Nassim Taleb

Nassim Taleb

male, 49 years old (Amherst, Massachusetts, United States)
black swan theory, Wall Street, Epistemologist, Fooled by Randomness, Erdős number 4, Derivative
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (b. 1960) (alternative spellings of first name: Nessim or Nissim) is an essayist, philosopher of randomness, researcher, and...
Mikio Sato

Mikio Sato

male, 81 years old
Rolf Schock Prize laureate, Fourier theory, harmonic analysis, partial differential equation, distribution, kyoto university…number theory, Erdős number 4
Mikio Sato is a Japanese mathematician, working in what he calls "algebraic analysis". He studied at the University of Tokyo, and then did graduate...

Ioan James

male, 81 years old
Senior Whitehead Prize, London Mathematical Society, Fellow of the Royal Society, Ioan Mackenzie James, Savilian chair of geometry, Some problems in algebraic topology…Erdős number 4
Ioan Mackenzie James (born May 23, 1928) is a British mathematician working in the field of topology particularly in homotopy theory. He is a...
Bruno Buchberger

Bruno Buchberger

male, 67 years old
Gröbner bases, mathematician, Austrian, university of nijmegen, linz, West University of Timisoara…Erdős number 4
Bruno Buchberger is Professor of Computer Mathematics at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria. In his 1965 Ph.D. thesis, he created the...
Nigel Hitchin

Nigel Hitchin

male, 63 years old
Wolfson College, D.Phil., Wolfson College, Oxford, Jesus College, Oxford, Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford, Alumni of Wolfson College, Oxford…Erdős number 4
Nigel Hitchin (b. August 2 1946 in Holbrook, Derbyshire) is a British mathematician working in the field of differential geometry and algebraic...
Geoff Smith

Geoff Smith

male, 56 years old
mathematician, Geoffrey Charles Smith, Daniel Segal, International Mathematical Olympiad, Academic of the University of Bath, group theory…Erdős number 4
Geoffrey Charles Smith (b. 1953) is a British mathematician and Senior Lecturer of Mathematics at the University of Bath. He is noted for his...
J. W. Alexander

J. W. Alexander

male, deceased (1971)
Princeton University, Rockies, mathematician, Princeton University faculty, algebraic topology, mountaineer…Erdős number 4
James Waddell Alexander II was an important topologist of the pre-WWII era and part of an influential Princeton topology elite, which included...
Gauss Moutinho Cordeiro

Gauss Moutinho Cordeiro

male, 57 years old
mathematician, Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, Associação Brasileira de Estatística, Erdős number 4, statistical inference, Brazilian
Gauss Moutinho Cordeiro is a Brazilian mathematician and statistician who has given a significant contribution to the theory of statistical...

Vladimir Drinfel'D

male, 55 years old
Jewish person, algebraic curve, Yang-Mills, quantum group, International Mathematics Olympiad, Vladimir Gershonovich Drinfel'd…Erdős number 4, Number theorist, number theory
Vladimir Gershonovich Drinfel'd is a mathematician born February 4, 1954 in the Ukrainian SSR. At the age of 15 he won a gold medal with the...

André Weil

male, deceased (1998)
Jewish, mathematician, Number theorist, Alumni of the École Normale Supérieure, French, algebraic geometry…number theory, Erdős number 4
André Weil was one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century, whether measured by his research work, its influence on future work, e...