John von Neumann

John von Neumann

male, deceased (1957)
genius, universal constructor, convert to Roman Catholicism, Pancreatic cancer death, Bone cancer death, American…Jewish American, President of the American Mathematical Society, AmericanMathematicalSociety
John von Neumann (born Margittai Neumann János Lajos on December 28, 1903 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary; died February 8, 1957 in Washington D.C., U...
Avi Wigderson

Avi Wigderson

male
Princeton University, professor, Israeli, mathematician, computer scientist, princeton…AmericanMathematicalSociety
Avi Wigderson is an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist who received the Nevanlinna Prize in 1994 for his work on computational...
David Eisenbud

David Eisenbud

male, 62 years old (Berkeley, California, United States)
Harvard University, Erdős number 2, University of California, Berkeley faculty, MSRI, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, commutative algebra…AmericanMathematicalSociety, American
David Eisenbud (born 8 April, 1947) is an American mathematician. He is currently Director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and a...
Barry Mazur

Barry Mazur

male, 71 years old (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
Jewish person, MIT, ROTC, modular curve, Bronx High School of Science, Galois deformation…American, AmericanMathematicalSociety
Barry Mazur (born December 19, 1937) is a professor of mathematics at Harvard University. Born in New York, New York, Mazur attended the Bronx High...
Peter Sarnak

Peter Sarnak

male, 55 years old (Princeton, New Jersey, United States)
Erdős number 2, Institute for Advanced Study, Jewish, Peter Clive Sarnak, Paul Cohen, Annals of Mathematics…American, Fellow of the Royal Society, AmericanMathematicalSociety
Peter Clive Sarnak (born 18 December, 1953, Johannesburg) is a South African-born mathematician. He has been Eugene Higgins Professor of...
Julia Robinson

Julia Robinson

female, deceased (1985)
Raphael Robinson, Noether Lecturer, MacArthur Fellowship, scientist, leukemia, diophantine equation…American, AmericanMathematicalSociety
Julia Hall Bowman Robinson was an American mathematician, born in St. Louis, Missouri. She completed her undergraduate and graduate degrees at...
Bruce C. Berndt

Bruce C. Berndt

male, 70 years old
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign faculty, Albion College alumni, Erdős number 2, Doctoral, Steele Prize, analytic number theory…AmericanMathematicalSociety, American
Bruce Carl Berndt (born March 13, 1939, in St. Joseph, Michigan) is an American mathematician. He attended college at Albion College, graduating in...
Linda Keen

Linda Keen

female, 69 years old
Columbia University, Institute for Advanced Study, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, CUNY Graduate Center, Fuchsian group, complex analysis…AmericanMathematicalSociety, American
Linda Jo Goldway Keen (born 9 August 1940 in New York City, New York) is a mathematician. After receiving her BS degree from the City College of...

David Eugene Smith

male, deceased (1944)
Syracuse University, from New York, Academic, Bibliographer, Non-fiction writer, book editor…American, AmericanMathematicalSociety
David Eugene Smith, Ph.D., LL.D. (1860-1944) was an American mathematician and educator. Born in Cortland, New York, he attended Syracuse...
James Glimm

James Glimm

male (New York, New York, United States)
James Gilbert Glimm, Columbia University, National Medal of Science, quantum field theory, fluid dynamics, State University of New York faculty…mathematical physicist, American, AmericanMathematicalSociety
James Gilbert Glimm is an American mathematical physicist, and Professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He received his Ph.D....