List of Jewish mathematicians
List of Jewish mathematicians is a list that includes mathematicians who are or were both non-American and verifiably Jewish or of Jewish descent. In 1933, when the Nazis rose to power in Germany, one-third of all mathematics professors in the country were Jewish, while Jews constituted less than one percent of the population.[1]
A-G
- Abraham Adrian Albert, mathematician
- Abraham Manie Adelstein,[2] statistician
- Kenneth Appel, mathematician
- Robert Aumann, mathematician game theory; Nobel Prize in Economics (2005)
- Vladimir Arnold, mathematician
- Hertha Ayrton,[3] mathematician and engineer
- Laurence Baxter, statistician[4]
- Felix Bernstein, set theory[3]
- Abram Besicovitch [4], Russian-born British mathematician (Karaite)
- Maurice Block (1816–1901) statistician [5]
- Richard Brauer, modular representation theory[5]
- Haïm Brezis, functional analysis and partial differential equations
- Selig Brodetsky,[6] mathematician and President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews
- Jacob Bronowski [6], mathematician & broadcaster
- Georg Cantor, set theory
- Moritz Cantor, historian of mathematics[7]
- Paul Cohn, algebraist [8]
- Richard Courant, mathematical analysis & applied mathematics[7]
- H.E. Daniels,[9] statistician
- Philip Dawid [8], statistician
- Max Dehn, topology[9]
- Federigo Enriques, algebraic geometer
- Paul Epstein, number theory[10]
- Arthur Erdelyi,[10] mathematician
- Paul Erdős [11]
- John Fox, statistician
- Adolf Fraenkel, set theory[12]
- Hans Freudenthal, algebraic topology[13]
- Albrecht Frohlich [14]
- David Glass,[11] demographer
- Sydney Goldstein [15], expert on fluid mechanics
- Tomer Chachamu, expert on model theory
- Benjamin Gompertz [16], mathematician
- Eugene Grebenik [17], demographer
- Alexander Grothendieck, mathematician
H-R
- Steven Haberman [19], professor of actuarial science
- Jacques Hadamard (1865–1963) mathematician[20]
- John Hajnal, demographer (JYB 2005 p215)
- Heini Halberstam, number theory
- Felix Hausdorff, topology[21]
- Hans Heilbronn (JYB 1977, p207)
- Heinz Hopf, topology (Jewish father)[22]
- Adolf Hurwitz, mathematician[23]
- Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi, analysis[24]
- Joseph Keller, applied mathematician, National Medal of Science, Wolf Prize
- Thomas Körner, mathematician [12]
- Leopold Kronecker, number theory[25]
- Edmund Landau, number theory[26]
- Ruth Lawrence [27], mathematician & child prodigy
- Tullio Levi-Civita, mathematician, absolute differential calculus (Tensor calculus)
- Norman Levinson, mathematician, non-linear differential calculus, number theory, probability
- Rudolf Lipschitz, mathematician[28]
- Kurt Mahler, mathematician[29]; (JYB 2005 p214)
- Benoit Mandelbrot, mathematician
- Hermann Minkowski, geometrical theory of numbers[13]
- Sir Claus Moser [30], statistician
- Louis Mordell [31], number theorist
- Leonard Nelson, mathematician, philosopher[32]
- Bernhard Neumann, mathematician[33]; (JYB 2005 p214)
- Emmy Noether, algebra & theoretical physics
- Grigori Perelman, proved Poincaré Conjecture
- Alfred Pringsheim, analysis, theory of functions[34]
- Richard Rado [35], mathematician
- Abraham Robinson, nonstandard analysis[36]
- Olinde Rodrigues (1795–1851) mathematician & social reformer[37]
- Klaus Roth, diophantine approximation, Fields Medal (1958)[38][39]
S-Z
- Stanisław Saks, (1897–1942) measure theory [40]
- Arthur Moritz Schönflies, mathematician[41]
- Issai Schur, mathematician [42]
- Laurent Schwartz (1915–2002) mathematician, Fields Medal (1950)[43]
- Gary Seitz, group theory
- David Spiegelhalter, statistician (JYB 2007 p. 198)
- Shlomo Sternberg, mathematician
- James Joseph Sylvester, mathematician [44]
- Otto Toeplitz, linear algebra & functional analysis [45]
- Pál Turán, number theory [46]
- Vito Volterra (1860–1940) mathematician, Functional (mathematics), mathematical biology, integral equations
- John von Neumann, set theory, quantum mechanics, computer science, economics
- André Weil (1906–1998) mathematician, Wolf Prize (1979)[47]
- Oscar Zariski (1899–1986) algebraic geometer
- Efim Isaakovich Zelmanov (7 September 1955) mathematician, Fields Medal
See also
References
- JYB = Jewish Year Book
Footnotes
- ^ Setting the record straight about Jewish mathematicians in Nazi Germany, Haaretz
- ^ article in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ article in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ Death notices in Jewish Chronicle, 15 November 1996 p 31; confirms Sidney Hart was his uncle
- ^ Encyclopædia Britannica 11th ed: "He was born in Berlin of Jewish parents. He studied at Bonn and Giessen, but settled in Paris, becoming naturalized there"
- ^ [1]: "These include the papers of Anglo-Jewish leaders, such as Selig Brodetsky"
- ^ Jewish Encyclopedia
- ^ Obituary in The Times "he was born in Hamburg in 1924 to Jewish parents" Accessed 9 July 2008.
- ^ article in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ Jewish: [2]; British: Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "became naturalised British citizen, 1947"
- ^ Obituary, Jewish Chronicle, Oct. 6 1978, p.32
- ^ Two Jewish parents: Stephan Körner (JYB 2005 p215) and Edith Körner
- ^ Contemporary Authors V 162 By Rooney, Scot Peacock, Pg 169
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