List of Jewish mathematicians

List of Jewish mathematicians is a list that includes mathematicians who are or were verifiably Jewish or of Jewish descent.

A-G

* Abraham Manie Adelstein [article in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography] , statistician
* Hertha Ayrton [article in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography] , mathematician and engineer
* Laurence Baxter, statistician [Death notices in Jewish Chronicle, 15/11/1996 p 31; confirms Sidney Hart was his uncle]
* Felix Bernstein, set theory ^{[http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Printonly/Doetsch.html]}
* Abram Besicovitch [http://www.jinfo.org/Mathematics_Comp.html] , Russian-born British mathematician (Karaite)
* Maurice Block (1816 - 1901) statistician [Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th ed: "He was born in Berlin of Jewish parents. He studied at Bonn and Giessen, but settled in Paris, becoming naturalized there"]
* Richard Brauer, modular representation theory ^{[http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Brauer.html]}
* Selig Brodetsky [ [http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history//Biographies/Brodetsky.html] : "These include the papers of Anglo-Jewish leaders, such as Selig Brodetsky"] , mathematician and President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews
* Jacob Bronowski [http://www.sdjewishjournal.com/stories/article5.html] , mathematician & broadcaster
* Georg Cantor, set theorist ["Mathematics and physics increasingly attracted Jews who were very creative in these fields, like George Cantor, Albert Einstein, Hermann Minkowski, Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Teller, and Lev Landau." Ben-Sasson, Haim, and Fred Skolnik. "History: Modern Times – from the 1880s to the Early 21st Century." Encyclopaedia Judaica. Eds. Michael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik. Vol. 9. 2nd ed. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007. 241-285.]
* Moritz Cantor, historian of mathematics [Jewish Encyclopedia]
* Paul Cohn, algebraist [ [http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Obits2/Cohn_Times.html Obituary in "The Times"] "he was born in Hamburg in 1924 to Jewish parents" Accessed 9 July 2008.]
* Richard Courant, mathematical analysis & applied mathematics ^{[http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Courant.html]}
* H.E. Daniels [article in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography] , statistician
* Philip Dawid [http://jewish-books.net/findBy_AuthName/find_A.Philip_Dawid.html] , statistician
* Max Dehn, topology ^{[http://www.ams.org/notices/200209/fea-dawson.pdf]}
* Paul Epstein, number theory ^{[http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Epstein.html]}
* Arthur Erdelyi [Jewish: [http://www.jinfo.org/Mathematics_Comp.html] ; British: Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "became naturalised British citizen, 1947"] , mathematician
* Paul Erdős [http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Erdos.html]
* John Fox, statistician
* Adolf Fraenkel, set theory ^{[http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Fraenkel.html]}
* Hans Freudenthal, algebraic topology ^{[http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Freudenthal.html]}
* Albrecht Frohlich [http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/media/bio_mems/Frohlich%20press.pdf]
* David Glass [Obituary, Jewish Chronicle, Oct. 6 1978, p.32] , demographer
* Sydney Goldstein [http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Goldstein.html] , expert on fluid mechanics
* Benjamin Gompertz [http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Gompertz.html] , mathematician
* Eugene Grebenik [http://www.ehrcweb.org/jobs/Press-Eugene-Grebenik-17668.htm] , demographer
*Alexander Grothendieck (1928 - ) German-born mathematician, Fields Medal (1966) ^{[http://www.jinfo.org/Mathematics_Comp.html]}

H-R

* Steven Haberman [http://www.jafi.org.il/education/100/concepts/demography/demjpop.html] , professor of actuarial science
*Jacques Hadamard (1865 - 1963) mathematician ^{[http://www.jinfo.org/Mathematics_Comp.html]}
* John Hajnal, demographer (JYB 2005 p215)
* Felix Hausdorff, topology ^{[http://www-groups.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Hausdorff.html]}
* Hans Heilbronn (JYB 1977, p207)
* Heinz Hopf, topology (Jewish father) ^{[http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Hopf.html]}
* Adolf Hurwitz, mathematician ^{[http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hurwitz.html]}
* Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi, analysis ^{[http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Jacobi.html]}
* Marie Jahoda [http://www3.niu.edu/acad/psych/Millis/History/2003/womeninpsych_6.htm] , psychologist
* Thomas Körner, mathematician [Two Jewish parents: Stephan Körner (JYB 2005 p215) and Edith Körner]
* Leopold Kronecker, number theory ^{[http://www.gap-system.org/~history/Biographies/Kronecker.html]}
* Edmund Landau, number theory ^{[http://www.ma.huji.ac.il/~landau/landau.html]}
* Ruth Lawrence [http://www.jewishdeaf.org.uk/latestnews/tvstarlett.htm] , mathematician & child prodigy
* Rudolf Lipschitz, mathematician ^{[http://www.jinfo.org/Mathematics_Comp.html]}
* Kurt Mahler, mathematician ^{[http://www.gap-system.org/~history/Biographies/Mahler.html]} ; (JYB 2005 p214)
* Hermann Minkowski, geometrical theory of numbers [Contemporary Authors V 162 By Rooney, Scot Peacock, Pg 169]
* Sir Claus Moser [http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/entertainment/previewsandreviews/content_objectid=13939784_method=full_siteid=50061_page=5_headline=-A-brush-withour-darkest-hour-name_page.html] , statistician
* Louis Mordell [http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Mordell.html] , number theorist
* Leonard Nelson, mathematician, philosopher ^{[http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0007-1315(195409)5%3A3%3C290%3ALNZG%3E2.0.CO%3B2-7]}
* Bernhard Neumann, mathematician ^{[http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Neumann_Bernhard.html]} ; (JYB 2005 p214)
* Emmy Noether, algebra & theoretical physics ^{[http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~cwp/Phase2/Noether,[e-mail]]}
* Alfred Pringsheim, analysis, theory of functions ^{[http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Pringsheim.html]}
* Richard Rado [http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Rado_Richard.html] , mathematician
* Abraham Robinson, nonstandard analysis ^{[http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Robinson.html]}
*Olinde Rodrigues (1795 - 1851) mathematician & social reformer ^{[http://www.maa.org/reviews/SocialUtopias.html]}
* Klaus Roth, diophantine approximation, Fields Medal (1958) ^{[http://phys4.harvard.edu/~wilson/publications/Human%20rights%20letters.html] [http://www.jinfo.org/Fields_Mathematics.html]}

S-Z

* Arthur Moritz Schönflies, mathematician ^{[http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Schonflies.html]}
* Issai Schur, mathematician ^{[http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Schur.html]}
*Laurent Schwartz (1915 - 2002) mathematician, Fields Medal (1950) ^{[http://www.jinfo.org/Mathematics_Comp.html]}
* Bernard Silverman, statistician [http://www.jfjfp.org/signatories.htm#S]
* David Spiegelhalter, statistician (JYB 2007 p.198)
* James Joseph Sylvester [http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Sylvester.html] , mathematician
* Otto Toeplitz, linear algebra & functional analysis ^{[http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Toeplitz.html]}
*André Weil (1906 - 1998) mathematician, Wolf Prize (1979) ^{[http://www.jinfo.org/Kyoto.html]}

References

* JYB = Jewish Year Book

Footnotes

External links

* [http://www.jinfo.org Jinfo]

ee also

*Lists of Jews
*List of Jewish American mathematicians