- Shing-Tung Yau
Shing-Tung Yau (born April 4, 1949) is a prominent mathematician working in differential geometry, and involved in the theory of Calabi-Yau manifolds. - Benjamin Peirce
Benjamin Peirce, April 4, 1809 – October 6, 1880) was an American mathematician who taught at Harvard University for forty years. He made contributions to celestial mechanics, number theory, algebra, and the philosophy of mathematics. After graduating from Harvard, he became a tutor there (1829), then was appointed professor of mathematics in 1831. He added astronomy to his portfolio in 1842, and remained as Harvard professor until his death. - John Winthrop
John Winthrop was the 2nd Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Harvard College. He was a distinguished mathematician, physicist and astronomer, born in Boston, Mass. His great-great-grandfather, also named John Winthrop, was founder of the Massachusetts Bay colony. He graduated in 1732 at Harvard, where, from 1738 until his death he was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy. - David Mumford
David Bryant Mumford (born 11 June 1937) is an American mathematician known for distinguished work in algebraic geometry, and then for research into vision and pattern theory. He is currently a University Professor in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University, having previously had a long academic career at Harvard University. - Grace Hopper
Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper was an American computer scientist and United States Navy officer. A pioneer in the field, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I calculator, and she developed the first compiler for a computer programming language. Because of the breadth of her accomplishments and her naval rank, she is sometimes referred to as "Amazing Grace". - Persi Diaconis
Persi Warren Diaconis (born January 31, 1945) is an American mathematician and former professional magician. He is Mary V. Sunseri professor of statistics and professor of mathematics at Stanford University. He is particularly known for tackling mathematical problems involving randomness and randomization, such as coin flipping and shuffling playing cards. Professor Diaconis achieved brief national fame when he received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1979, … - Alexander Grothendieck
Alexander Grothendieck (born March 28, 1928 in Berlin, Germany) is one of the most important mathematicians of the 20th century. He is also one of its most extreme scientific personalities, with achievements over a short span of years which are still astounding in their broad scope and sheer bulk, and a lifestyle later in his career which alienated even close followers. He made major contributions to algebraic geometry, homological algebra, and functional analysis. - Barry Mazur
Barry Mazur (born December 19, 1937) is a professor of mathematics at Harvard University. Born in New York, New York, Mazur attended the Bronx High School of Science and MIT, although he did not graduate from the latter on account of failing a then-present ROTC requirement. Regardless, he was accepted for graduate school and received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1959, becoming a Junior Fellow at Harvard University from 1961-64. - Philip J. Davis
Philip J. Davis (1923, Lawrence, Massachusetts -) is an American applied mathematician. He is known for his work in numerical analysis and approximation theory, as well as his investigations in the history and philosophy of mathematics. Currently a Professor Emeritus from the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University, he earned his degrees in mathematics from Harvard University (Ph.D., 1950; advisor, Ralph P. Boas, … - Reuben Hersh
Reuben Hersh (born December 9 1927) is an American mathematician, now an emeritus professor of the University of New Mexico. He is best known for his books on the philosophy of mathematics and its social impact. His book "The Mathematical Experience", co-authored with Philip J. Davis, won the National Book Award in 1983. He received his B.A. in English literature from Harvard University, and did his graduate work in mathematics at New York University (Ph.D., … - Fred Brooks
Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. (born April 19, 1931) is a software engineer and computer scientist, best-known for managing the development of OS/360, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book "The Mythical Man-Month". "It is a very humbling experience to make a multi-million-dollar mistake, but it is also very memorable." Brooks received a Turing Award in 1999 and many other awards. Born in Durham, North Carolina, he attended Duke University, … - Steven Strogatz
Steven H. Strogatz (born August 13, 1959) is an American mathematician and the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University. He is known for his contributions to the study of synchronization in dynamical systems, and for his work in a variety of areas of applied mathematics, including mathematical biology and complex network theory. In particular, his 1998 Nature paper with Duncan Watts, entitled "Collective dynamics of small-world networks", … - Eric Lander
Eric Steven Lander (b. February 3, 1957) is a Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a member of the Whitehead Institute, and director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard who has devoted his career toward realizing the promise of the human genome for medicine. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1974 and then attended Princeton University. - Raoul Bott
