Claudia Zaslavsky

Claudia Zaslavsky

female, deceased (2006)
mathematician, Anthropology writer, Anthropology educator, MathematicsEducator, Ethnologist, Africa Count…mathematics, Educator
Claudia Zaslavsky was an American educator and ethnomathematician. She advanced the study of the links between mathematics and world cultures,...
Vernor Vinge

Vernor Vinge

male, 65 years old
Libertarian science fiction writer, San Diego State University faculty, Worldcon Guest of Honor, MathematicsEducator, Worldcon Guests of Honor, Hugo Award…mathematics
Vernor Steffen Vinge (born October 2, 1944 in Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA) is a retired San Diego State University Professor of Mathematics, computer...

Norman L. Webb

male
University of Wisconsin-Madison, scientist, MathematicsEducator
Norman L. Webb Norman L. Webb is a senior scientist at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, School of Education, University of...
Clarence F. Stephens

Clarence F. Stephens

male, 92 years old
University of Michigan, SUNY Potsdam, Johnson C. Smith University, Doctor of Philosophy, Retirement, MathematicsEducator…mathematics, Mathematics Association of America
Clarence F. Stephens was the ninth African American to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics. One of six children, he was orphaned at the age of eight and...
Felix Otto

Felix Otto

male, 43 years old
University of Bonn faculty, University of Bonn alumni, University of California, Santa Barbara faculty, MathematicsEducator, Carnegie Mellon University alumni, New York University alumni…mathematics
Felix Otto (born May 19, 1966 in Munich) is a German mathematician. He studied mathematics at the University of Bonn, finishing his Ph.D. thesis in...
Thomas Fincke

Thomas Fincke

male, deceased (1656)
Mathematics writer, University of Copenhagen faculty, MathematicsEducator, science teacher, trigonometric function, mathematics
Thomas Fincke (January 6, 1561-April 24, 1656) was a Danish mathematician and physicist, and a professor at the University of Copenhagen for more...

Kathleen Ollerenshaw

female, 97 years old
MathematicsEducator, from Withington, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, University of Manchester, Conservative Party politician, Oxford University…mathematics, B.A. degree in Mathematics
Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw D.Phil., DBE (b. October 1 1912, Withington, Manchester) is a mathematician and a politician. Born Kathleen Timpson, as a...
Max Mason

Max Mason

male, deceased (1961)
MathematicsEducator, rockefeller foundation, Mathematical analyst, University of Chicago faculty, Yale University faculty, University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty
Charles Max Mason was an American mathematician. Mason president of the University of Chicago (1925–1929) and president of the Rockefeller Fo...

George Marsaglia

male
Washington State University, ziggurat algorithm, multiply-with-carry, mathematician, computer scientist, The Marsaglia effect…MathematicsEducator
George Marsaglia is a mathematician and computer scientist. He is perhaps best known for establishing the lattice structure of congruential random...

Scott W. Williams

male, 66 years old
SUNY, State University of New York faculty, MathematicsEducator, University of Buffalo, Lehigh University alumni, American
Scott Williams (born April 22 1943, Staten Island, New York) is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Buffalo, SUNY.