medal (1986) (Jewish father) *

Dorian Goldfeld, number theorist, Cole Prize *

Michael Golomb, theory of approximation [5]

Solomon Golomb, polyominoes [6]

Dovid Gottlieb, mathematition

Paul Halmos, mathematician *

E. Morton Jellinek, biostatistician [7]

Irving Kaplansky, mathematician *

Mark Kac, mathematician *

Edward Kasner, mathematician ^[4]

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 [8]

Peter Lax, mathematician, Abel Prize (2005) *

Solomon Lefschetz, algebraic topology *

Emma Lehmer, mathematician [9]

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 [10]

Emanuel Parzen, mathematician

George Pólya, mathematician *

Emil Post, logician *

Herbert Robbins, statistician *

Abraham Robinson, nonstandard analysis *

Arthur Rubin, mathematician

Shlomo Sawilowsky, statistician

Isadore Singer, mathematician, Abel Prize (2004) *

Gary Seitz, mathematician *

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

List of Jewish mathematicians

Footnotes

Jump up^ "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"

Jump up^ http://www.jinfo.org/Mathematics_Comp.html

Jump up^ "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)..."

Jump up^ 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.

External links

Comprehensive list - from JINFO.ORG; names that can be sourced there are starred *

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