- List of people by Erdős number
Paul Erdős was one of the most prolific writers of mathematical papers. He collaborated a great deal, having 511 joint authors, a number of whom also have many collaborators. TheErdős number measures the "collaborative distance" between an author and Erdős. Thus, his direct co-authors have Erdős number 1, theirs have number 2, and so forth. Erdős himself has Erdős number 0.This list includes researchers with Erdős numbers from 0 to 3 who are notable in their own right. For more complete listings of Erdős numbers, see the databases maintained by the [http://www.oakland.edu/enp/ Erdos Number Project] or the [http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/collaborationDistance.html collaboration distance calculator] maintained by the
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Paul Erdős #1
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Miklós Ajtai
*Leonidas Alaoglu
*Yousef Alavi
*Noga Alon
*Nesmith Ankeny
*Boris Aronov
*David Avis ;B
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László Babai
*Leon Bankoff
*James Earl Baumgartner
*Istvan Beck
*Andreas Blass
*Ralph P. Boas, Jr
*Béla Bollobás
*John Brillhart
*Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn ;C
* Peter Cameron
*Earl Rodney Canfield
*Sarvadaman Chowla
*Charles Kam-tai Chui
*Fan Chung
*Václav Chvátal
*John Horton Conway
*Arthur Herbert Copeland ;D
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Harold Davenport
*Jean-Marc Deshouillers
*Persi Diaconis
*Gabriel Andrew Dirac
*Jacques Dixmier
*Yael Naim Dowker
*Underwood Dudley ;E
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Peter D. T. A. Elliott ;F
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Vance Faber
*Siemion Fajtlowicz
*Ralph Faudree
*László Fejes Tóth
*William Feller
*Peter C. Fishburn
*Aviezri Fraenkel
*Péter Frankl
*Wolfgang Heinrich Johannes Fuchs ;G
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Janos Galambos
*Tibor Gallai
*Fred Galvin
*Leonard Gillman
*Michael Golomb
*Ronald Graham
*Sidney Graham
*Andrew Granville
*Branko Grünbaum
*Hansraj Gupta
*Richard K. Guy
*András Gyárfás ;H
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András Hajnal
*Frank Harary
*Hans Heilbronn
*Arthur M. Hobbs
*Alan Jerome Hoffman
*Verner Emil Hoggatt, Jr. ;I
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Albert Ingham ;J
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Vojtěch Jarník ;K
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Mark Kac
*Shizuo Kakutani
*Irving Kaplansky
*Jovan Karamata
*Ke Zhao
*Murray S. Klamkin
*Maria Klawe
*Daniel Kleitman
*Yoshiharu Kohayakawa
*Jurjen Ferdinand Koksma
*Steven Krantz
*Dieter Kratsch
*Kenneth Kunen ;L
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Jack van Lint
*László Lovász ;M
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Menachem Magidor
*Kurt Mahler
*Helmut Maier
*Solomon Marcus
*Robert McEliece
*Brendan McKay
*Eric C. Milner
* Hugh Montgomery
*Peter Montgomery
*Shlomo Moran
*Leo Moser
*M. Ram Murty
*V. Kumar Murty ;N
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Melvyn Nathanson
*Jaroslav Nešetřil
*Donald J. Newman
*Ivan M. Niven ;O
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Andrew Odlyzko
*Cyril Offord ;P
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Torrence Parsons
*Richard M. Pollack
*Carl Pomerance
*Karl Prachar ;R
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Richard Rado
*Alfréd Rényi
*Hans Riesel
*Bruce Lee Rothschild
*Cecil C. Rousseau
*Arthur Rubin
*Mary Ellen Rudin ;S
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Tibor Šalát
*Richard Schelp
*Andrzej Schinzel
*John Selfridge
*Jeffrey Shallit
*Harold S. Shapiro
*Saharon Shelah
*Gustavus Simmons
*Alexander Soifer
*Vera Sós
*Ernst Specker
*Joel Spencer
*Doug Stinson
*Arthur Harold Stone
*Ernst G. Straus
*Mathukumalli V. Subbarao
*Mario Szegedy
*Gábor Szegő
*Esther Szekeres
*George Szekeres
*Endre Szemerédi ;T
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Alfred Tarski
*Alan D. Taylor
*Carsten Thomassen
*Gérald Tenenbaum
*Robert Tijdeman
*Pál Turán
*W. T. Tutte ;U
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Stanislaw Ulam ;V
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Egbert van Kampen ;W
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Samuel S. Wagstaff Jr.
