Karol Borsuk

Karol Borsuk

male, deceased (1982)
Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Erdős number 2, Warsaw University alumni, Ph.D., From Warsaw, doctorate
Karol Borsuk (May 8, 1905, Warsaw - January 24, 1982, Warsaw) was a Polish mathematician. His main interest was topology. Borsuk introduced the...
Nuel Belnap

Nuel Belnap

male, 79 years old
Erdős number 2, University of Pittsburgh, temporal logic, The Revision Theory of Truth, structural proof theory, Nuel D. Belnap, Jr
Nuel D. Belnap, Jr. (born 1930) is an American logician and philosopher who has made many important contributions to the philosophy of logic,...
Elwyn Berlekamp

Elwyn Berlekamp

male, 69 years old
mathematician, University of California, Berkeley faculty, Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays, Reed-Solomon error correction, Berlekamp-Massey algorithm, combinatorial game theory…Erdős number 2
Elwyn Ralph Berlekamp (born September 6, 1940 in Dover, Ohio, United States) is a professor of mathematics at the University of California,...
Neil Immerman

Neil Immerman

male
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Turing Award, descriptive complexity, Immerman-Szelepcsényi theorem, Gödel Prize, University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty…Erdős number 2
Neil Immerman is one of the key developers of descriptive complexity, an approach he is currently applying to research in model checking, database...

Keith Devlin

male
Keith J. Devlin, Erdős number 2, Set theorist, Weekend Edition, Center for the Study of Language and Information, English
Keith J. Devlin is an English mathematician and writer. He currently is Executive Director of Stanford University's Center for the Study of...
Stephen Wolfram

Stephen Wolfram

male, 50 years old
mathematica, MacArthur Fellow, Old Etonian, Old Dragon, Chaos theorist, Cellular automatists…Erdős number 2
Stephen Wolfram is a scientist, author, and business leader. He is the creator of Mathematica , the author of A New Kind of Science , and the...
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
Peter Clive Sarnak (born 18 December, 1953, Johannesburg) is a South African-born mathematician. He has been Eugene Higgins Professor of...
Charles Fefferman

Charles Fefferman

male, 60 years old
Jewish person, child prodigy, Princeton University, PhD, mathematician, Princeton University alumni…Erdős number 2
Charles Louis Fefferman (born April 18, 1949) is a renowned American mathematician at Princeton University. A child prodigy, Fefferman entered...
Shing-Tung Yau

Shing-Tung Yau

male, 60 years old
Stanford University faculty, Chaoshanese, University of California, San Diego faculty, scientist, Harvard University faculty, University of California, Berkeley alumni…Erdős number 2
Shing-Tung Yau (born April 4, 1949) is a prominent mathematician working in differential geometry, and involved in the theory of Calabi-Yau manifolds.
Igor Pak

Igor Pak

male, 38 years old
Young tableau, From Moscow, combinatorist, Erdős number 2, Russian-American, MIT Mathematics Department…Erdős number
Igor Pak is an associate professor of mathematics at MIT, working in combinatorics and discrete probability. He is best known for his bijective...