This list of Jewish mathematicians includes mathematicians and statisticians who are or were verifiably

Jew Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""T ...

ish or of Jewish descent. In 1933, when the

Nazis Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in N ...

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. Jewish mathematicians made major contributions throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, as is evidenced by their high representation among the winners of major

mathematics awards This list of mathematics awards is an index to articles about notable awards for mathematics. The list is organized by the region and country of the organization that sponsors the award, but awards may be open to mathematicians from around the wo ...

: 27% for the

Fields Medal The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians under 40 years of age at the International Congress of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), a meeting that takes place every four years. The name of the award h ...

, 30% for the

Abel Prize The Abel Prize ( ; no, Abelprisen ) is awarded annually by the King of Norway to one or more outstanding mathematicians. It is named after the Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel (1802–1829) and directly modeled after the Nobel Pri ...

, and 40% for the

Wolf Prize The Wolf Prize is an international award granted in Israel, that has been presented most years since 1978 to living scientists and artists for ''"achievements in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among people ... irrespective of nati ...

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* Abner of Burgos ( 1270– 1347), mathematician and philosopher * Abraham Abigdor (14th century), logician * Milton Abramowitz (1915–1958), mathematician *

Samson Abramsky Samson Abramsky (born 12 March 1953) is Professor of Computer Science at University College London. He was previously the Christopher Strachey Professor of Computing at the University of Oxford, from 2000 to 2021. He has made contributions to ...

(born 1953), game semantics *

Amir Aczel Amir Dan Aczel (; November 6, 1950 – November 26, 2015) was an Israeli-born American lecturer in mathematics and the history of mathematics and science, and an author of popular books on mathematics and science. Biography Amir D. Aczel was b ...

(1950–2015), history of mathematics *

Georgy Adelson-Velsky Georgy Maximovich Adelson-Velsky (russian: Гео́ргий Макси́мович Адельсо́н-Ве́льский; name is sometimes transliterated as Georgii Adelson-Velskii) (8 January 1922 – 26 April 2014) was a Soviet and Israeli m ...

(1922–2014), mathematician and computer scientist * Abraham Adelstein (1916–1992), statistics * Caleb Afendopolo ( 1430– 1499), mathematician, astronomer, poet, and rabbi * Aaron Afia (16th century), mathematician, physician and philosopher *

Shmuel Agmon Shmuel Agmon ( he, שמואל אגמון; born 2 February 1922) is an Israeli mathematician. He is known for his work in analysis and partial differential equations. Biography Shmuel Agmon was born in Tel Aviv to writer Nathan Agmon and Chaya G ...

(born 1922), mathematical analysis and partial differential equations * Matest Agrest (1915–2005), mathematician and pseudoscientist *

Ron Aharoni Ron Aharoni ( he, רון אהרוני ) (born 1952) is an Israeli mathematician, working in finite and infinite combinatorics. Aharoni is a professor at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, where he received his Ph.D. in mathematics i ...

(born 1952), combinatorics *

Bendich Ahin Bendich Ahin (died 1402), also known as Maestro Bendit and Baruch Chaim (, ''Barukh Ḥayyīm''), was a fourteenth-century Jewish physician, astrologer, and mathematician in Arles. In 1369, Ahin became court physician to Queen Joanna I of Naples. ...

(14th century), mathematician and physician * Michael Aizenman (born 1945), mathematician and physicist * Naum Akhiezer (1901–1980), approximation theory * Isaac Albalia (1035–1094), mathematician, astronomer, and Talmudist * Abraham Adrian Albert (1905–1972), algebra;

Cole Prize The Frank Nelson Cole Prize, or Cole Prize for short, is one of twenty-two prizes awarded to mathematicians by the American Mathematical Society, one for an outstanding contribution to algebra, and the other for an outstanding contribution to numbe ...

(1939) *

Félix Alcan Felix Mardochée Alcan (March 18, 1841 – February 18, 1925) was a French Jewish publisher and scholar, born in Metz. He was the grandson of Gerson Lévy, author of ''Orgue et Pioutim'', and son of Moyse Alcan, a well-known publisher at Metz. H ...

(1841–1925), mathematician *

Semyon Alesker Semyon Alesker ( he, סמיון אלסקר; born 1972 in Moscow, Soviet Union) is an Israeli mathematician at Tel Aviv University. For his contributions in convex geometry and integral geometry, in particular his work on valuations, he won the E ...

(born 1972), convex and integral geometry;

Erdős Prize The Anna and Lajos Erdős Prize in Mathematics is a prize given by the Israel Mathematical Union The Israel Mathematical Union (IMU) ( he, הַאִיגּוּד הַיִשְׂרְאֵלִי לְמָתֶמָטִיקָה) is an association of pr ...

(2004) * Al-Samawal al-Maghribi ( 1130– 1180), mathematician, astronomer and physician * Noga Alon (born 1956), combinatorics and theoretical computer science; Erdős Prize (1989), Pólya Prize (2000) * Franz Alt (1910–2011), mathematician and computer scientist *

Shimshon Amitsur Shimshon Avraham Amitsur (born Kaplan; he, שמשון אברהם עמיצור; August 26, 1921 – September 5, 1994) was an Israeli mathematician. He is best known for his work in ring theory, in particular PI rings, an area of abstract algebr ...

(1921–1994), mathematician * Jacob Anatoli ( 1194–1256), mathematician, scientist and translator * Aldo Andreotti (1924–1980), mathematician * Kenneth Appel (1932–2013), proved four-color theorem *

Zvi Arad Zvi Arad ( he, צבי ארד,16 April 1942, in Petah Tikva, Mandatory Palestine – 4 February 2018, in Petah Tikva, Israel) was an Israeli mathematician, acting president of Bar-Ilan University, and president of Netanya Academic College. Biograp ...

(1942–2018), mathematician * Vladimir Arnold (1937–2010), mathematician;

(2001) * Siegfried Aronhold (1819–1884), invariant theory *

Nachman Aronszajn Nachman Aronszajn (26 July 1907 – 5 February 1980) was a Polish American mathematician. Aronszajn's main field of study was mathematical analysis, where he systematically developed the concept of reproducing kernel Hilbert space. He also cont ...

(1907–1980), mathematical analysis and mathematical logic *

Kenneth Arrow Kenneth Joseph Arrow (23 August 1921 – 21 February 2017) was an American economist, mathematician, writer, and political theorist. He was the joint winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with John Hicks in 1972. In economi ...

(1921–2017), mathematician and economist;

Nobel Prize in Economics The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel ( sv, Sveriges riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne), is an economics award administered ...

(1972) *

Michael Artin Michael Artin (; born 28 June 1934) is a German-American mathematician and a professor emeritus in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology mathematics department, known for his contributions to algebraic geometry.Emilio Artom (1888–1952), mathematician *

Giulio Ascoli Giulio Ascoli (20 January 1843, Trieste – 12 July 1896, Milan) was a Jewish-Italian mathematician. He was a student of the Scuola Normale di Pisa, where he graduated in 1868. In 1872 he became Professor of Algebra and Calculus of the Pol ...

(1843–1869), mathematician *

Guido Ascoli Guido Ascoli (12 December 1887, in Livorno – 10 May 1957, in Torino) was an Italian mathematician, known for his contributions to the theory of partial differential equations, and for his works on the teaching of mathematics in secondary high ...

(1887–1957), mathematician *

Herman Auerbach Herman Auerbach (October 26, 1901, Tarnopol – August 17, 1942) was a Polish mathematician and member of the Lwów School of Mathematics. Auerbach was professor at Lwów University. During the Second World War because of his Jewish descent he ...

