List of American mathematicians

This is a list of articles on American mathematicians.

• 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."
• 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)
• Richard Bellman (1920-1984)
• Javier Perez-Capdevila (b. 1963 in Cuba)
• Benjamin Banneker (1731–1806)
• Augustin Banyaga (b. 1947 in Rwanda)
• Robert Daniel Carmichael (1879-1967)
• William Schieffelin Claytor (1908–1967), third African-American to earn a Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania ^[1][2]
• Katherine Johnson (b. 1918)
• David Blackwell (1919–2010)
• Marjorie Lee Browne (1914–1979), taught at North Carolina Central University
• Elbert Frank Cox (1895–1969), first black person in the world to earn a Ph.D. in Mathematics, Cornell University
• Joseph J. Dennis (1905–1977), Clark College
• Etta Zuber Falconer (1933–2002)
• Lisa Fauci, applied mathematician who applies computational fluid dynamics to biological processes.
• Erica Flapan, researcher in low-dimensional topology and knot theory
• Ralph Fox (1913-1973)
• Daniel Gorenstein (1923-1992)
• Evelyn Boyd Granville (b. 1924)
• Euphemia Haynes (1890–1980), first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics
• Gloria Conyers Hewitt (born 1935)
• Clifford Victor Johnson (?, awarded B.S. from Imperial College in 1989)
• Suzanne Lenhart, researcher in partial differential equations, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics from 2001 to 2003.
• Harold W. Kuhn (1925-2014)
• James Lepowsky (1944-)
• Marie Litzinger, (1899–1952), American number theorist
• Barry Mazur (1937-)
• Kelly Miller (1863–1939)
• Marston Morse (1892-1977)
• Frederick Mosteller (1916-2006)
• Vera Pless, (1931– ), mathematician specializing in combinatorics and coding theory
• Charles Reason (1818–1893)
• Herbert Robbins (1915-2001)
• Claude Shannon (1916-2001)
• Raymond Smullyan (1919-)
• Link Starbureiy
• Clarence F. Stephens (b. 1917)
• Lee Stiff (b. 1941) ^[3]
• Walter R. Talbot (1909–1979), fourth African-American to earn a Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh
• Jean Taylor (1944-)
• John Urschel (b. 1991)
• John Tukey (1915-2000)
• Herbert Wilf (1931-2012)
• J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr. (1923–2011)
• Dudley Weldon Woodard (1881–1965), second African-American to earn a Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania

References

1. "William Claytor, a mathematical genius". African American Registry. Retrieved 2015-02-26.
2. "Williams W. Schieffelin Claytor". Mathematicians of the African Diaspora. Retrieved 2015-02-26.
3. Listed by the NCSU College of Education, in a citation for their Distinguished Alumni Award, as being the recipient of the 1993 NCSU Provost’s African-American Professional Development Award.