* Robin Wilson;Y
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Frances Foong Yao #2
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Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar
*Belmannu Acharya
*Leonard Adleman
*Gordon Agnew
*Ian F. Akyildiz
*Michael H. Albert
*David Aldous
*W. R. (Red) Alford
*Ahmet Alkan
*Eric Allender
*Warren Ambrose
*Robert Ammann
* George Andrews
*Tom M. Apostol
*Tzvi Arad
*Richard Friederich Arens
*Emil Artin
*Michael Aschbacher
*Richard Askey
*James Aspnes
*A. O. L. Atkin
*Herman Auerbach ;B
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Eric Bach
*David H. Bailey
*Alan Baker
*Ramachandran Balasubramanian
*Michel Balazard
*Bohuslav Balcar
*Zoltán Tibor Balogh
*Stefan Banach
*Ruth Aaronson Bari
*Michael Barnsley
*Tomek Bartoszyński
*Jon Barwise
*Eric Baum
*József Beck
*Richard Bellman
*Nuel Belnap
*Serge Belongie
*Rafael Benguria
*Claude Berge
*Peter Bergmann
*Elwyn Berlekamp
*Bruce C. Berndt
*R. Stephen Berry
*Tom Berson
*Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch
*Evert Willem Beth
*Andrzej Białynicki-Birula
*RH Bing
*Kenneth Binmore
*Bryan John Birch
*Garrett Birkhoff
*Pamela J. Bjorkman
*David Blackwell
*Brian Blank
*Woody Bledsoe
*Manuel Blum
*Salomon Bochner
*Hans L. Bodlaender
*Enrico Bombieri
*Dan Boneh
*Richard Borcherds
*Allan Borodin
*Karol Borsuk
*David Borwein
*Jonathan Borwein
*Peter Borwein
*Prosenjit K. Bose
*Raj Chandra Bose
*Jean Bourgain
*Stephen R. Bourne
*Steven Brams
*Gilles Brassard
*Richard Brauer
*Jonathan Vincent Bray
*Jorg Brendle
* Richard Brent
*David Bressoud
*Gunnar Brinkmann
*Andrei Broder
*Andries Brouwer
* Gavin Brown
*Martin D. Buhmann ;C
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Eugenio Calabi
*Robert Calderbank
*Lennart Carleson
*Leonard Carlitz
*Paz Carmi
* Pierre Cartier
*J. W. S. Cassels
*Vint Cerf
*Timothy M. Chan
*Bernard Chazelle
*Shiing-Shen Chern
*Maria Chudnovsky
*William Gemmell Cochran
*Henri Cohen
*Sidney Coleman
*Edward Collingwood
*Irving Copi
*Don Coppersmith
*Derek Corneil
*Thomas M. Cover
*Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter
*Richard Crandall
*Claude Crépeau
*Ernie Croot
*Ákos Császár
*Sándor Csörgő
*Marianna Csörnyei ;D
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Ivan Damgård
*David van Dantzig
*George Dantzig
* James Davenport
*Kenneth Davidson
*Carl R. de Boor
*Ermelinda DeLaVina
*Erik Demaine
*Arthur P. Dempster
*Keith Devlin
*Jeff Dinitz
*Michael Dinneen
*Hans Dobbertin
*David P. Dobkin
*Bruce Dodson
*Shlomi Dolev
*Joseph Leo Doob
*Adrien Douady
*Qiang Du
*Tom Duff
*Pierre Dusart
*Bernard Dwork
*Freeman Dyson ;E
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A. Ross Eckler, Jr.