(1901–1942), mathematician *

Robert Aumann Robert John Aumann (Hebrew name: , Yisrael Aumann; born June 8, 1930) is an Israeli-American mathematician, and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He is a professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality in the Hebrew ...

(born 1930), mathematician and game theorist; Nobel Prize in Economics (2005) * Louis Auslander (1928–1997), mathematician *

Maurice Auslander Maurice Auslander (August 3, 1926 – November 18, 1994) was an American mathematician who worked on commutative algebra, homological algebra and the representation theory of Artin algebras (e.g. finite-dimensional associative algebras over a field ...

(1926–1994), algebra *

Hertha Ayrton Phoebe Sarah Hertha Ayrton (28 April 1854 – 26 August 1923) was a British engineer, mathematician, physicist and inventor, and suffragette. Known in adult life as Hertha Ayrton, born Phoebe Sarah Marks, she was awarded the Hughes Medal by the ...

(1854–1923), mathematician and engineer

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* Isaak Bacharach (1854–1942), mathematician *

Reinhold Baer Reinhold Baer (22 July 1902 – 22 October 1979) was a German mathematician, known for his work in algebra. He introduced injective modules in 1940. He is the eponym of Baer rings and Baer groups. Biography Baer studied mechanical engineerin ...

(1902–1979), algebra * Egon Balas (1922–2019), applied mathematics *

Yehoshua Bar-Hillel Yehoshua Bar-Hillel ( he, יהושע בר-הלל; 8 September 1915, in Vienna – 25 September 1975, in Jerusalem) was an Israeli philosopher, mathematician, and linguist. He was a pioneer in the fields of machine translation and formal linguis ...

(1915–1975), mathematician, philosopher and linguist *

Abraham bar Hiyya Abraham bar Ḥiyya ha-Nasi (; – 1136 or 1145), also known as Abraham Savasorda, Abraham Albargeloni, and Abraham Judaeus, was a Catalan Jewish mathematician, astronomer and philosopher who resided in Barcelona. Bar Ḥiyya was active in tra ...

(1070–1136 or 1145), mathematician, astronomer and philosopher *

Dror Bar-Natan Dror Bar-Natan ( he, דרוֹר בָר-נָתָן; born January 30, 1966) is a professor at the University of Toronto Department of Mathematics, Canada. His main research interests include knot theory, finite type invariants, and Khovanov homolog ...

(born 1966), knot theory and homology theory *

Ruth Barcan Marcus Ruth Barcan Marcus (; born Ruth Charlotte Barcan; 2 August 1921 – 19 February 2012) was an American academic philosopher and logician best known for her work in modal and philosophical logic. She developed the first formal systems of quant ...

(1921–2012), logician *

Grigory Barenblatt Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt (russian: Григо́рий Исаа́кович Баренблат; 10 July 1927 – 22 June 2018) was a Russian mathematician. Education Barenblatt graduated in 1950 from Moscow State University, Department of Me ...

(1927–2018), mathematician * Valentine Bargmann (1908–1989), mathematician and theoretical physicist *

Elijah Bashyazi Elijah ben Moses Bashyazi of Adrianople or Elijah Bašyazi (in he, אליהו בן משה בן מנחם) (c. 1420 in Adrianople – 1490 in Adrianople) was a Karaite Jewish hakham of the fifteenth century. After being instructed in the Karait ...

( 1420–1490), mathematician, astronomer, philosopher and rabbi *

Hyman Bass Hyman Bass (; born October 5, 1932). The conjecture is named for Hyman Bass and Daniel Quillen, who formulated the c ... References External links *Directory page at University of MichiganAuthor profilein the database zbMATH {{DEFAUL ...

(born 1932), algebra and mathematics education; Cole Prize (1975) * Laurence Baxter (1954–1996), statistician *

August Beer August Beer (; 31 July 1825 – 18 November 1863) was a German physicist, chemist, and mathematician of Jewish descent. Biography Beer was born in Trier, where he studied mathematics and natural sciences. Beer was educated at the technical s ...

(1825–1863), mathematician *

Alexander Beilinson Alexander A. Beilinson (born 1957) is the David and Mary Winton Green University professor at the University of Chicago and works on mathematics. His research has spanned representation theory, algebraic geometry and mathematical physics. In 1 ...

(born 1957), mathematician; Wolf Prize (2018) *

Richard Bellman Richard Ernest Bellman (August 26, 1920 – March 19, 1984) was an American applied mathematician, who introduced dynamic programming in 1953, and made important contributions in other fields of mathematics, such as biomathematics. He founde ...

(1920–1984), applied mathematics *

Kalonymus ben Kalonymus Kalonymus ben Kalonymus ben Meir (Hebrew: קלונימוס בן קלונימוס), also romanized as Qalonymos ben Qalonymos or Calonym ben Calonym, also known as Maestro Calo (Arles, 1286 – died after 1328) was a Jewish philosopher and transl ...

(1286– 1328), philosopher, mathematician and translator * Isaac ben Moses Eli (15th century), mathematician * Jacob ben Nissim (10th century), philosopher and mathematician * Judah ben Solomon ( 1215– 1274), mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher * Paul Benacerraf (born 1931), philosophy of mathematics * Lazarus Bendavid (1762–1832), mathematician and philosopher * Felix Berezin (1931–1980), mathematician and physicist * Boris Berezovsky (1946–2013), mathematician and businessman *

Toby Berger Toby Berger (September 4, 1940 – May 25, 2022) was an American information theorist. Early life and education Berger was born in New York City, to a Jewish family. He received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Yale University ...

(born 1940), information theory *

Stefan Bergman Stefan Bergman (5 May 1895 – 6 June 1977) was a Congress Poland-born American mathematician whose primary work was in complex analysis. His name is also written Bergmann; he dropped the second "n" when he came to the U. S. He is best known for t ...

(1895–1977), complex analysis *

Paul Bernays Paul Isaac Bernays (17 October 1888 – 18 September 1977) was a Swiss mathematician who made significant contributions to mathematical logic, axiomatic set theory, and the philosophy of mathematics. He was an assistant and close collaborator of ...

(1888–1977), foundations of mathematics * Benjamin Abram Bernstein (1881–1964), mathematical logic * Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (1914–1988), applied mathematics * Felix Bernstein (1878–1956), set theory *

Joseph Bernstein Joseph Bernstein (sometimes spelled I. N. Bernshtein; he, יוס(י)ף נאומוביץ ברנשטיין; russian: Иосиф Наумович Бернштейн; born 18 April 1945) is a Soviet-born Israeli mathematician working at Tel Aviv Un ...

(born 1945), algebraic geometry, representation theory, and number theory * Sergei Bernstein (1880–1968), mathematician *

Lipman Bers Lipman Bers ( Latvian: ''Lipmans Berss''; May 22, 1914 – October 29, 1993) was a Latvian-American mathematician, born in Riga, who created the theory of pseudoanalytic functions and worked on Riemann surfaces and Kleinian groups. He was also ...

(1914–1993), mathematical analysis *

Ludwig Berwald Ludwig Berwald (8 December 1883 – 20 April 1942) was a German mathematician best known for his contributions to differential geometry, especially Finsler geometry. He taught in Munich and Prague for 32 years, publishing 54 papers, bef ...

