List of Jewish American mathematicians
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This is a list of famous Jewish American Mathematicians. For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans. See also Category:Jewish mathematicians.
- Kenneth Appel, four-color problem
- Richard Bellman, dynamic programming (Jewish mother, half Jewish father)
- Salomon Bochner, harmonic analysis
- Raoul Bott, geometry (half Jewish)
- Richard Brauer, modular representation theory
- Eugenio Calabi, differential geometry
- Paul Cohen, set theorist, Fields Medal (1966)
- Richard Courant, algebraic topology
- George Dantzig, simplex algorithm
- Martin Davis, mathematician
- Persi Diaconis, statistician (half Jewish)
- Jesse Douglas, mathematician, Fields Medal (1936)
- Samuel Eilenberg, category theorist
- Noam Elkies, mathematician
- Paul Erdos, number theorist
- Charles Fefferman, mathematician, Fields Medal (1978)
- Mitchell Feigenbaum, chaos theorist
- William Feller, probability theory
- Michael Freedman, mathematician, Fields Medal (1986) (Jewish father)
- Dorian Goldfeld, number theorist, Cole Prize
- Michael Golomb, theory of approximation
- Solomon Golomb, polyominoes
- Paul Halmos, mathematician
- E. Morton Jellinek, was a biostatistician
- Irving Kaplansky, mathematician
- Mark Kac, mathematician
- Edward Kasner, mathematician
- Nick Katz, algebraic geometry
- Martin Kruskal, mathematician
- Peter Lax, mathematician, Abel Prize (2005)
- Solomon Lefschetz, algebraic topology
- Norman Levinson, mathematician
- George Lusztig, representation theory
- Barry Mazur, mathematician
- Louis Mordell, number theorist
- John von Neumann, mathematician [1]
- George Pólya, mathematician (Jewish parents)
- Emil Post, logician
- Herbert Robbins, statistician
- Abraham Robinson, nonstandard analysis
- Arthur Rubin, mathematician
- Isadore Singer, mathematician, Abel Prize (2004)
- Richard P. Stanley, mathematician
- Elias Stein, mathematician
- Stanislaw Ulam, mathematician
- André Weil, mathematician
- Norbert Wiener, mathematician, Bôcher Prize, National Medal of Science
- Edward Witten, M-theory, Fields Medal (1990)
- Oscar Zariski, algebraic geometry
[edit] External links
- Comprehensive list - from JINFO.ORG.
