Peter Lax

Peter Lax

male, 83 years old
ph.d, Scientific computing, New York University, Erdős number 3, National Medal of Science recipient, National Medal of Science…National Academy of Sciences, USA, CourantInstituteofMathematicalSciences
Peter David Lax (born May 1, 1926, Budapest, Hungary) is a highly-respected mathematician working in the areas of pure and applied mathematics. He...

Jefferson Y. Han

male
Cornell University, electrical engineering, YouTube, CU-SeeMe, touch-screen, autonomous robot…CourantInstituteofMathematicalSciences
Jefferson Y. Han is a research scientist for New York University's (NYU) Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and one of the main developers...
Richard Courant

Richard Courant

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

Louis Nirenberg

male, 84 years old
New York University, Crafoord Prize, Bôcher Prize, Canadian expatriate academic in the United States, National Medal of Science, National Medal of Science recipient…CourantInstituteofMathematicalSciences, Member of the French Academy of Sciences
Louis Nirenberg is a Canadian-born mathematician, known for his work on partial differential equations. He was born in Hamilton, Ontario. He...
Joel Spencer

Joel Spencer

male, 63 years old
New York University, Harvard University, combinatorialist, Ramsey theory, combinatorics, combinatorist…CourantInstituteofMathematicalSciences
Joel Spencer (born April 20, 1946) is an American mathematician. He is a combinatorialist who has worked on probabilistic methods in combinatorics...
Jeff Cheeger

Jeff Cheeger

male, 65 years old
New York University, professor, mathematician, Harvard University alumni, American, topology…CourantInstituteofMathematicalSciences, mathematical analysis, Courant Institute
Jeff Cheeger (b. December 1, 1943, Brooklyn, New York City), is a mathematician. Cheeger is professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical...

S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan

male, 69 years old
New York University, Erdős number 2, Steele Prize, Abel Prize, probabilist, large deviations…CourantInstituteofMathematicalSciences, Indian Statistical Institute, American Mathematical Society, university of madras, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Sathamangalam Ravi Srinivasa Varadhan is an Indian-American probabilist. He was born January 2 1940 in Madras (Chennai), India. He received his...
Jack Schwartz

Jack Schwartz

male
Yale University, CourantInstituteofMathematicalSciences, quantum field theory, SETL, program verification, time-sharing…City College of New York, national academy of science, national academy of engineering
Jacob T. Schwartz (Jack) is an United States mathematician, computer scientist, and professor of computer science at the New York University...
Daniel W. Stroock

Daniel W. Stroock

male, 69 years old
Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Probability theorist, mathematician, Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty, Harvard University alumni…National Academy of Sciences, CourantInstituteofMathematicalSciences, University of Colorado, Boulder
Daniel W. Stroock (born March 20, 1940 in New York City) is an American probabilist. He received his undergraduate degreee from Harvard University...