(1883–1942), differential geometry * Abram Besicovitch (1891–1970), mathematician (Karaite) * Paul Biran (born 1969), symplectic and algebraic geometry; Erdős Prize (2006) * Joan Birman (born 1927), topology *

Zygmunt Wilhelm Birnbaum Zygmunt Wilhelm Birnbaum (18 October 1903 – 15 December 2000) was a Polish-American mathematician and statistician who contributed to functional analysis, nonparametric testing and estimation, probability inequalities, survival distributions, c ...

(1903–2000), functional analysis and probability *

Max Black Max Black (24 February 1909 – 27 August 1988) was an Azerbaijani-born British-American philosopher who was a leading figure in analytic philosophy in the years after World War II. He made contributions to the philosophy of language, the philo ...

(1909–1988), philosopher of mathematics * André Bloch (1893–1948), complex analysis *

Maurice Block Maurice Block (german: link=no, Moritz Block); 18 February 18169 January 1901) was a German-French statistician and economist. Block was born in Berlin of Jewish parents. He studied at the University of Bonn and the University of Heidelberg and ...

(1816–1901), statistician *

Lenore Blum Lenore Carol Blum (née Epstein, born December 18, 1942) is an American computer scientist and mathematician who has made pioneering contributions to the theories of real number computation, cryptography, and pseudorandom number generation. She ...

(born 1942), mathematician and computer scientist *

Leonard Blumenthal Leonard Mascot Blumenthal (February 27, 1901 – August 1984) was a Jewish American mathematician. He received his Ph.D. in 1927 from Johns Hopkins University, under the supervision of Frank Morley; his dissertation was titled ''Lagrange Re ...

(1901–1984), mathematician * Otto Blumenthal (1876–1944), mathematician *

Harald Bohr Harald August Bohr (22 April 1887 – 22 January 1951) was a Danish mathematician and footballer. After receiving his doctorate in 1910, Bohr became an eminent mathematician, founding the field of almost periodic functions. His brother was the ...

(1887–1951), almost periodic functions * Vladimir Boltyansky (1925–2019), mathematician and educator * Carl Borchardt (1817–1880), mathematical analysis *

Max Born Max Born (; 11 December 1882 – 5 January 1970) was a German physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics and supervised the work of a ...

(1882–1970), physicist and mathematician * Moses Botarel Farissol (15th century), mathematician *

Salomon Bochner Salomon Bochner (20 August 1899 – 2 May 1982) was an Austrian mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis, probability theory and differential geometry. Life He was born into a Jewish family in Podgórze (near Kraków), then ...

(1899–1982), mathematician;

Steele Prize The Leroy P. Steele Prizes are awarded every year by the American Mathematical Society, for distinguished research work and writing in the field of mathematics. Since 1993, there has been a formal division into three categories. The prizes have ...

(1979) *

Hermann Bondi Sir Hermann Bondi (1 November 1919 – 10 September 2005) was an Austrian- British mathematician and cosmologist. He is best known for developing the steady state model of the universe with Fred Hoyle and Thomas Gold as an alternative to the ...

(1919–2005), mathematician * Immanuel Bonfils ( 1300–1377), mathematician and astronomer * Valentina Borok (1931–2004), partial differential equations * David Borwein (1924–2021), mathematician *

Jonathan Borwein Jonathan Michael Borwein (20 May 1951 – 2 August 2016) was a Scottish mathematician who held an appointment as Laureate Professor of mathematics at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He was a close associate of David H. Bailey, and the ...

(1951–2016), mathematician *

Peter Borwein Peter Benjamin Borwein (born St. Andrews, Scotland, May 10, 1953 – 23 August 2020) was a Canadian mathematician and a professor at Simon Fraser University. He is known as a co-author of the paper which presented the Bailey–Borwein–P ...

(1953–2020), mathematician *

Raoul Bott Raoul Bott (September 24, 1923 – December 20, 2005) was a Hungarian-American mathematician known for numerous basic contributions to geometry in its broad sense. He is best known for his Bott periodicity theorem, the Morse–Bott functions whi ...

(1923–2005), geometry; Steele Prize (1990) * Victor Brailovsky (born 1935), mathematician and computer scientist *

Achi Brandt Achiezer Brandt ( he, אחי ברנד; born 1938 in Givat Brenner, today in Israel) is an Israeli mathematician, noted for his pioneering contributions to multigrid methods. Background Achi Brandt earned his Ph.D. degree at the Weizmann Institut ...

(born 1938), numerical analysis * Nikolai Brashman (1796–1866), analytical geometry;

Demidov Prize The Demidov Prize (russian: Демидовская премия) is a national scientific prize in Russia awarded annually to the members of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Originally awarded from 1832 to 1866 in the Russian Empire, it was reviv ...

(1836) *

Alfred Brauer Alfred Theodor Brauer (April 9, 1894 – December 23, 1985) was a German-American mathematician who did work in number theory. He was born in Charlottenburg, and studied at the University of Berlin. As he served Germany in World War I, even b ...

(1894–1985), number theory *

Richard Brauer Richard Dagobert Brauer (February 10, 1901 – April 17, 1977) was a leading German and American mathematician. He worked mainly in abstract algebra, but made important contributions to number theory. He was the founder of modular represent ...

(1901–1977), modular representation theory; Cole Prize (1949) * Haïm Brezis (born 1944), functional analysis and partial differential equations * Selig Brodetsky (1888–1954), mathematician and President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews *

Jacob Bronowski Jacob Bronowski (18 January 1908 – 22 August 1974) was a Polish-British mathematician and philosopher. He was known to friends and professional colleagues alike by the nickname Bruno. He is best known for developing a humanistic approach to sc ...

(1908–1974), mathematician and science educator * Robert Brooks (1952–2002), complex analysis and differential geometry * Felix Browder (1927–2016), nonlinear functional analysis * William Browder (born 1934), topology and differential geometry * Leonid Bunimovich (born 1947), dynamical systems * Leone Burton (1936–2007), mathematics education *

Herbert Busemann Herbert Busemann (12 May 1905 – 3 February 1994) was a German-American mathematician specializing in convex and differential geometry. He is the author of Busemann's theorem in Euclidean geometry and geometric tomography. He was a member ...

(1905–1994), convex and differential geometry

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* Anneli Cahn Lax (1922–1999), mathematician *

Eugenio Calabi Eugenio Calabi (born 11 May 1923) is an Italian-born American mathematician and the Thomas A. Scott Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in differential geometry, partial differential equations and t ...

(born 1923), mathematician; Steele Prize (1991) *

Georg Cantor Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor ( , ; – January 6, 1918) was a German mathematician. He played a pivotal role in the creation of set theory, which has become a fundamental theory in mathematics. Cantor established the importance o ...

(1845–1918), set theorist *

Moritz Cantor Moritz Benedikt Cantor (23 August 1829 – 10 April 1920) was a German historian of mathematics. Biography Cantor was born at Mannheim. He came from a Sephardi Jewish family that had emigrated to the Netherlands from Portugal, another branch o ...

(1829–1920), historian of mathematics *

Sylvain Cappell Sylvain Edward Cappell (born 1946), is a Belgian American mathematician and former student of William Browder at Princeton University, is a topologist who has spent most of his career at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU, wher ...

(born 1946), geometric topology *

Leonard Carlitz Leonard Carlitz (December 26, 1907 – September 17, 1999) was an American mathematician. Carlitz supervised 44 doctorates at Duke University and published over 770 papers. Chronology * 1907 Born Philadelphia, PA, USA * 1927 BA, Universi ...

(1907–1999), number theory and algebra *

Moshe Carmeli Moshe Carmeli ( he, משה כרמלי, links=no, 1933–2007) was the Albert Einstein Professor of Theoretical Physics, Ben Gurion University (BGU), Beer Sheva, Israel and President of the Israel Physical Society. He received his Doctor of ...

