Terence Tao

Terence Tao

male, 34 years old
Chinese American, Fellow of the Royal Society, From Adelaide, Chinese Australian, child prodigy, University of California, Los Angeles…Fields Medal, FieldsMedalist
Terence Chi-Shen Tao is an Australian mathematician working primarily on harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, combinatorics, analytic...
Alain Connes

Alain Connes

male, 62 years old
Nashville, Bures-sur-Yvette, IHES, Erdős number 3, College de France, FieldsMedalist
Alain Connes was born in Draguignan, a town near Cannes in the Provence- Alpes-Cote-d'Azur region of southeast France. He entered the Ecole Normale...
Edward Witten

Edward Witten

male, 58 years old (United States)
Jewish person, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, American, m-theory, FieldsMedalist, string theorist…Fields Medal
Edward Witten (born August 26, 1951) is an American mathematical physicist, Fields Medalist, and professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. He...
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…FieldsMedalist
Shing-Tung Yau (born April 4, 1949) is a prominent mathematician working in differential geometry, and involved in the theory of Calabi-Yau manifolds.
Michael Freedman

Michael Freedman

male, 58 years old
Microsoft Research, Doctor of Philosophy, Ph.D., Princeton University, National Medal of Science recipient, Poincaré conjecture…Fields Medal, FieldsMedalist
Michael Hartley Freedman is a mathematician at Microsoft Research. In 1986, he was awarded a Fields Medal for his work on the Poincaré conjecture, o...
Andrei Okounkov

Andrei Okounkov

male, 40 years old (Princeton, New Jersey, United States)
Princeton University, University of California, Berkeley, International Congress of Mathematician, University of California, Berkeley faculty, Erdős number 3, probability theory…Fields Medal, FieldsMedalist
Andrei Okounkov is a mathematician who works on representation theory and its applications to algebraic geometry, mathematical physics, probability...
Michael Atiyah

Michael Atiyah

male, 80 years old
Old Mancunian, lebanese, british humanist association, Atiyah-Singer index theorem, Order of Merit, Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge…Fields Medal, FieldsMedalist
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, OM, FRS (b. April 22, 1929) is a British-Lebanese mathematician, widely considered one of the greatest geometers of the...
Wendelin Werner

Wendelin Werner

male, 41 years old
Loève Prize, Fermat Prize, Fields Medal, random walk, Oded Schramm, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie…FieldsMedalist
Wendelin Werner is a German-born French mathematician working in the area of self-avoiding random walks, Schramm-Loewner evolution, and related...
William Thurston

William Thurston

male, 63 years old
New College of Florida alumni, William Paul Thurston, low-dimensional topology, Fields Medal, University of California, Davis, University of California, Berkeley faculty…FieldsMedalist
William Paul Thurston (born October 30, 1946) is an American mathematician. He is a pioneer in the field of low-dimensional topology. In 1982, he...
David Mumford

David Mumford

male, 72 years old (Boston, Massachusetts, United States)
Brown University faculty, FieldsMedalist, Putnam Fellow, Phillips Exeter Academy alumni, Harvard University faculty, Harvard University alumni
David Bryant Mumford (born 11 June 1937) is an American mathematician known for distinguished work in algebraic geometry, and then for research...