List of Jewish American mathematicians

"This is a list of famous Jewish American Mathematicians. For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans."

* Abraham Adrian Albert ["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"]
* Kenneth Appel, four-color problem [http://www.jinfo.org/Computer_Scientists.html]
* Richard Bellman, dynamic programming *
* Lipman Bers, non-linear elliptic equations [http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Bers.html]
* 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) [http://www.jinfo.org/Fields_Mathematics.html]
* Samuel Eilenberg, category theorist *
* Noam Elkies, mathematician *
* Paul Erdos, number theorist *
* Charles Fefferman, mathematician, Fields Medal (1978) *
* Mitchell Feigenbaum, chaos theorist [http://www.jinfo.org/Wolf_Physics.html]
* William Feller, probability theory ["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)..."]
* Michael Freedman, mathematician, Fields Medal (1986) (Jewish father) *
* Dorian Goldfeld, number theorist, Cole Prize *
* Michael Golomb, theory of approximation [http://www.purdue.edu/UNS/html4ever/010216.Nat.Ahlbrandt.book.html]
* Solomon Golomb, polyominoes [http://www.jinfo.org/Computer_Scientists.html]
* Paul Halmos, mathematician *
* E. Morton Jellinek, biostatistician [http://www.roizen.com/ron/rr11.htm]
* Irving Kaplansky, mathematician *
* Mark Kac, mathematician *
* Edward Kasner, mathematician [ [http://beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/stand_columbia/TimelineCUJew.html 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.]
* Nick Katz, algebraic geometry *
* Martin Kruskal, mathematician *
* Cornelius Lanczos, mathematician and mathematical physicist [http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Lanczos.html]
* Peter Lax, mathematician, Abel Prize (2005) *
* Solomon Lefschetz, algebraic topology *
* Emma Lehmer, mathematician [http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2007/05/11_emmalehmer.shtml]
* Norman Levinson, mathematician *
* George Lusztig, representation theory *
* Barry Mazur, mathematician *
* Louis Mordell, number theorist *
* John von Neumann, mathematician [http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Von_Neumann.html]
* 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 *

Footnotes

ee also

*List of Jewish mathematicians

External links

* [http://www.jinfo.org/Mathematics_Comp.html Comprehensive list] - from JINFO.ORG; names that can be sourced there are starred *