(1933–2007), mathematical physics * Emma Castelnuovo (1913–2014), mathematics education * Guido Castelnuovo (1865–1952), mathematician *

Wilhelm Cauer Wilhelm Cauer (24 June 1900 – 22 April 1945) was a German mathematician and scientist. He is most noted for his work on the analysis and synthesis of electrical filters and his work marked the beginning of the field of network synthesis. Prior ...

(1900–1945), mathematician *

Yair Censor Yair Censor (Hebrew: יאיר צנזור, born November 29, 1943) is an Israeli mathematician and a professor at the University of Haifa, specializing in computational mathematics and optimization, as well as applications of these fields, in par ...

(born 1943), computational mathematics and optimization *

Gregory Chaitin Gregory John Chaitin ( ; born 25 June 1947) is an Argentine-American mathematician and computer scientist. Beginning in the late 1960s, Chaitin made contributions to algorithmic information theory and metamathematics, in particular a computer-t ...

(born 1947), algorithmic information theory and metamathematics *

Herman Chernoff Herman Chernoff (born July 1, 1923) is an American applied mathematician, statistician and physicist. He was formerly a professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Stanford, and MIT, currently emeritus at Harvard University. Early l ...

(born 1923), applied mathematics and statistics *

Alexey Chervonenkis Alexey Yakovlevich Chervonenkis (russian: link=no, Алексей Яковлевич Червоненкис; 7 September 1938 – 22 September 2014) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician. Along with Vladimir Vapnik, he was one of the main develop ...

(1938–2014), mathematician and computer scientist * David Chudnovsky (born 1947), mathematician and engineer * Gregory Chudnovsky (born 1952), mathematician and engineer *

Maria Chudnovsky Maria Chudnovsky (born January 6, 1977) is an Israeli-American mathematician working on graph theory and combinatorial optimization. She is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow. Education and career Chudnovsky is a professor in the department of mathematic ...

(born 1977), graph theory and combinatorial optimization * Henri Cohen (born 1947), number theory *

Irvin Cohen Irvin Sol Cohen (1917 – February 14, 1955) was an American mathematician at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who worked on local rings. He was a student of Oscar Zariski at Johns Hopkins University. In his thesis he proved the Co ...

(1917–1955), mathematician * Joel Cohen (born 1944), mathematical biology * Marion Cohen (born 1943), poet and mathematician * Miriam Cohen (born 1941), algebra *

Paul Cohen Paul Joseph Cohen (April 2, 1934 – March 23, 2007) was an American mathematician. He is best known for his proofs that the continuum hypothesis and the axiom of choice are independent from Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory, for which he was award ...

(1934–2007), set theorist;

(1966) *

Ralph Cohen Ralph Louis Cohen (born 1952) is an American mathematician, specializing in algebraic topology and differential topology. Career Cohen received his bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in 1973 and his Ph.D. in 1978 from Brandeis Un ...

(born 1952), algebraic topology and differential topology *

Wim Cohen Jacob Willem "Wim" Cohen (27 August 1923 Leeuwarden – 12 November 2000) was a Dutch mathematician, well known for over hundred scientific publications and several books in queueing theory. Cohen was born in a Jewish family, as the son of B ...

(1923–2000), queueing theory *

Paul Cohn Paul Moritz Cohn FRS (8 January 1924 – 20 April 2006) was Astor Professor of Mathematics at University College London, 1986–1989, and author of many textbooks on algebra. His work was mostly in the area of algebra, especially non-commutat ...

(1924–2006), algebraist * Stephan Cohn-Vossen (1902–1936), differential geometry *

Ronald Coifman Ronald Raphael Coifman is the Sterling professor of Mathematics at Yale University. Coifman earned a doctorate from the University of Geneva in 1965, supervised by Jovan Karamata. Coifman is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, t ...

(born 1941), mathematician * Mordecai Comtino (died 1485), mathematician * Lionel Cooper (1915–1979), mathematician * Leo Corry (born 1956), history of mathematics * Mischa Cotlar (1913–2007), mathematician *

Richard Courant Richard Courant (January 8, 1888 – January 27, 1972) was a German American mathematician. He is best known by the general public for the book '' What is Mathematics?'', co-written with Herbert Robbins. His research focused on the areas of r ...

(1888–1972), mathematical analysis and applied mathematics * Nathan Court (1881–1968), geometer * Michael Creizenach (1789–1842), mathematician and theologian * Luigi Cremona (1830–1903), mathematician * Alexander Crescenzi (17th century), mathematician

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Noah Dana-Picard Noah Dana-Picard (born May 6, 1954) is an Israeli mathematician, professor and Talmudic scholar who has been the president of the Jerusalem College of Technology (JCT) since 2009. Life Born in France, Dana-Picard holds two PhDs; the first from N ...

(born 1954), mathematician *

Henry Daniels Henry Ellis Daniels FRS (2 October 1912 – 16 April 2000) was a British statistician. He was President of the Royal Statistical Society (1974–1975), and was awarded its Guy Medal in Gold in 1984, following a silver medal in 1947. He beca ...

(1912–2000), statistician *

David van Dantzig David van Dantzig (September 23, 1900 – July 22, 1959) was a Dutch mathematician, well known for the construction in topology of the dyadic solenoid. He was a member of the Significs Group. Biography Born to a Jewish family in Amsterdam ...

(1900–1959), topology *

George Dantzig George Bernard Dantzig (; November 8, 1914 – May 13, 2005) was an American mathematical scientist who made contributions to industrial engineering, operations research, computer science, economics, and statistics. Dantzig is known for his ...

(1914–2005), mathematical optimization *

Tobias Dantzig Tobias Dantzig (; February 19, 1884 – August 9, 1956) was an American mathematician, the father of George Dantzig, and the author of '' Number: The Language of Science (A critical survey written for the cultured non-mathematician)'' (1930) and '' ...

(1884–1956), mathematician * Martin Davis (1928–2023), mathematician * Philip Dawid (born 1946), statistics *

Max Dehn Max Wilhelm Dehn (November 13, 1878 – June 27, 1952) was a German mathematician most famous for his work in geometry, topology and geometric group theory. Born to a Jewish family in Germany, Dehn's early life and career took place in Germany. ...

(1878–1952), topology * Percy Deift (born 1945), mathematician; Pólya Prize (1998) * Nissan Deliatitz (19th century), mathematician * Joseph Delmedigo (1591–1655), rabbi and mathematician *

Ely Devons Ely Devons (29 July 1913 – 28 December 1967), an economist and statistician, was born in Bangor, Gwynedd North Wales, lived most of his life in Manchester and died after a long illness at St Thomas Hospital in London. He was survived by his ...

(1913–1967), statistics *

Persi Diaconis Persi Warren Diaconis (; born January 31, 1945) is an American mathematician of Greek descent and former professional magician. He is the Mary V. Sunseri Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at Stanford University. He is particularly kno ...

(born 1945), mathematician and magician * Samuel Dickstein (1851–1939), mathematician and pedagogue *

Nathan Divinsky Nathan Joseph Harry Divinsky (October 29, 1925 – June 17, 2012) was a Canadian mathematician, university professor, chess master, chess writer, and chess official. Divinsky was also known for being the former husband of the 19th prime minister ...

(1925–2012), mathematician *

Roland Dobrushin Roland Lvovich Dobrushin (russian: Рола́нд Льво́вич Добру́шин) (July 20, 1929 – November 12, 1995) was a mathematician who made important contributions to probability theory, mathematical physics, and information theo ...

