List of American mathematicians
This is a list of American mathematicians.
- James Waddell Alexander II (1888-1971)
- Stephanie B. Alexander, elected in 2014 as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to geometry, for high-quality exposition, and for exceptional teaching of mathematics"
- Linda J. S. Allen
- Ann S. Almgren, applied mathematician who works as a senior scientist and group leader of the Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Frederick Almgren (1933-1997)
- Beverly Anderson (b. 1943)
- Natascha Artin Brunswick (1909-2003)
- Tamara Awerbuch-Friedlander
- Wealthy Babcock (1895-1990)
- Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806)
- Augustin Banyaga (b. 1947 in Rwanda)
- Ruth Aaronson Bari (1917-2005)
- Janet Barnett
- Jon Barwise (1942-2000)
- Richard Bellman (1920-1984)
- Leonid Berlyand (b. 1957)
- George David Birkhoff (1884-1944)
- David Blackwell (1919-2010)
- Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838)
- Felix Browder (1927-2016)
- William Browder (b. 1934), pioneered the surgery theory method for classifying high-dimensional manifolds.
- Marjorie Lee Browne (1914-1979), taught at North Carolina Central University
- Robert Daniel Carmichael (1879-1967)
- Alonzo Church (1903-1995)
- William Schieffelin Claytor (1908-1967), third African-American to earn a Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania[1][2]
- Paul Cohen (1934-2007)
- Elbert Frank Cox (1895-1969), first African-American to earn a Ph.D. in Mathematics, Cornell University
- Laura Demarco (?), researcher in dynamical systems and complex analysis
- Joseph J. Dennis (1905–1977), Clark College
- Joseph L. Doob (1910-2004)
- Jesse Douglas (1897-1965)
- Samuel Eilenberg (1913-1998)
- Noam Elkies (b. 1966), mathematical prodigy who works in computational number theory
- Jerald Ericksen (b. 1924)
- Christina Eubanks-Turner, American mathematics educator, graph theorist, and commutative algebraist
- Etta Zuber Falconer (1933-2002)
- Lisa Fauci, applied mathematician who applies computational fluid dynamics to biological processes
- Charles Fefferman (b. 1949)
- Henry Burchard Fine (1858-1928)
- Erica Flapan (b. 1956), researcher in low-dimensional topology and knot theory
- Alfred Leon Foster (1904-1994)
- Ralph Fox (1913-1973)
- Michael Freedman (b. 1951)
- Murray Gerstenhaber (b. 1927)
- Andrew M. Gleason (1921-2008), WWII codebreaker, major contributor in solving Hilbert's 5th Problem ("restricted" version).
- Ralph E. Gomory (b. 1929)
- Daniel Gorenstein (1923-1992)
- Ronald Graham (1935–2020)
- Evelyn Boyd Granville (b. 1924)
- Phillip Griffiths (b. 1938), major contributor to complex manifold approach to algebraic geometry
- Frank Harary (1921-2005)
- Joe Harris (mathematician) (b. 1951), prolific researcher and expositor of algebraic geometry
- Euphemia Haynes (1890-1980), first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics
- Gloria Conyers Hewitt (born 1935)
- George William Hill (1838-1914)
- Einar Hille (1894-1980)
- Alston Scott Householder (1904-1993)
- Nathan Jacobson (1910-1999)
- Clifford Victor Johnson, awarded B.S. from Imperial College in 1989
- Katherine Johnson (b. 1918)
- Theodore Kaczynski (b. 1942)
- Howard Jerome Keisler (b. 1936)
- Victor Klee (1925-2007)
- Holly Krieger
- William Kronholm
- Harold W. Kuhn (1925-2014)
- Kenneth Kunen (b. 1943)
- Solomon Lefschetz (1884-1972)
- Suzanne Lenhart, researcher in partial differential equations; president of the Association for Women in Mathematics, 2001-2003
- James Lepowsky (b. 1944)
- Marie Litzinger, (1899-1952), number theorist
- Jacob Lurie, (b. 1977), developed derived algebraic geometry
- Saunders Mac Lane (1909-2005)
- W. T. Martin (1911-2004)
- William S. Massey (1920-2017)
- John N. Mather (1942-2017)
- Barry Mazur (b. 1937)
- Curtis T. McMullen (b. 1958)
- Elliott Mendelson (b. 1931)
- Winifred Edgerton Merrill (1862-1951)
- Kelly Miller (1863-1939)
- Kenneth Millett (b. 1941)
- John Milnor (b. 1931)
- Susan Montgomery (b. 1943)
- E. H. Moore (1862-1932)
- Marston Morse (1892-1977)
- George Mostow (1923-2017)
- Frederick Mosteller (1916-2006)
- David Mumford (b. 1937)
- John Forbes Nash Jr. (June 13, 1928-May 23, 2015)
- Walter Noll (b. 1925)
- Michael O'Nan (1943-2017)
- Richard Palais (b. 1931)
- Benjamin Peirce (1809-1880)
- Javier Perez-Capdevila (b. 1963 in Cuba)
- Vera Pless (1931-2020), mathematician specialized in combinatorics and coding theory
- Daniel Quillen (1940-2011)
- Charles Reason (1818-1893)
- Joseph Ritt (1893–1951)
- Fred S. Roberts (b. 1943)
- Herbert Robbins (1915-2001)
- Julia Robinson (1919-1985), contributor to Hilbert's tenth problem
- J. Barkley Rosser (1907-1989)
- Gerald Sacks (b. 1933)
- Thomas Jerome Schaefer (Ph.D. 1978)
- Dana Scott (b. 1932)
- James Serrin (1926-2012)
- Claude Shannon (1916-2001)
- Isadore Singer (b. 1924)
- Charles Coffin Sims (1938-2017)
- George Seligman (b. 1927)
- Tyler Setzke (b. 2001)
- Stephen Smale (b. 1930)
- Raymond Smullyan (1919-2017)
- Edwin Spanier (1921-1996)
- Norman Steenrod (1910-1971)
- Clarence F. Stephens (b. 1917)
- Lee Stiff (b. 1941) [3]
- Marshall Harvey Stone (1903-1989)
- Theodore Strong (1790-1869)
- Walter R. Talbot (1909-1979), fourth African-American to earn a Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh
- Terence Tao (b. 1975)
- John Tate (1925–2019)
- Jean Taylor (b. 1944)
- John G. Thompson (b. 1932)
- Sister Mary Domitilla Thuener
- William Thurston (1936-2012)
- Jason Tom (b. 1982), mathematics supplemental instructor and mathematics coach, University of Hawaiʻi at Kapiʻolani[4][5][6]
- Clifford Truesdell (1919-2000)
- John Tukey (1915-2000)
- John Urschel (b. 1991)
- Dorothy Vaughan (1910-2008)
- Oswald Veblen (1880-1960)
- Mary Shore Walker (1882-1952)
- Herbert Wilf (1931-2012)
- J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr. (1923-2011)
- Hassler Whitney (1907-1989)
- Dudley Weldon Woodard (1881-1965), second African-American to earn a Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania
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- Listed by the NCSU College of Education, in a citation for their Distinguished Alumni Award Archived 2011-08-13 at the Wayback Machine, as being the recipient of the 1993 NCSU Provost's African-American Professional Development Award.
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