List of Jewish American mathematicians

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

• Milton Abramowitz, mathematician *
• Abraham Adrian Albert, abstract algebra *^[1]
• Kenneth Appel, four-color problem ^[2]
• Robert Aumann, mathematician in game theory; Nobel Prize in Economics (2005)
• Richard Bellman, dynamic programming *
• Lipman Bers, non-linear elliptic equations ^[3]
• 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, mathematician *
• George Dantzig, simplex algorithm *
• Martin Davis, mathematician *
• Persi Diaconis, statistician (Jewish mother) *
• Jesse Douglas, mathematician, Fields Medal (1936) ^[4]
• Samuel Eilenberg, category theorist *
• Noam Elkies, mathematician * ^[5]
• Charles Fefferman, mathematician, Fields Medal (1978) *
• Mitchell Feigenbaum, chaos theorist ^[6]
• William Feller, probability theory ^[7]
• Michael Freedman, mathematician, Fields Medal (1986) (Jewish father) *
• Dorian Goldfeld, number theorist, Cole Prize *
• Michael Golomb, theory of approximation ^[8]
• Solomon Golomb, polyominoes ^[9]
• Dovid Gottlieb, mathematition
• Paul Halmos, mathematician *
• E. Morton Jellinek, biostatistician ^[10]
• Mark Kac, mathematician *
• Irving Kaplansky, mathematician *
• Edward Kasner, mathematician ^[11]
• Nick Katz, algebraic geometry *
• Joseph B. Keller, applied mathematician, National Medal of Science, Wolf Prize, Royal Society (Foreign Member)
• Martin Kruskal, mathematician *
• Cornelius Lanczos, mathematician and mathematical physicist ^[12]
• Peter Lax, mathematician, Abel Prize (2005) *
• Solomon Lefschetz, algebraic topology *
• Emma Lehmer, mathematician ^[13]
• Norman Levinson, mathematician *
• George Lusztig, representation theory *
• Barry Mazur, mathematician *
• Ernest A. Michael, general topology *
• Louis Mordell, number theorist *
• Boris Mordukhovich, variational analysis *
• John von Neumann, mathematician ^[14]
• Emanuel Parzen, mathematician
• George Pólya, mathematician *
• Emil Post, logician *
• Herbert Robbins, statistician *
• Abraham Robinson, nonstandard analysis *
• Arthur Rubin, mathematician
• Shlomo Sawilowsky, statistician
• Gary Seitz, mathematician *
• Isadore Singer, mathematician, Abel Prize (2004) *
• Richard P. Stanley, mathematician *
• Elias Stein, mathematician *
• Shlomo Sternberg, mathematician
• Stanislaw Ulam, mathematician *
• André Weil, mathematician *
• Norbert Wiener, mathematician, Bôcher Memorial Prize, National Medal of Science *
• Edward Witten, M-theory, Fields Medal (1990) *
• Oscar Zariski, algebraic geometry *

See also

• List of Jewish mathematicians

Footnotes

1. "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"
5. http://www.jinfo.org/Mathematics_Comp.html
7. "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)..."
11. 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.

External links

• Comprehensive list - from JINFO.ORG; names that can be sourced there are starred *