(1929–1995), probability theory, mathematical physics and information theory * Wolfgang Doeblin (1915–1940), probabilist *

Domninus of Larissa Domninus of Larissa ( el, Δομνῖνος; ) was an ancient Hellenistic Syrian mathematician. Life Domninus of Larissa, Syria was, simultaneously with Proclus, a pupil of Syrianus. Domninus is said to have corrupted the doctrines of Plato b ...

( 420– 480 AD), mathematician *

Jesse Douglas Jesse Douglas (3 July 1897 – 7 September 1965) was an American mathematician and Fields Medalist known for his general solution to Plateau's problem. Life and career He was born to a Jewish family in New York City, the son of Sarah (née ...

(1897–1965), mathematician; Fields Medal (1936), Bôcher Memorial Prize, Bôcher Prize (1943) * Vladimir Drinfeld (born 1954), algebraic geometry; Fields Medal (1990), Wolf Prize (2018) * Louis Israel Dublin (1882–1969), statistician * Aryeh Dvoretzky (1916–2008), functional analysis and probability * Bernard Dwork (1923–1998), mathematician; Cole Prize (1962) * Harry Dym (born 1938), functional and numerical analysis * Eugene Dynkin (1924–2014), probability and algebra; Steele Prize (1993)

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* Abraham Eberlen (16th century), mathematician * Ishak Efendi ( 1774–1835), mathematician and engineer * Bradley Efron (born 1938), statistician * Andrew S. C. Ehrenberg, Andrew Ehrenberg (1926–2010), statistician * Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest, Tatyana Ehrenfest (1905–1984), mathematician * Leon Ehrenpreis (1930–2010), mathematician * Jacob Eichenbaum (1796–1861), poet and mathematician * Samuel Eilenberg (1913–1988), category theory; Wolf Prize (1986), Steele Prize (1987) * Gotthold Eisenstein (1823–1852), mathematician * Yakov Eliashberg (born 1946), symplectic topology and partial differential equations * Jordan Ellenberg (born 1971), arithmetic geometry * Emanuel Lodewijk Elte (1881–1943), mathematician * David Emmanuel (mathematician), David Emmanuel (1854–1941), mathematician * Federigo Enriques (1871–1946), algebraic geometry * Moses Ensheim (1750–1839), mathematician and poet * Bernard Epstein (1920–2005), mathematician and physicist * David B. A. Epstein, David Epstein (born 1937), hyperbolic geometry, 3-manifolds, and group theory * Paul Epstein (1871–1939), number theory * Paul Sophus Epstein, Paul S. Epstein (1883–1966), mathematical physics * Yechiel Michel Epstein (1829–1908), rabbi and mathematician * Arthur Erdélyi (1908–1977), mathematician * Paul Erdős (1913–1996), mathematician; Cole Prize (1951), Wolf Prize (1983/84) * Alex Eskin (born 1965), dynamical systems and group theory * Gregory Eskin (born 1936), partial differential equations * Theodor Estermann (1902–1991), analytic number theory

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* Gino Fano (1871–1952), mathematician * Yehuda Farissol (15th century), mathematician and astronomer * Gyula Farkas (natural scientist), Gyula Farkas (1847–1930), mathematician and physicist * Herbert Federer (1920–2010), geometric measure theory * Solomon Feferman (1928–2016), mathematical logic and philosophy of mathematics * Charles Fefferman (born 1949), mathematician; Fields Medal (1978), Bôcher Prize (2008) * Joan Feigenbaum (born 1958), mathematics and computer science * Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944–2019), chaos theory; Wolf Prize (1986) * Walter Feit (1930–2004), finite group theory and representation theory; Cole Prize (1965) * Lipót Fejér, Leopold Fejér (1880–1959), harmonic analysis * Michael Fekete (1886–1957), mathematician * Jacques Feldbau (1914–1945), mathematician * Joel Feldman (born 1949), mathematical physics * William Feller (1906–1970), probability theory * Käte Fenchel (1905–1983), group theory * Werner Fenchel (1905–1988), geometry and optimization theory * Mordechai Finzi ( 1407–1476), mathematician and astronomer * Ernst Sigismund Fischer (1875–1954), mathematical analysis * Irene Fischer (1907–2009), mathematician and engineer * John Fox (statistician), John Fox (born 1946), statistician * Abraham Fraenkel (1891–1965), set theory * Aviezri Fraenkel (born 1929), combinatorial game theory * Philipp Frank (1884–1966), mathematical physics and philosophy * Péter Frankl (born 1953), combinatorics * Fabian Franklin (1853–1939), mathematician * Michael Freedman (born 1951), mathematician; Fields Medal (1986) * Gregory Freiman (born 1926), additive number theory * Edward Frenkel (born 1968), representation theory, algebraic geometry, and mathematical physics * Hans Freudenthal (1905–1990), algebraic topology * Avner Friedman (born 1932), partial differential equations * Harvey Friedman (born 1948), reverse mathematics * Sy Friedman (born 1953), set theory and recursion theory * David Friesenhausen (1756–1828), mathematician * Uriel Frisch (born 1940), mathematical physics * Albrecht Fröhlich (1916–2001), algebra; De Morgan Medal (1992) * Robert Frucht (1906–1997), graph theory * Guido Fubini (1879–1943), mathematical analysis * László Fuchs (born 1924), group theory * Lazarus Fuchs (1833–1902), linear differential equations * Paul Funk (1886–1969), mathematical analysis * Hillel Furstenberg (born 1935), mathematician; Wolf Prize (2006/07), Abel Prize (2020)

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* David Gabai (born 1954), low-dimensional topology and hyperbolic geometry * Dov Gabbay (born 1945), logician * Ofer Gabber (born 1958), algebraic geometry; Erdős Prize (1981) * Boris Galerkin (1871–1945), mathematician and engineer * Zvi Galil (born 1947), mathematician and computer scientist * David Gans (1541–1613), mathematician * Hilda Geiringer (1893–1973), mathematician * Israel Gelfand (1913–2009), mathematician; Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences, Kyoto Prize (1989), Steele Prize (2005) * Alexander Gelfond (1906–1968), number theory * Semyon Aranovich Gershgorin, Semyon Gershgorin (1901–1933), mathematician * Gersonides (1288–1344), mathematician * Murray Gerstenhaber (born 1927), algebra and mathematical physics * David Gilbarg (1918–2001), mathematician * Jekuthiel Ginsburg (1889–1957), mathematician * Moti Gitik (born 1955), set theory * Samuel Gitler Hammer, Samuel Gitler (1933–2014), mathematician * Alexander Givental (born 1958), symplectic topology and singularity theory * George Glauberman (born 1941), finite simple groups * Israel Gohberg (1928–2009), operator theory and functional analysis * Anatolii Goldberg (1930–2008), complex analysis * Lisa Goldberg (born 1956), statistics and mathematical finance * Dorian M. Goldfeld, Dorian Goldfeld (born 1947), number theory; Cole Prize (1987) * Carl Wolfgang Benjamin Goldschmidt (1807–1851), mathematician * Catherine Goldstein (born 1958), number theory * Sydney Goldstein (1903–1989), mathematical physics * Daniel Goldston (born 1954), number theory; Cole Prize (2014) * Michael Golomb (1909–2008), mathematician * Solomon W. Golomb, Solomon Golomb (1932–2016), mathematical games * Gene H. Golub, Gene Golub (1932–2007), numerical analysis * Marty Golubitsky (born 1945), mathematician * Benjamin Gompertz (1779–1865), mathematician * I. J. Good (1916–2009), mathematician and cryptologist * Paul Gordan (1837–1912), invariant theory * Daniel Gorenstein (1923–1992), group theory * David Gottlieb (mathematician), David Gottlieb (1944–2008), numerical analysis * Dovid Gottlieb, rabbi and mathematician * Ian Grant (physicist), Ian Grant (born 1930), mathematical physics * Harold Grad (1923–1986), applied mathematics * Eugene Grebenik (1919–2001), demographer * Leslie Greengard (born 1958), mathematician and computer scientist * Kurt Grelling (1886–1942), logician * Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov, Mikhail Gromov (born 1943), mathematician; Wolf Prize (1993), Kyoto Prize (2002), Abel Prize (2009) * Benedict Gross (born 1950), number theory; Cole Prize (1987) * Marcel Grossmann (1878–1936), descriptive geometry * Emil Grosswald (1912–1989), number theory * Alexander Grothendieck (1928–2014), algebraic geometry; Fields Medal (1966) * Branko Grünbaum (1929–2018), discrete geometry * Géza Grünwald (1910–1943), mathematician * Heinrich Guggenheimer (1924–2021), mathematician * Paul Guldin (1577–1643), mathematician and astronomer * Emil Julius Gumbel, Emil Gumbel (1891–1966), extreme value theory * Sigmund Gundelfinger (1846–1910), algebraic geometry * Larry Guth (born 1977), mathematician * Louis Guttman (1916–1987), mathematician and sociologist

