David Kazhdan

David Kazhdan

male
Orthodox Jew, Harvard University, Israeli, judaism, mathematician, MacArthur Fellow…Kazhdan-Lusztig conjecture
David Kazhdan is an Israeli mathematician known for work in representation theory. The son of Alexander Kazhdan, he was born in 1946 in Moscow,...
Pierre Deligne

Pierre Deligne

male, 65 years old
Free University of Brussels alumni, group of Lie type, finite groups of Lie type, moduli space, string theory, Fields Medalist…Hodge conjecture
Pierre Deligne is a Belgian mathematician. He is known for fundamental work on the Weil conjectures, leading finally to a complete proof in 1973....
Goro Shimura

Goro Shimura

male, 79 years old
Kenneth Ribet, Cole Prize, Steele Prize, Collected Works, Erdős number 2, American Mathematical Society…Taniyama-Shimura conjecture
Goro Shimura. In that sense his work is now mainstream-for-Princeton; but this assimilation (through David Mumford, Pierre Deligne and others)...
Paul Seymour

Paul Seymour

male, 59 years old
matroid, regular matroid, totally unimodular matrix, graph minors and structure, totally unimodular matrices, Pólya Prize…Hadwiger conjecture
Paul Seymour (born July 26, 1950) is a mathematician working in discrete mathematics, including combinatorics, graph theory, and optimization, at...
Doron Zeilberger

Doron Zeilberger

male, 59 years old
hypergeometric identities, scientist, Erdős number 2, mathematician, Rutgers University, Rutgers University faculty…alternating sign matrix conjecture
Doron Zeilberger is an Israeli mathematician, known for his work in combinatorics. He is a Board of Governors Professor at Rutgers University. He...
Gaisi Takeuti

Gaisi Takeuti

male, 83 years old
Princeton University, Logician, mathematician, princeton, Japanese, University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign…Takeuti's conjecture, Takeuti conjecture
Gaisi Takeuti is a Japanese mathematician, known for his work in proof theory. After graduating from Tokyo University, he went to Princeton to...
Chandrashekhar Khare

Chandrashekhar Khare

male
University of Utah, Galois representations, number theory, mathematics, Hindu, Indian American…Serre conjecture
Chandrashekhar Khare is a professor of mathematics at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. In 2005, he made a major advance in the field of...
Paul Cohen

Paul Cohen

male, deceased (2007)
Littlewood's conjecture, conjecture of Littlewood, National Medal of Science, University of London, Set theorist, Jewish person
Paul Joseph Cohen (April 2, 1934 - March 23, 2007) was an American mathematician. He was born in Long Branch, New Jersey into a Jewish family and...
Richard Borcherds

Richard Borcherds

male, 50 years old
William Timothy Gowers, Fields Medal, King Edward's School, Birmingham, monstrous moonshine, finite group, classification of finite simple groups…Conway-Norton conjecture
Richard Ewen Borcherds (born November 29, 1959) is a British mathematician specializing in lattices, number theory, group theory, and...
Michio Suzuki

Michio Suzuki

male, deceased (1999)
Conway group, Japanese language, dickson, Group theorist, American, Japanese…Burnside conjecture
Michio Suzuki was a Japanese mathematician who studied group theory. He was a Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1953...