*Katsuya Eda
*Jack Edmonds
*Samuel Eilenberg
*Albert Einstein
*David Eisenbud
*Noam Elkies
*Per Enflo
*David Eppstein
*Shimon Even
*Hugh Everett
*Howard Eves ;F
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Solomon Feferman
*Charles Fefferman
*Uriel Feige
*Lipót Fejér
*Michael Fekete
*Amos Fiat
*Nathan Fine
*Josh Fisher
*Ronald Fisher
*Philippe Flajolet
*Herbert Fleischner
*Matthew Foreman
*M. K. Fort, Jr.
*Hubert de Fraysseix
*Michael Freedman
*Chris Freiling
*David Fremlin
*Peter G. O. Freund
*Ophir Frieder
*John Friedlander
*Harvey Friedman
*Kurt O. Friedrichs
*D. R. Fulkerson
*William Fulton
*Hillel Furstenberg ;G
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Dov Gabbay
*David Gale
*Zvi Galil
*Mario Garavaglia
*Martin Gardner
*Michael Garey
*William Gehrlein
*Moti Gitik
*Sheldon Lee Glashow
*Stanisław Gołąb
*Dorian M. Goldfeld
*Oded Goldreich
*Herman Goldstine
*Daniel Goldston
*Shafi Goldwasser
*Eric Goles
*Solomon W. Golomb
*Gene H. Golub
*Martin Aaron Golubitsky
*Martin Charles Golumbic
*Ralph E. Gomory
* Cameron Gordon
*Mark Goresky
* Jim Gray
*Ben Green
*Curtis Greene
*Thomas N.E. Greville
*Dima Grigoriev
*Rami Grossberg
*Emil Grosswald
*Helen G. Grundman
*Leonidas J. Guibas
*Max Gunzburger ;H
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Hugo Hadwiger
*Jaroslav Hájek
*Heini Halberstam
* Marshall Hall
*Paul Halmos
*G. H. Hardy
*Glyn Harman
*Leo Harrington
*Hiroshi Haruki
*Mahdieh Hasheminezhad
*Helmut Hasse
*Johan Håstad
*David Haussler
*Leon Henkin
*Gabor Herman
*Israel Nathan Herstein
*Edwin Hewitt
*Graham Higman
*Einar Carl Hille
*Peter Hilton
*David V. Hinkley
*Edmund Hlawka
*Wilfrid Hodges
*Alfred Horn
*Roger Howe
*John Mackintosh Howie
*Ehud Hrushovski
*Roger Hui
*Alexander Hurwitz
*Martin Huxley ;I
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Douglas Iannucci
*Neil Immerman
*Russell Impagliazzo
*Henryk Iwaniec ;J
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David M. Jackson
*Thomas Jech
*Meyer Jerison
*Jia Rongqing
*Carl Jockusch
*David S. Johnson
* Norman Johnson
*Norman Lloyd Johnson
*F. Burton Jones
* Peter Jones
* Roger Jones
*Bjarni Jónsson
*Dominic Joyce
*Haim Judah
*István Juhász
*Matti Jutila ;K
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Jean-Pierre Kahane
*Gil Kalai
*Olav Kallenberg
*László Kalmár
*Akihiro Kanamori
*Ravindran Kannan
*Kao Cheng-yan
*Anna Karlin
*Narendra Karmarkar
*Richard Karp
*Marek Karpinski
*Gyula O. H. Katona
*Gyula Y. Katona
*Matthew J. Katz
*Yitzhak Katznelson
*Louis Kauffman
*Alexander S. Kechris
*Howard Jerome Keisler
*Joseph Keller
* Ken Kennedy
* Jack Kiefer
*Clark Kimberling
*John Kingman
*William English Kirwan
*David Klarner
*John R. Klauder
*Victor Klee
*Virginia C. Klema
*Bronisław Knaster
*Konrad Knopp
*Donald Knuth
*Kunihiko Kodaira
*Menachem Kojman
*Eugene Koonin
*András Kornai
*Thomas Körner
*S. Rao Kosaraju
*Ronnie Kosloff
*Bertram Kostant
*Evangelos Kranakis
*Clyde Kruskal
*Joseph Kruskal
*Harold W. Kuhn
*Markus Kuhn
*Krystyna Kuperberg
*Włodzimierz Kuperberg
*Kazimierz Kuratowski ;L
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Miklós Laczkovich
*Claude Laflamme
*Jeffrey Lagarias
*Ming-Jun Lai
*Brian LaMacchia
*Joachim Lambek
*Edmund Landau
*Eric Lander
*Robert Langlands
*Michael Langston
*Michael C. Laskowski