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* Alfréd Haar (1885–1933), mathematician * Steven Haberman (born 1951), statistician and actuarial scientist *Jacques Hadamard (1865–1963), mathematician * Hans Hahn (mathematician), Hans Hahn (1879–1934), mathematical analysis and topology * John Hajnal (1924–2008), statistics * Heini Halberstam (1926–2014), number theory * Paul Halmos (1916–2006), mathemematician; Steele Prize (1983) * Israel Halperin (1911–2007), mathematician * Georges Henri Halphen, Georges-Henri Halphen (1844–1889), geometer * Hans Hamburger (1889–1956), mathematician * Haim Hanani (1912–1991), combinatorial design theory * Frank Harary (1921–2005), graph theory * David Harbater (born 1952), Galois theory, algebraic geometry and arithmetic geometry; Cole Prize (1995) * David Harel (born 1950), mathematician and computer scientist * Sergiu Hart (born 1949), mathematician and economist * Ami Harten (1946–1994), applied mathematics * Numa Edward Hartog, Numa Hartog (1846–1871), mathematician * Friedrich Hartogs (1874–1943), set theory and several complex variables * Helmut Hasse (1898–1979), algebraic number theory * Herbert A. Hauptman, Herbert Hauptman (1917–2011), mathematician; Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1985) * Felix Hausdorff (1868–1942), topology * Louise Hay (mathematician), Louise Hay (1935–1989), computability theory * Walter Hayman (1926–2020), complex analysis * Hans Heilbronn (1908–1975), mathematician * Ernst Hellinger (1883–1950), mathematician * Eduard Helly (1884–1943), mathematician * Dagmar R. Henney, Dagmar Henney (born 1931), mathematician * Kurt Hensel (1861–1941), mathematician * Reuben Hersh (1927–2020), mathematics and philosopher of mathematics * Daniel Hershkowitz (born 1953), mathematician and politician * Israel Nathan Herstein, Israel Herstein (1923–1988), algebra * Maximilian Herzberger (1899–1982), mathematician and physicist * Emil Hilb (1882–1929), mathematician * Peter Hilton (1923–2010), homotopy theory * Edith Hirsch Luchins (1921–2002), mathematician * Kurt Hirsch (1906–1986), group theory * Morris Hirsch (born 1933), mathematician * Elias Höchheimer (18th century), mathematician and astronomer * Gerhard Hochschild (1915–2010), mathematician; Steele Prize (1980) * Melvin Hochster (born 1943), commutative algebra; Cole Prize (1980) * Douglas Hofstadter (born 1945), recreational mathematics * Chaim Samuel Hönig (1926–2018), functional analysis * Heinz Hopf (1894–1971), topology * Ludwig Hopf (1884–1939), mathematician and physicist * Janina Hosiasson-Lindenbaum (1899–1942), logician and philosopher * Isaac Hourwich (1860–1924), statistician * Ehud Hrushovski (born 1959), mathematical logic; Erdős Prize (1994) * Witold Hurewicz (1904–1956), mathematician * Adolf Hurwitz (1859–1919), function theory * Wallie Abraham Hurwitz (1886–1958), mathematical analysis

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* Isaac ibn al-Ahdab (1350–1430), mathematician, astronomer and poet * Sind ibn Ali (9th century), mathematician and astronomer * Mashallah ibn Athari ( 740–815), mathematician and astrologer * Sahl ibn Bishr ( 786– 845), mathematician * Abraham ibn Ezra ( 1089– 1167), mathematician and astronomer * Abu al-Fadl ibn Hasdai (11th century), mathematician and philosopher * Bashar ibn Shu'aib (10th century), mathematician * Issachar ben Mordecai ibn Susan, Issachar ibn Susan ( 1539–1572), mathematician * Jacob ben Machir ibn Tibbon, Jacob ibn Tibbon (1236–1305), mathematician and astronomer * Moses ibn Tibbon ( 1240–1283), mathematician and translator * Judah ibn Verga (15th century), mathematician, astronomer and kabbalist * Arieh Iserles (born 1947), computational mathematics * Isaac Israeli ben Joseph, Isaac Israeli (14th century), astronomer and mathematician * Israel Joffe (born 1979), Harvard IT graduate and Mathematician

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* Eri Jabotinsky (1910–1969), mathematician, politician and activist * Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804–1851), analysis; first Jewish mathematician to be appointed professor at a German university * Nathan Jacobson (1910–1999), algebra; Steele Prize (1998) * Ernst Jacobsthal (1882–1965), number theory * E. Morton Jellinek (1890–1963), biostatistics * Svetlana Jitomirskaya (born 1966), dynamical systems and mathematical physics * Ferdinand Joachimsthal (1818–1861), mathematician * Fritz John (1910–1994), partial differential equations; Steele Prize (1982) * Joseph of Spain (9th and 10th centuries), mathematician * Sir Roger Jowell (1942–2011), social statistics

