Abraham Wald

Abraham Wald

male, deceased (1950)
Jewish, Jewish person, Erdős number 2, scientist, Plane crash victim, Cowles Commission for Research in Economics
Abraham Wald was a mathematician born in Kolozsvár, Hungary (now Cluj, Romania) who contributed to decision theory, geometry, and econometrics, a...
Jon Barwise

Jon Barwise

male, deceased (2000)
Erdős number 2, American, Indiana University, Logician, mathematician, natural language
Kenneth Jon Barwise (June 29, 1942 - March 5, 2000) was a U.S. mathematician, philosopher and logician who proposed some fundamental revisions to...
Elias M. Stein

Elias M. Stein

male, 78 years old
Albert Baldwin Dod Professor, Stein complementary series representation, Princeton University, Rolf Schock Prize laureate, Jewish person, mathematics…Erdős number 2
Elias Menachem Stein (born January 13, 1931) is the Albert Baldwin Dod Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University. Born in Belgium, Stein...
Alan Baker

Alan Baker

male, 70 years old
Adams Prize recipient, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Fields Medal, Ambassadors to Canada, transcendence theory, diophantine geometry…Effective results in number theory, Number theorist, Erdős number 2, number theory
Alan Baker (born on August 19 1939) is an English mathematician. He was born in London. He is known for his work on effective methods in number...
Samuel Eilenberg

Samuel Eilenberg

male, deceased (1998)
Warsaw University alumni, American, X-machine, Polish-American, mathematician, Eilenberg telescope…Erdős number 2
Samuel Eilenberg was a Polish mathematician. He was born in Warsaw, Russian Empire (now Poland) and died in New York, USA where he had spent much...
Atle Selberg

Atle Selberg

male, 92 years old
norwegian, mathematician, Number theorist, second world war, riemann zeta function, proof…Erdős number 2, analytic number theory, prime number theorem
Atle Selberg (born in Langesund June 14, 1917) is a Norwegian mathematician known for his work in analytic number theory, and in the theory of...
Anatoly Vershik

Anatoly Vershik

male, 75 years old
Jewish, combinatorist, Erdős number 2, representation theory, Steklov Institute of Mathematics, symmetric group
Anatoly Moiseevich Vershik (born on 28 December, 1933 in Leningrad) is a Russian mathematician. He is most famous for his joint work with Sergey V....
Alexander Razborov

Alexander Razborov

male
natural proof, One-way function, Gödel Prize, computational complexity, Gödel Prize laureate, Erdős number 2
Alexander Razborov is a Russian mathematician and computational theorist who won the Nevanlinna Prize in 1990 and the Gödel Prize in 2007 for his w...

James Aspnes

male (New Haven, Connecticut, United States)
Erdős number 2, Yale University, TinyMUD, mud, Carnegie Mellon University, Professor of Computer Science
James Aspnes is a professor in Computer Science at Yale University. He got his PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1992. His...
Jacob Wolfowitz

Jacob Wolfowitz

male, deceased (1981)
Warsaw, Poland, Jewish, World Bank Group, Claude E. Shannon Award, Shannon Award, myocardial infarction…Erdős number 2
Jacob Wolfowitz, Ph.D. (March 19, 1910 - July 16, 1981) was a Polish-born American statistician and Shannon Award-winning information theorist. He...