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.

Abraham Adrian Albert ^[1]
Kenneth Appel, four-color problem [1]
Richard Bellman, dynamic programming *
Lipman Bers, non-linear elliptic equations [2]
Salomon Bochner, harmonic analysis *
Raoul Bott, geometry (Jewish mother) *
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 (Jewish mother) *
Jesse Douglas, mathematician, Fields Medal (1936) [3]
Samuel Eilenberg, category theorist *
Noam Elkies, mathematician *
Paul Erdos, number theorist *
Charles Fefferman, mathematician, Fields Medal (1978) *
Mitchell Feigenbaum, chaos theorist [4]
William Feller, probability theory ^[2]
Michael Freedman, mathematician, Fields Medal (1986) (Jewish father) *
Dorian Goldfeld, number theorist, Cole Prize *
Michael Golomb, theory of approximation [5]
Solomon Golomb, polyominoes [6]
Paul Halmos, mathematician *
E. Morton Jellinek, biostatistician [7]
Irving Kaplansky, mathematician *
Mark Kac, mathematician *
Edward Kasner, mathematician ^[3]
Nick Katz, algebraic geometry *
Martin Kruskal, mathematician *
Cornelius Lanczos, mathematician and mathematical physicist [8]
Peter Lax, mathematician, Abel Prize (2005) *
Solomon Lefschetz, algebraic topology *
Emma Lehmer, mathematician [9]
Norman Levinson, mathematician *
George Lusztig, representation theory *
Barry Mazur, mathematician *
Louis Mordell, number theorist *
John von Neumann, mathematician [10]
George Pólya, mathematician *
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] Footnotes

^ "A. A. Albert", D. Zelinsky, The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 80, No. 6 (Jun. - Jul., 1973), pp. 661-665: "He was the son of a Jewish family that came to America from England"
^ "Mathematicians under the Nazis" by Prof Sanford Segal of the University of Rochester (Princeton University Press, 2003, p460): "...Tornier had collaborated with Willi Feller (who was Jewish)..."
^ Columbia University: "Edward Kasner (CCNY 1897; CU MA, 1897; PhD 1900) appointed Tutor on Mathematics Department; first Jew appointed to faculty position in sciences. The 4th of Low’s 4 Jewish appointments." Accessed 5 may 2007.