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* Mark Kac (1914–1984), probability theory * Victor Kac (born 1943), representation theory; Steele Prize (2015) * Mikhail Kadets (1923–2011), mathematical analysis * Richard Kadison (1925–2018), mathematician; Steele Prize (1999) * Veniamin Kagan (1869–1953), mathematician * William Kahan (born 1933), mathematician and computer scientist; Turing Award (1989) * Jean-Pierre Kahane (1926–2017), harmonic analysis * Franz Daniel Kahn, Franz Kahn (1926–1998), mathematician and astrophysicist * Margarete Kahn (1880–1942?), topology * Gil Kalai (born 1955), mathematician; Pólya Prize (1992), Erdős Prize (1992) * László Kalmár (1905–1976), mathematical logic * Shoshana Kamin (born 1930), partial differential equations * Daniel Kan (1927–2013), homotopy theory * Leonid Kantorovich (1912–1986), mathematician and economist; Nobel Prize in Economics (1975) * Irving Kaplansky (1917–2006), mathematician * Samuel Karlin (1924–2007), mathematician * Theodore von Kármán (1881–1963), mathematical physics * Edward Kasner (1878–1955), differential geometry * Svetlana Katok (born 1947), mathematician * Eric Katz (born 1977), combinatorial algebraic geometry and arithmetic geometry * Mikhail Katz (born 1958), differential geometry and geometric topology * Nets Katz (born 1972), combinatorics and harmonic analysis * Nick Katz (born 1943), algebraic geometry * Sheldon Katz (born 1956), algebraic geometry * Victor J. Katz, Victor Katz (born 1942), algebra and history of mathematics * Yitzhak Katznelson (born 1934), mathematician * Bruria Kaufman (1918–2010), mathematician and physicist * David Kazhdan (born 1946), representation theory * Herbert Keller (1925–2008), applied mathematics and numerical analysis * Joseph Keller (1923–2016), applied mathematician; National Medal of Science (1988), Wolf Prize (1997) * John G. Kemeny, John Kemeny (1926–1992), mathematician and computer scientist * Carlos Kenig (born 1953), harmonic analysis and partial differential equations; Bôcher Prize (2008) * Harry Kesten (1931–2019), probability; Pólya Prize (1994), Steele Prize (2001) * Aleksandr Khinchin (1894–1959), probability theory * David Khorol (1920–1990), mathematician * Mojżesz David Kirszbraun, Mojżesz Kirszbraun (1903–1942), mathematical analysis * Sergiu Klainerman (born 1950), hyperbolic differential equations; Bôcher Prize (1999) * Boáz Klartag (born 1978), asymptotic geometric analysis; Erdős Prize (2010) * Morris Kline (1908–1992), mathematician * Lipót Klug (1854–1945), mathematician * Hermann Kober (1888–1973), mathematical analysis * Simon B. Kochen, Simon Kochen (born 1934), model theory and number theory; Cole Prize (1967) * Joseph J. Kohn, Joseph Kohn (born 1932), partial differential operators and complex analysis * Ernst Kolman (1892–1972), philosophy of mathematics * Dénes Kőnig (1884–1944), graph theorist * Gyula Kőnig (1849–1913), mathematician * Leo Königsberger (1837–1921), historian of mathematics * Arthur Korn (1870–1945), mathematician and inventor * Thomas William Körner, Thomas Körner (born 1946), mathematician * Stephan Körner (1913–2000), philosophy of mathematics * Bertram Kostant (1928–2017), mathematician * Edna Kramer (1902–1984), mathematician * Mark Krasnosel'skii (1920–1997), nonlinear functional analysis * Mark Krein (1907–1989), functional analysis; Wolf Prize (1982) * Cecilia Krieger (1894–1974), mathematician * Georg Kreisel (1923–2015), mathematical logic * Maurice Kraitchik (1882–1957), number theory and recreational mathematics * Leopold Kronecker (1823–1891), number theory * Joseph Kruskal (1928–2010), graph theory and statistics * Martin David Kruskal, Martin Kruskal (1925–2006), mathematician and physicist * William Kruskal (1919–2005), non-parametric statistics * Kazimierz Kuratowski (1896–1980), mathematics and logic * Simon Kuznets (1901–1985), statistician and economist; Nobel Prize in Economics (1971)

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* Imre Lakatos (1922–1974), philosopher of mathematics * Dan Laksov (1940–2013), algebraic geometry * Cornelius Lanczos (1893–1974), mathematician and physicist * Edmund Landau (1877–1938), number theory and complex analysis * Georg Landsberg (1865–1912), complex analysis and algebraic geometry * Serge Lang (1927–2005), number theory; Cole Prize (1960) * Emanuel Lasker (1868–1941), mathematician and chess player * Albert Lautman (1908–1944), philosophy of mathematics * Ruth Lawrence (born 1971), knot theory and algebraic topology * Peter Lax (born 1926), mathematician; Wolf Prize (1987), Steele Prize (1993), Abel Prize (2005) * Joel Lebowitz (born 1930), mathematical physics * Gilah Leder (born 1941), mathematics education * Walter Ledermann (1911–2009), algebra * Solomon Lefschetz (1884–1972), algebraic topology and ordinary differential equations; Bôcher Prize (1924) * Emma Lehmer (1906–2007), algebraic number theory * Moses Lemans (1785–1832), mathematician * Alexander Lerner (1913–2004), applied mathematics * Arthur Levenson (1914–2007), mathematician and cryptographer * Beppo Levi (1875–1961), mathematician * Eugenio Elia Levi, Eugenio Levi (1883–1917), mathematician * Friedrich Wilhelm Levi, Friedrich Levi (1888–1966), algebra * Leone Levi (1821–1888), statistician * Raphael Levi Hannover (1685–1779), mathematician and astronomer * Tullio Levi-Civita (1873–1941), tensor calculus * Dany Leviatan (born 1942), approximation theory * Boris Levin (1906–1993), function theory * Leonid Levin (born 1948), foundations of mathematics and computer science * Norman Levinson (1912–1975), mathematician; Bôcher Prize (1953) * Boris Levitan (1914–2004), almost periodic functions * Jacob Levitzki (1904–1956), mathematician * Armand Lévy (mineralogist), Armand Lévy (1795–1841), mathematician * Azriel Lévy (born 1934), mathematical logic * Hyman Levy (1889–1975), mathematician * Paul Lévy (mathematician), Paul Lévy (1886–1971), probability theory * Tony Lévy (born 1943), history of mathematics * Hans Lewy (1904–1988), mathematician; Wolf Prize (1986) * Gabriel Judah Lichtenfeld (1811–1887), mathematician * Leon Lichtenstein (1878–1933), differential equations, conformal mapping, and potential theory * Paulette Libermann (1919–2007), differential geometry * Elliott H. Lieb, Elliott Lieb (born 1932), mathematical physics * Lillian Rosanoff Lieber, Lillian Lieber (1886–1986), mathematician and popular author * Heinrich Liebmann (1874–1939), differential geometry * Michael Lin (mathematician), Michael Lin (born 1942), Markov chains and ergodic theory * Baruch Lindau (1759–1849), mathematician and science writer * Adolf Lindenbaum (1904–1942), mathematical logic * Elon Lindenstrauss (born 1970), mathematician; Erdős Prize (2009), Fields Medal (2010) * Joram Lindenstrauss (1936–2012), mathematician * Yom Tov Lipman Lipkin (1846–1876), mathematician * Rudolf Lipschitz (1832–1903), mathematical analysis and differential geometry * Rehuel Lobatto (1797–1866), mathematician * Michel Loève (1907–1979), probability theory * Charles Loewner (1893–1968), mathematician * Alfred Loewy (1873–1935), representation theory * Gino Loria (1862–1954), mathematician and historian of mathematics * Leopold Löwenheim (1878–1957), mathematical logic * Baruch Solomon Löwenstein (19th century), mathematician * Alexander Lubotzky (born 1956), mathematician and politician; Erdős Prize (1990) * Eugene Lukacs (1906–1987), statistician * Yudell Luke (1918–1983), function theory * Jacob Lurie (born 1977), mathematician; Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, Breakthrough Prize (2014) * George Lusztig (born 1946), mathematician; Cole Prize (1985), Steele Prize (2008) * Israel Lyons (1739–1775), mathematician * Lazar Lyusternik (1899–1981), topology and differential geometry

