List of Jewish American mathematicians
This is a list of notable Jewish American mathematicians. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.
- Abraham Adrian Albert (1905-1972), abstract algebra[1]
- Kenneth Appel (1932-2013), four-color problem [2]
- Lipman Bers (1914-1993), non-linear elliptic equations[3]
- Paul Cohen (1934-2007), set theorist; Fields Medal (1966)[4]
- Jesse Douglas (1897-1965), mathematician; Fields Medal (1936), Bôcher Memorial Prize (1943)[5]
- Samuel Eilenberg (1913-1988), category theory; Wolf Prize (1986), Steele Prize (1987)[6]
- Yakov Eliashberg (born 1946), symplectic topology and partial differential equations[7]
- Charles Fefferman (born 1949), mathematician; Fields Medal (1978), Bôcher Prize (2008)[7][8][9]
- William Feller (1906-1970), probability theory [10]
- Michael Freedman (born 1951), mathematician; Fields Medal (1986)[7]
- Hillel Furstenberg (born 1935), mathematician; Wolf Prize (2006/07), Abel Prize (2020)[11][12]
- Michael Golomb (1909-2008), theory of approximation [13]
- E. Morton Jellinek (1890-1963), biostatistician [14]
- Edward Kasner (1878-1955), mathematician [15]
- Sergiu Klainerman (born 1950), hyperbolic differential equations and general relativity, MacArthur Fellow (1991), Guggenheim Fellow (1997), Bôcher Memorial Prize(1999) [7]
- Cornelius Lanczos (1893-1974), mathematician and mathematical physicist [16]
- Peter Lax (born 1926), mathematician; Wolf Prize (1987), Steele Prize (1993), Abel Prize (2005)[17]
- Emma Lehmer (1906-2007), mathematician [18]
- Grigory Margulis (born 1946), mathematician; Fields Medal (1978), Wolf Prize (2005), Abel Prize (2020)[12]
- John von Neumann (1903-1957), mathematician [19]
- Ken Ribet (born 1948), algebraic number theory and algebraic geometry[7]
- Peter Sarnak (born 1953), analytic number theory; Pólya Prize (1998), Cole Prize (2005), Wolf Prize (2014)[7]
- Yakov Sinai (born 1935), dynamical systems; Wolf Prize (1997), Steele Prize (2013), Abel Prize (2014)[citation needed]
- Isadore Singer (1924-2021), mathematician; Bôcher Prize (1969), Steele Prize (2000), Abel Prize (2004)[7]
- Elias Stein (1931-2018), harmonic analysis; Wolf Prize (1999), Steele Prize (2002)[20]
- Edward Witten (born 1951), theoretical physics; Fields Medal (1990) [21]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "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"
- ^ "Jewish Computer & Information Scientists".
- ^ "Lipman Bers - Biography".
- ^ O'Connor & Robertson, Paul Joseph Cohen; "Paul Cohen's parents, Abraham and Minnie Cohen, were Jewish immigrants to the United States from their native land of Poland."
- ^ Peter Lax, Mathematician: An Illustrated Memoir, by Reuben Hersh (American Mathematical Soc. 2014), page 102
- ^ O'Connor & Robertson, Samuel Eilenberg.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g "Jewish Mathematicians". Jinfo.org. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
- ^ The Jewish lists: physicists and generals, actors and writers, and hundreds of other lists of accomplished Jews, Martin Harry Greenberg, (Schocken, 1979), page 110
- ^ American Jewish Year Book 2017: The Annual Record of the North American Jewish Communities, Arnold Dashefsky, Ira M. Sheskin, (Springer, 2018), page 796
- ^ "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)..."
- ^ O'Connor & Robertson, Hillel Furstenberg.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Castelvecchi, Davide (18 March 2020). "Mathematics pioneers who found order in chaos win Abel prize". Nature. doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00799-7.
- ^ [1]
- ^ "Ranes Report".
- ^ Columbia University Archived 2012-12-21 at the Wayback Machine: "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.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-02-10. Retrieved 2013-05-09.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ Peter Lax, Britannica.com.
- ^ "05.11.2007 - Mathematician Emma Lehmer dies at 100".
- ^ "John von Neumann - Biography".
- ^ O'Connor & Robertson, Elias Menachem Stein.
- ^ Witten biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
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