*Lucien Le Cam
*Imre Leader
* Jon Lee
*Charles Leedham-Green
*Derrick Henry Lehmer
*Emma Lehmer
*Abraham Lempel
*Arjen Lenstra
*Hendrik Lenstra
*Nancy Leveson
*Leonid Levin
*Raphael David Levine
*Norman Levinson
*Donald John Lewis
*Paul Leyland
*André Lichnerowicz
*Elliott H. Lieb
*Karl Lieberherr
*Mathieu Liedloff
*Yuri Linnik
*Jacques-Louis Lions
*Richard J. Lipton
*Barbara Liskov
*John Little
*John Edensor Littlewood
*Chung Laung Liu
*Jaume Llibre
*Charles Loewner
*Darrell Long
*Lee Lorch
*Michael Luby
*R. Duncan Luce
*Joaquin Mazdak Luttinger ;M
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Kevin McCurley
*Ian G. Macdonald
*Eugene McDonnell
*Angus MacIntyre
*Sheila Scott Macintyre
* David MacKay
* John McKay
*George Mackey
*Jeanette Macleod
*Jessie MacWilliams
*Roger Maddux
*Thomas L. Magnanti
*Ayan Mahalanobis [http://www.math.stevens.edu/~amahalan]
*Dorothy Maharam
*Paul Malliavin
*Udi Manber
*Heikki Mannila
*Thomas A. Manteuffel
*Edward Marczewski
*Harry Markowitz
*Alison Marr
*Robert Marshak
*Donald A. Martin
*Anders Martin-Löf
*Dragan Marušič
*Eric Maskin
*David Masser
*James Massey
*Yuri Matiyasevich
*Barry Mazur
*Peter Mazur
*Stanisław Mazur
*Kurt Mehlhorn
*Nicholas Metropolis
*Yves Meyer
*Jan Mikusinski
*Victor S. Miller
*Vitali Milman
*Michał Misiurewicz
*François Morain
*Louis Mordell
*Carlos J. Moreno
*Frederick Mosteller
*Andrzej Mostowski
*Theodore Motzkin
*David Mumford
*Jan Mycielski ;N
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David Naccache
*Subhas C. Nandy
*Moni Naor
*Crispin St. J. A. Nash-Williams
* Evelyn Nelson
*Yuri Valentinovich Nesterenko
*Bernhard Neumann
*Peter M. Neumann
*Víctor Neumann-Lara
*Miron Nicolescu
*Simon P. Norton
*Peter Nyikos ;O
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Jim K. Omura
*Paul van Oorschot
*Donald Samuel Ornstein
*Patrice Ossona de Mendez
*Rafail Ostrovsky
*Alexander Ostrowski ;P
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Igor Pak
*Victor Pambuccian
*Jeff Paris
*Jonathan Partington
*Oren Patashnik
*Raj Pathria
*Gheorghe Paun
*Luke Pebody
*Heinz-Otto Peitgen
* David Peleg
*József Pelikán
*Subbayya Sivasankaranarayana Pillai
*Nick Pippenger
*Tomaž Pisanski
*David Plaisted
*Vera Pless
*Amir Pnueli
*George Pólya
*Cheryl Praeger
*Vaughan Ronald Pratt
*Thomas Prellberg
*Franco P. Preparata
*Karel Prikry
*Teodor Przymusiński ;Q
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Louis Quintas
*Jean-Jacques Quisquater ;R
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Michael O. Rabin
*Charles Rackoff
*Stanisław Radziszowski
*Stefan Ralescu
*Olivier Ramaré
*Dana Randall
*C. R. Rao
*Louise Arakelian-Raphael
*Steen Rasmussen
*Michel Raynaud
*D.K. Ray-Chaudhuri
*Alexander Razborov
*László Rédei
*George M. Reed
*Irving S. Reed
*Edward Reingold
*Omer Reingold
*Frigyes Riesz
*Gerhard Ringel
*John Riordan
*Jorma Rissanen
*Ron Rivest
*Herbert Robbins
*Abraham Robinson
*Judith Roitman
*Gian-Carlo Rota
*Klaus Roth
*Gordon Royle
*Ariel Rubinstein
*Steven Rudich
*Walter Rudin
*Czesław Ryll-Nardzewski ;S
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Donald G. Saari
*Thomas L. Saaty
*Jawad Salehi
*Raphaël Salem
*Arto Salomaa
*Peter Sarnak
*Claus P. Schnorr
*Isaac Jacob Schoenberg
*Arnold Schönhage
*Richard Schroeppel
*Issai Schur
*Dana Scott
