Henri Poincaré

male, deceased (1912)
Relativists, eidetic memory, Chaos theorist, principle of relativity, topologist, three-body problem…pure mathematics, AppliedMathematics
Jules Henri Poincaré was one of France's greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists, and a philosopher of science. Poincaré is often de...
Richard Courant

Richard Courant

male, deceased (1972)
Jewish person, German American, German native of Silesia, finite element method, breslau, World War I…AppliedMathematics
Richard Courant (born January 8, 1888 - January 27, 1972) was a German American mathematician.
Erwin Kreyszig

Erwin Kreyszig

male, 87 years old
Ohio State University, mathematician, American, Ohio State University faculty, textbook, AppliedMathematics…Advanced Engineering Mathematics, engineering mathematics
Erwin Kreyszig (born January 6 1922) was a Professor of Mathematics at Ohio State University. He is a pioneer in the relatively new field of...
Peter Norvig

Peter Norvig

male, 53 years old
computer scientist, Google Inc., Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, American, NASA Ames Research Center, Sun Microsystems Laboratories…AppliedMathematics
Peter Norvig is an American computer scientist. He is currently the Director of Research (formerly Director of Search Quality) at Google Inc.. He...
Richard Karp

Richard Karp

male, 74 years old (Berkeley, California, United States)
Turing Award laureate, Erdős number 2, Association for Computing Machinery, fellow, Harvard Centennial Medal recipient, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery…AppliedMathematics
Richard M. Karp was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1935 and was educated at the Boston Latin School and Harvard University, where he received his...
Bernard Chazelle

Bernard Chazelle

male, 54 years old (Princeton, New Jersey, United States)
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Erdős number 2, INRIA, AppliedMathematics, Ecole Normale Superieure, Ecole des Mines de Paris
Bernard Chazelle (born November 5, 1955) is a professor of computer science at Princeton University. Although he is best known for his invention of...
Steven Strogatz

Steven Strogatz

male (Ithaca, New York, United States)
nature, Marshall Scholar, Loomis Chaffee, Trinity College, Cambridge, Complex network, small-world networks…AppliedMathematics, applied, Applied Mathematician, Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Steven H. Strogatz (born August 13, 1959) is an American mathematician and the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell...
James Lighthill

James Lighthill

male, deceased (1998)
Academic of the University of Manchester, AppliedMathematics, mathematician, British, Applied Mathematician, Aeroacoustics
Sir Michael James Lighthill FRS (23 January 1924 - 17 July 1998) was a British applied mathematician, known for his pioneering work in the field of...
Richard Bellman

Richard Bellman

male, deceased (1984)
Jewish American, scientist, University of Wisconsin-Madison, mathematics, University of Wisconsin, City University of New York…Applied Mathematician, AppliedMathematics
Richard Ernest Bellman was an applied mathematician, celebrated for his invention of dynamic programming in 1953, and important contributions in...