Raoul Bott, FRS (born September 24 1923, died December 20 2005) was a mathematician known for numerous basic contributions to geometry in its broad sense. He was born in Budapest, grew up in Slovakia, but spent his working life in the United States. His family emigrated to Canada in 1938, and subsequently he served in the Canadian Army in Europe during World War II. He later went to college at McGill University in Montreal, … - Frederick Mosteller
Charles Frederick Mosteller (December 24, 1916 - July 23, 2006, usually known as Frederick Mosteller or Fred) was one of the most eminent statisticians of the 20th century. He was the founding chairman of Harvard's statistics department, from 1957 to 1971, and served as the president of several professional bodies including the Psychometric Society, the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, … - David Eisenbud
David Eisenbud (born 8 April, 1947) is an American mathematician. He is currently Director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. Eisenbud received his PhD in 1970 from the University of Chicago, where he was a student of Saunders Mac Lane and, unofficially, J. C. Robson. He then taught at Brandeis University from 1970 to 1997, during which time he had visiting positions at Harvard, IHES, … - Garrett Birkhoff
Garrett Birkhoff (January 19, 1911, Princeton, New Jersey, USA – November 22, 1996, Water Mill, New York, USA) was an American mathematician. The son of the mathematician George David Birkhoff, Garrett began the Harvard University BA course in 1928 after less than seven years of prior formal education. - John Tate
John Torrence Tate, born March 13, 1925 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is an American mathematician, distinguished for many fundamental contributions in algebraic number theory and related areas in algebraic geometry. He wrote a Ph.D. at Princeton in 1950 as a student of Emil Artin, was at Harvard University 1954-1990, and is now at the University of Texas at Austin. - Thomas Banchoff
Thomas F. Banchoff is a geometer, and a professor at Brown University since 1967. During the fall semester, 2008, he is teaching Math 35 , "Honors Multivariable Calculus." During the spring semester, 2008, he taught Math 104 , "Fundamental Problems in Geometry", which concentrated on Euclidean and non-Euclidean Geometry, with an emphasis on Spherical Geometry and Hyperbolic Geometry. - Noam Elkies
Noam D. Elkies (born 1966 in New York City) is a mathematician. While an undergraduate at Columbia University, he was a three-time Putnam Fellow. He won the 1982 competition at the age of sixteen years and four months, making him possibly the youngest Putnam Fellow in history. After graduating as valedictorian, he earned his Ph.D. under supervision of Benedict Gross and Barry Mazur at Harvard University. - Carl Pomerance
Carl Pomerance (born in 1944 in Joplin, Missouri) is a well known number theorist. He attended college at Brown University and later received his PhD from Harvard University in 1972 for his study that any odd perfect number N has at least 7 distinct prime factors. He immediately joined the faculty at the University of Georgia, becoming full professor in 1982. He subsequently worked at Lucent Technologies for a number of years, … - Hassler Whitney
Hassler Whitney (23 March 1907 - 10 May 1989) was an American mathematician. He was one of the founders of singularity theory. - George David Birkhoff
George David Birkhoff (21 March 1884, Overisel, Michigan - 12 November 1944, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American mathematician, best known for what is now called the ergodic theorem. Birkhoff was one of the most important leaders in American mathematics in his generation, and during his prime he was considered by many to be the preeminent American mathematician. The mathematician Garrett Birkhoff (1911-1996) was his son. - Lars Ahlfors
Lars Valerian Ahlfors was a Finnish mathematician, remembered for his work in the field of Riemann surfaces and his text on complex analysis. He was born in Helsinki, the son of a Professor of Engineering. He studied at Helsinki University from 1924, graduating in 1928 having studied under Ernst Lindelöf and Rolf Nevanlinna. He assisted Nevanlinna in 1929 with his work on Denjoy's conjecture on the number of asymptotic values of an entire function. - Richard Askey
Richard A. Askey is an American mathematician, known for his expertise in the area of special functions. The Askey-Wilson polynomials are an important schematic in organising the theory of special polynomials (his work with James Wilson). Askey earned a B.A. at Washington University in 1955, an M.A. at Harvard University in 1956, and a Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1961. - John Coates
Professor John Henry Coates, FRS (born January 26, 1945) is a mathematician who holds (since 1986) the position of Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Coates was born and grew up in Possum Brush in New South Wales, Australia, and studied at the Australian National University from which he gained a B.Sc. degree. He then moved to France, doing further study at the École Normale Superieure in Paris, … - Arthur Jaffe
Arthur Jaffe is an American mathematical physicist and a professor at Harvard University. Born on December 22, 1937 he attended Princeton University as an undergraduate, and later Clare College, Cambridge, obtaining degrees in chemistry and then in mathematics. He then returned to Princeton, obtaining a doctorate in physics. With James Glimm, he founded the subject called constructive quantum field theory. - Phillip Griffiths
Phillip Griffiths (born 1938) is a American mathematician, known for his work in the field of geometry, and in particular for the complex manifold approach to algebraic geometry. He was a major developer in particular of the theory of variation of Hodge structure in Hodge theory and moduli theory. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1962 working under Donald Spencer and since then has held positions at Berkeley (1962-1967), Princeton (1967-1972), … - Marston Morse
