Edmund Landau

Edmund Landau

male, deceased (1938)
Handbuch, Jewish, number theory, University of Berlin, complex analysis, habilitation…analytic number theory, prime number theorem, Erdős number 2, Number theorist
Edmund Georg Hermann (Yehezkel) Landau was a German Jewish mathematician and author of over 250 papers on number theory. Edmund Landau was born in...

James Massey

male, 75 years old
University of Notre Dame, Member of the ETH Zurich, idea, Ph.D., Erdős number 2, Berlekamp-Massey algorithm
James Lee Massey (born in 1934 in Wauseon, Ohio) is an information theorist and cryptographer, Professor Emeritus of Digital Technology at ETH...
Eric Lander

Eric Lander

male, 52 years old (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
biology, professor, whitehead institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Broad Institute, MIT…Erdős number 2, quasiperfect number
Eric Steven Lander (b. February 3, 1957) is a Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a member of the Whitehead...

Norman Levinson

male, deceased (1975)
Jewish, signal processing, Master's Degree, American Mathematical Society, Erdős number 2, Bôcher Memorial Prize…number theory
Norman Levinson was an American mathematician. Some of his major contributions were in the study of Fourier transforms, complex analysis,...
Richard Bellman

Richard Bellman

male, deceased (1984)
Jewish American, scientist, University of Wisconsin-Madison, mathematics, University of Wisconsin, City University of New York…Erdős number 2
Richard Ernest Bellman was an applied mathematician, celebrated for his invention of dynamic programming in 1953, and important contributions in...
Jean-Pierre Serre

Jean-Pierre Serre

male, 83 years old
Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Abel Prize, mathematician, Fields Medalist, Erdős number 2, topologist…number theory, Number theorist
Jean-Pierre Serre (born September 15, 1926) is one of the leading mathematicians of the twentieth century, active in algebraic geometry, number...

Roger Hui

male
Chinese Canadian, J programming language, I. P. Sharp Associates, Programmer, IPSA employee, apl…Erdős number 2
Roger Hui was co-developer of the J Programming Language. He was born in Hong Kong in 1953 and he immigrated to Canada with his entire family in...

George Andrews

male
Erdős number 2, combinatorics, mathematical analysis, integer partition, Ramanujan's lost notebook, The Theory of Partitions…Number theorist
George Eyre Andrews is an American mathematician working in analysis and combinatorics. He is currently a Evan Pugh Professor of Mathematics at...
Leonard Adleman

Leonard Adleman

male, 63 years old (Northridge, California, United States)
dna, NP-complete, boolean satisfiability problem, 3-SAT, modern cryptographer, RSA…Erdős number 2
Leonard Max Adleman (born December 31, 1945) is a theoretical computer scientist and professor of computer science and molecular biology at the...
Oded Goldreich

Oded Goldreich

male (Israel)
theory of computing, randomness, mathematics, computer scientist, cryptography, modern cryptographer…Erdős number 2
Oded Goldreich is a professor of Computer Science at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. His...