Andrey Kolmogorov

Andrey Kolmogorov

male, deceased (1987)
intuitionistic logic, classical mechanics, computational complexity, Hero of Socialist Labor, turbulence, Alumni and faculty of Moscow State University…Stalin Prize winner, WolfPrizerecipient
Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (April 25, 1903 - October 20, 1987) was a Soviet mathematician who made major advances in different academic fields...
Stephen Smale

Stephen Smale

male, 79 years old (Flint, Michigan, United States)
University of Chicago, nuclear physics, National Medal of Science recipient, Erdős number 4, WolfPrizerecipient, Poincaré conjecture
Stephen Smale (born July 15, 1930) is an American mathematician from Flint, Michigan, and winner of the Fields Medal in 1966. He entered the...
Jean Leray

Jean Leray

male, deceased (1998)
mathematician, prisoner of war, Alumni of the École Normale Supérieure, Mathematical analyst, French, University of Paris…WolfPrizerecipient, Wolf Prize in Mathematics, Feltrinelli Prize, Malaxa Prize
Jean Leray was a French mathematician, who worked on both partial differential equations and algebraic topology. He was born in Nantes. He studied...
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…Schock Prize, Wolf Prize in Mathematics, National Medal of Science recipient, Steele Prize, WolfPrizerecipient
Elias Menachem Stein (born January 13, 1931) is the Albert Baldwin Dod Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University. Born in Belgium, Stein...
Oscar Zariski

Oscar Zariski

male, deceased (1986)
Jewish, mathematician, Jewish American, belarusian, algebraic geometry, Harvard University faculty…National Medal of Science recipient, WolfPrizerecipient
Oscar Zariski (born Ascher Zaritsky 24 April 1899 in Kobrin, Poland (today Belarus), died 4 July 1986 (Brookline, Massachusetts) was a...
Shiing-Shen Chern

Shiing-Shen Chern

male, deceased (2004)
scientist, Tsinghua University alumni, Erdős number 2, Princeton University faculty, Chinese American, mathematician…National Medal of Science recipient, WolfPrizerecipient
Shiing-Shen Chern (October 26 1911 - December 3 2004) was a Chinese American mathematician, one of the leading differential geometers of the...
Robert Langlands

Robert Langlands

male, 73 years old
New Westminster, Robert Phelan Langlands, Langlands program, WolfPrizerecipient, arithmetic group, algebraic number theory
Robert Phelan Langlands (born October 6, 1936 in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada) is one of the most significant mathematicians of the...
Henri Cartan

Henri Cartan

male, 105 years old
French Academy of Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, Centenarian, Erdős number 3, United States National Academy of Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences…WolfPrizerecipient
Henri Cartan is a son of Élie Cartan, and is, as his father was, a distinguished and influential French mathematician. Cartan studied at the L...
John Milnor

John Milnor

male, 78 years old
Putnam Fellow, mathematician, John Willard Milnor, differential topology, Fields Medal, WolfPrizerecipient…National Medal of Science recipient
John Willard Milnor (b. February 20, 1931 in Orange, New Jersey) is an American mathematician known for his work in differential topology,...
Grigory Margulis

Grigory Margulis

male, 63 years old
Jewish, WolfPrizerecipient, Fields Medal, arithmetic group, Lie group, Ergodic theory…Wolf Prize in Mathematics, Wolf Prize
Gregori Aleksandrovich Margulis (first name often given as Gregory, Grigori or Grigory) (born February 24 1946) is a mathematician known for his...