John von Neumann

John von Neumann

male, deceased (1957)
John von Neumann (born Margittai Neumann János Lajos on December 28, 1903 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary; died February 8, 1957 in Washington D.C., U...
Harry Dym

Harry Dym

male
Professor Harry Dym is a mathematician at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. He is notable for discovering the Dym equation. Dym's research...
Paul Halmos

Paul Halmos

male, deceased (2006)
Paul Richard Halmos (March 3 1916 - October 2 2006) was a Hungarian-born American mathematician who wrote on probability theory, statistics,...

Kenneth Davidson

male
Kenneth R. Davidson is Professor in Pure Mathematics at the University of Waterloo. He did his undergraduate work at Waterloo and received his...
Louis de Branges de Bourcia

Louis de Branges de Bourcia

male, 77 years old
Louis de Branges de Bourcia (born August 21, 1932 in Paris, France) is a French-American mathematician. He is the Edward C. Elliott Distinguished...
Lev Pontryagin

Lev Pontryagin

male, deceased (1988)
Lev Semenovich Pontryagin was a Soviet Russian mathematician. He was born in Moscow and lost his eyesight in a primus stove explosion when he was...

Mark Grigoryevich Krein

male, deceased (1989)
Mark Grigorievich Krein was a Soviet Jewish mathematician, one of the major figures of the Soviet school of functional analysis. He is known for...
Erik Ivar Fredholm

Erik Ivar Fredholm

male, deceased (1927)
Erik Ivar Fredholm (April 7, 1866 - August 17, 1927) was a Swedish mathematician who established the modern theory of integral equations. His 1903...

Naum Ilyich Akhiezer

male
Naum Ilyich Akhiezer was a Soviet mathematician of Jewish origin, known for his works in constructive function theory, approximation theory, the...

David Milman

male, deceased (1982)
David Pinhusovich Milman was a Ukrainian mathematician specializing in functional analysis. He was one of the major figures of the Soviet school of...