*Jennifer Seberry
*Atle Selberg
*Jean-Pierre Serre
*Simone Severini
*Adi Shamir
*Micha Sharir
*Goro Shimura
*S. S. Shrikhande
*Wacław Sierpiński
*Joseph H. Silverman
*Thoralf Skolem
*David Slepian
*Neil Sloane
*Cedric Smith
*Gustave Solomon
*Robert M. Solovay
*Eugene Spafford
*Richard P. Stanley
*Michael Starbird
*Harold Stark
*Sergey Borisovich Stechkin
*J. Michael Steele
*Elias M. Stein
*Hugo Steinhaus
*Jacques Stern
*Shlomo Sternberg
*Marshall Harvey Stone
*Volker Strassen
*Daniel W. Stroock
*Bernd Sturmfels
*Madhu Sudan
*Sun Zhiwei
*Klaus Sutner
*Peter Swinnerton-Dyer ;T
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Franklin Tall
* Dov Tamari
*Richard A. Tapia
*Éva Tardos
*Gábor Tardos
*Robert Tarjan
*Olga Taussky-Todd
*Herman J.J. te Riele
*Max Tegmark
*Shang-Hua Teng
*Thorsten Theobald
*William Thurston
* John Todd
*Stevo Todorčević
*Godfried Toussaint
*Marcello Truzzi
*Albert W. Tucker
*Bryant Tuckerman
*John Tukey
*Helge Tverberg
*Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff ;U
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George Eugene Uhlenbeck
*Jeffrey Ullman ;V
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Alfred van der Poorten
*Harry Vandiver
*Eric van Douwen
*Jan van Mill
*Scott Vanstone
*S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan
*Robert Lawson Vaught
*Anatoly Vershik
*Petr Vopěnka
*Gheorghe Vrânceanu ;W
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Stan Wagon
*Abraham Wald
*Peng-Jun Wan
*Ian Wanless
*John Clive Ward
*Michael Waterman
*Peter J. Weinberger
*Lloyd R. Welch
*Andrew B. Whinston
*Douglas R. White
*Hassler Whitney
*Norbert Wiener
*Avi Wigderson
*Herbert Wilf
*Alex Wilkie
*Yorick Wilks
*Robert Arnott Wilson
*Shmuel Winograd
*Jack Keil Wolf
*Thomas Wolff
*Jacob Wolfowitz
*Stephen Wolfram
*W. Hugh Woodin
*Trevor Wooley
*E. M. Wright
*Mario Wschebor ;Y
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Andrew Yao
*Shing-Tung Yau
*Moti Yung ;Z
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Don Zagier
*Hans Julius Zassenhaus
*Doron Zeilberger
*Günter M. Ziegler
*Paul Zimmermann
*Štefan Znám
*Herbert Zuckerman
*Antoni Zygmund #3
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Carlisle Adams
*Manindra Agrawal
*Yakir Aharonov
*Kenneth Arrow
*Michael Artin
*Robert Aumann ;B
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W. W. Rouse Ball
*Nina Bari
*Hyman Bass
*Gilbert Baumslag
*Eli Biham
*Joan Birman
*Alex Biryukov
*Armand Borel
*Max Born
*Raoul Bott
*Samuel L. Braunstein
*Roger W. Brockett
* William Browder
*Lawrie Brown
*Viggo Brun ;C
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Luis Caffarelli
*Guido Caldarelli
*Alberto Calderón
*David J E Callaway
*Élie Cartan
*Henri Cartan
*Gregory Chaitin
*David Chaum
*Jeff Cheeger
* Jacek Cichoń
*Alain Connes
*Stephen Cook
* David Cox;D
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Ingrid Daubechies
*Paul Davies
*Ennio de Giorgi
*Gerard Debreu
*Pierre Deligne
*Whitfield Diffie
*Jack Dongarra
*Clifford Hugh Dowker
*Eugene Dynkin ;E
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John Carew Eccles ;F
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Herbert Federer
*Walter Feit
*Enrico Fermi
*Richard Feynman
*Thomas Fink
*Paul Frampton
*Hans Freudenthal
*Ferdinand Georg Frobenius