Marston Morse was an American mathematician best known for his work on the calculus of variations in the large, a subject where he introduced the technique of differential topology now known as Morse theory. In 1933 he was awarded the Bôcher Memorial Prize for his work in mathematical analysis. Harold Calvin Marston Morse was born in Waterville, Maine to Ella Phoebe Marston and Howard Calvin Morse in 1892. - Ravi Vakil
Ravi D. Vakil (born February 22, 1970, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian-American mathematician. Vakil attended high school at Martingrove Collegiate Institute in Etobicoke, Ontario, where he won several mathematical contests and olympiads. After earning a BSc and MSc from the University of Toronto in 1992, he completed a Ph.D. in mathematics at Harvard University in 1997. He has since been an instructor at both Princeton University and MIT. - Neal Koblitz
Neal Koblitz is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Washington in the Department of Mathematics. He is also an adjunct professor with the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research. He is the creator of hyperelliptic curve cryptography and the independent co-creator of elliptic curve cryptography. Professor Koblitz received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University, where he was a Putnam Fellow, in 1968. - Howard Eves
Howard Whitley Eves was an American mathematician, known for his work in geometry and the history of mathematics. Eves received his B.S. from the University of Virginia, the M.A. from Harvard University, and the Ph.D. in mathematics from Oregon State University in 1948. In 1936–1937, while at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, he befriended Albert Einstein. He then spent most of his career at the University of Maine at Orono, 1954–1976. - Haskell Curry
Haskell Brooks Curry was an American mathematician and logician. The son of educator Samuel Silas Curry, he was educated at Harvard University and received a Ph.D. from Göttingen in 1930, under the supervision of David Hilbert. While at Göttingen, Curry read the published version of Moses Schönfinkel's 1920 lecture introducing combinatory logic, the fateful event in his career. He then wrote his Ph.D. thesis on combinatory logic. - Heisuke Hironaka
Heisuke Hironaka is a Japanese mathematician. After completing his undergraduate studies at Kyoto University, he received his Ph. D. from Harvard while under the direction of Oscar Zariski. He won the Fields Medal in 1970. He is celebrated for proving in 1964 that singularities of algebraic varieties admit resolutions in characteristic zero. This means that any projective variety can be replaced by a similar one (i.e. birationally equivalent) which has no singularities. - Karen Uhlenbeck
Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck (born August 24, 1942 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a professor and Sid W. Richardson Regents Chairholder in the Department of Mathematics at The University of Texas in Austin. In 1998 she was selected to be a Noether Lecturer. In 2000, she became a recipient of the National Medal of Science. In 2007 she won the American Mathematical Society Steele Prize and was awarded an honorary doctorate from Harvard University. She has also been a MacArthur Fellow. - Curtis T. McMullen
Curtis T. McMullen is Cabot Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University. He graduated valedictorian from Williams College in 1980, earned his Ph.D. at Harvard, and held positions at Princeton and Berkeley before coming to Harvard in 1997. His research centers on complex dynamics and hyperbolic geometry, and has included work in knot theory, number theory and algebraic geometry. - Joe Harris
Joseph Daniel Harris (born 1951), known nearly universally as Joe Harris, is a mathematician at Harvard University working in the field of algebraic geometry. He attended college at and received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1978 under Phillip Griffiths. During the 1980s he was on the faculty of Brown University, moving to Harvard around 1988 [check this?]. He served as chair of the department at Harvard from 2002-2005. - Chauncey Wright
Chauncey Wright (September 10, 1830 - September 12, 1875), American philosopher and mathematician, was born at Northampton, Massachusetts. In 1852 he graduated at Harvard, and became computer to the "American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac". He made his name by contributions on mathematical and physical subjects in the "Mathematical Monthly". He soon, however, turned his attention to metaphysics and psychology, … - Robin Hartshorne
Robin Cope Hartshorne (born 1938) is an American mathematician. Hartshorne is an algebraic geometer who studied with Zariski, Mumford, J.-P. Serre and Grothendieck. He was a Putnam Fellow in Fall, 1958. He received his doctorate from Princeton University in 1963 and then became a Junior Fellow at Harvard University, where he taught for several years. In the 1970s he was appointed to the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently retired. - Shlomo Sternberg
Shlomo Zvi Sternberg is a leading mathematician, known for his work in geometry, particularly symplectic geometry and the differential geometry of G-structures. Sternberg earned his Ph.D. in 1957 from Johns Hopkins University, where he wrote a dissertation on transformations under Aurel Wintner. He was a Guggenheim Fellow at Harvard University in 1974. One of his best known Ph.D. students is Victor Guillemin (1962), who has also become a leader in symplectic geometry.
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