*Kenichi Fukui ;G
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Israel Gelfand
*Murray Gell-Mann
*Andrew Gleason
*Paul Glendinning
*Kurt Gödel
*Daniel Gorenstein
*Brian Greene
*Phillip Griffiths
*Mikhail Gromov
*Victor Guillemin ;H
* Richard Hamilton
*Robin Hartshorne
*Herbert Hauptman
*Martin Hellman
*Friedrich Hirzebruch
*C.A.R. Hoare
*Melvin Hochster
*John Hopcroft
*Lars Hörmander ;I
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Kiyoshi Itō
*Kenneth Iverson ;J
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Nathan Jacobson
*Zvonimir Janko
*Jonathan A. Jones
*Vaughan Jones ;K
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Burt Kaliski
*Daniel Kane
*David Kazhdan
*Joseph Keller
*Robion Kirby
*Jon Kleinberg
*Lars Knudsen
*Christof Koch
*Joseph Kohn
*Walter Kohn
*Maxim Kontsevich ;L
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Xuejia Lai
*Willis Lamb
*Serge Lang
*Peter Lax
* John Leech
*Solomon Lefschetz
*Jean Leray
*Hans Lewy
*Michael L. Littman
*George Lusztig ;M
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Dusa McDuff
* John Mackey
*Saunders Mac Lane
*Curtis McMullen
*Robert MacPherson
*Benoît Mandelbrot
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* John Mather
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*Shigefumi Mori
*Jürgen Moser
* Sean Murphy;N
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Louis Nirenberg
*Sergei Petrovich Novikov ;O
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Andrei Okounkov
*Lars Onsager
*Øystein Ore
*Mark Overmars ;P
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Raymond Paley
*Jacob Palis
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*Steven Pemberton
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*John Platt
*Josef Pieprzyk
*Bart Preneel
*Ilya Prigogine
*Rudolf Podgornik
*Geoffrey Pullum
*Ilya Pyatetskii-Shapiro ;Q
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Daniel Quillen ;R
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Tibor Radó
*Srinivasa Ramanujan
*Norman Ramsey
*Kenneth Alan Ribet
*Matt Robshaw
*Phillip Rogaway
*Pierre Rosenstiehl ;S
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Abdus Salam
*Richard Schoen
*Jan Arnoldus Schouten
*Erwin Schrödinger
*Jean-Pierre Serre
*Claude Shannon
*Carl Ludwig Siegel
*Herbert Simon
*Isadore Singer
*Donald C. Spencer
*John R. Steel
*Norman Steenrod
*Charles Stein
*Robert Steinberg
*Otto Stern
*Dennis Sullivan
*Michio Suzuki ;T
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Terence Tao
*John Tate
*John G. Thompson
*Stanisław Trybuła ;U
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Karen Uhlenbeck ;V
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Leslie Valiant
*Serge Vaudenay
*Michael Viscardi
*John von Neumann ;W
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David Wagner
*Steven Weinberg
*David B. Weinberger
*Eric W. Weisstein
*Barry Wellman
*Wendelin Werner
*John Archibald Wheeler
*Arthur Whitney
*Eugene Wigner
*Frank Wilczek
*Andrew Wiles
*Edward Witten
*William Wootters
*Gisbert Wüstholz ;Y
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Jean-Christophe Yoccoz ;Z
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Lotfi Asker Zadeh
*Oscar Zariski
*Efim Zelmanov
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