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* Myrtil Maas (1792–1865), mathematician * Moshé Machover (born 1936), mathematician, philosopher and activist * Menachem Magidor (born 1946), set theory * Ludwig Immanuel Magnus (1790–1861), geometer * Kurt Mahler (1903–1988), mathematician; De Morgan Medal (1971) * Yuri Manin (born 1937), algebraic geometry and diophantine geometry * Henry Mann (1905–2000), number theory and statistics; Cole Prize (1946) * Amédée Mannheim (1831–1906), mathematician and inventor of the slide rule * Eli Maor (born 1937), history of mathematics * Solomon Marcus (1925–2016), mathematical analysis, mathematical linguistics and computer science * Szolem Mandelbrojt (1899–1983), mathematical analysis * Benoit Mandelbrot (1924–2010), mathematician; Wolf Prize (1993) * Grigory Margulis (born 1946), mathematician; Fields Medal (1978), Wolf Prize (2005), Abel Prize (2020) * Edward Marczewski (1907–1976), mathematician * Michael Maschler (1927–2008), game theory * Walther Mayer (1887–1948), mathematician * Barry Mazur (born 1937), mathematician; Cole Prize (1982) * Vladimir Mazya (born 1937), mathematical analysis and partial differential equations * Naum Meiman (1912–2001), complex analysis, partial differential equations, and mathematical physics * Nathan Mendelsohn (1917–2006), discrete mathematics * Karl Menger (1902–1985), mathematician * Abraham Joseph Menz (18th century), mathematician and rabbi * Yves Meyer (born 1939), mathematician; Abel Prize (2017) * Ernest Michael (1925–2013), general topology * Solomon Mikhlin (1908–1990), mathematician * David Milman (1912–1982), functional analysis * Pierre Milman (born 1945), mathematician * Vitali Milman (born 1939), mathematical analysis * Hermann Minkowski (1864–1909), number theory *Richard von Mises (1883–1953), mathematician and engineer * Elijah Mizrachi ( 1455– 1525), mathematician and rabbi * Boris Moishezon (1937–1993), mathematician * Louis J. Mordell, Louis Mordell (1888–1972), number theory * Claus Moser, Baron Moser, Claus Moser (1922–2015), statistics * George Mostow (1923–2017), mathematician; Wolf Prize (2013) * Andrzej Mostowski (1913–1975), set theory * Simon Motot (15th century), algebra * Theodore Motzkin (1908–1970), mathematician * José Enrique Moyal (1910–1998), mathematical physics * Herman Müntz (1884–1956), mathematician

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* Leopoldo Nachbin (1922–1993), topology and harmonic analysis * Assaf Naor (born 1975), metric spaces; Bôcher Prize (1999) * Isidor Natanson (1906–1964), real analysis and constructive function theory * Melvyn B. Nathanson, Melvyn Nathanson (born 1944), number theory * Caryn Navy (born 1953), set-theoretic topology * Mark Naimark (1909–1978), functional analysis and mathematical physics * Zeev Nehari (1915–1978), mathematical analysis * Rabbi Nehemiah ( 150), mathematician * Leonard Nelson (1882–1927), mathematician and philosopher * Paul Nemenyi (1895–1952), mathematician and physicist * Peter Nemenyi (1927–2002), mathematician * Abraham Nemeth (1918–2013), mathematician and creator of Nemeth Braille * Arkadi Nemirovski (born 1947), optimization * Elisha Netanyahu (1912–1986), complex analysis * Bernhard Neumann (1909–2003), group theory *John von Neumann (1903–1957), set theory, physics and computer science; Bôcher Prize (1938) * Hanna Neumann (1914–1971), group theory * Klara Dan von Neumann, Klára Dán von Neumann (1911–1963), mathematician and computer scientist * Nelli Neumann (1886–1942), synthetic geometry * Max Newman (1897–1984), mathematician and codebreaker; De Morgan Medal (1962) * Abraham Niederländer (16th century), mathematician and scribe * Louis Nirenberg (1925–2020), mathematical analysis; Bôcher Prize (1959), Steele Prize (1994), Chern Medal (2010), Abel Prize (2015) * Emmy Noether (1882–1935), algebra and theoretical physics * Fritz Noether (1884–1941), mathematician * Max Noether (1844–1921), algebraic geometry and algebraic functions * Simon P. Norton, Simon Norton (1952–2019), group theory * Pedro Nunes (1502–1578), mathematician and cosmographer * A. Edward Nussbaum (1925–2009), mathematician and theoretical physicist

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* David Oppenheim (rabbi), David Oppenheim (1664–1736), rabbi and mathematician * Menachem Oren (1903–1962), mathematician and chess master * Donald Samuel Ornstein, Donald Ornstein (born 1934), ergodic theory; Bôcher Prize (1974) * Mollie Orshansky (1915–2006), statistics * Steven Orszag (1943–2011), applied mathematics * Stanley Osher (born 1942), applied mathematics * Robert Osserman (1926–2011), geometry * Alexander Ostrowski (1893–1986), mathematician * Jacques Ozanam (1640–1718), mathematician

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* Alessandro Padoa (1868–1937), mathematician and logician * Emanuel Parzen (1929–2016), statistician * Seymour Papert (1928–2016), mathematician and computer scientist * Moritz Pasch (1843–1930), foundations of geometry * Chaim L. Pekeris, Chaim Pekeris (1908–1992), mathematician and physicist * Daniel Pedoe (1910–1998), geometry * Rudolf Peierls (1907–1995), physics and applied mathematics; Copley Medal (1996) * Rose Peltesohn (1913–1998), combinatorics * Grigori Perelman (born 1966), mathematician; Fields Medal (2006, declined), Millennium Prize (2010) * Yakov Perelman (1882–1942), recreational mathematics * Micha Perles (born 1936), graph theory and discrete geometry * Leo Perutz (1882–1957), mathematician and novelist * Rózsa Péter (1905–1977), recursion theory * Ralph S. Phillips, Ralph Phillips (1913–1998), functional analysis; Steele Prize (1997) * Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro (1929–2009), mathematician; Wolf Prize (1990) * Georg Alexander Pick, Georg Pick (1859–1942), mathematician * Salvatore Pincherle (1853–1936), functional analysis * Abraham Plessner (1900–1961), functional analysis * Felix Pollaczek (1892–1981), number theory, mathematical analysis, mathematical physics and probability theory * Harriet Pollatsek (born 1942), mathematician * Leonid Polterovich (born 1963), symplectic geometry and dynamical systems; Erdős Prize (1998) * George Pólya (1887–1985), combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability * Carl Pomerance (born 1944), number theory * Alfred van der Poorten (1942–2010), number theory * Emil Leon Post, Emil Post (1897–1954), mathematician and logician * Mojżesz Presburger (1904– 1943), mathematician and logician * Vera Pless (1931–2020), combinatorics * Ilya Prigogine (1917–2003), statistician and chemist; Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1977) * Alfred Pringsheim (1850–1941), analysis, theory of functions * Moshe Provençal (1503–1576) mathematician, posek and grammarian * Heinz Prüfer (1896–1934), mathematician * Hilary Putnam (1926–2016), philosophy of mathematics

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* Michael O. Rabin, Michael Rabin (born 1931), mathematical logic and computer science; Turing Award (1976) * Philip Rabinowitz (mathematician), Philip Rabinowitz (1926–2006), numerical analysis * Giulio Racah (1909–1965), mathematician and physicist * Richard Rado (1906–1989), mathematician * Aleksander Rajchman (1890–1940), measure theory * Rose Rand (1903–1980), logician and philosopher * Joseph Raphson ( 1648– 1715), mathematician * Anatol Rapoport (1911–2007), applied mathematics * Marina Ratner (1938–2017), ergodic theory * Yitzchak Ratner (1857–?), mathematician * Amitai Regev (born 1940), ring theory * Isaac Samuel Reggio (1784–1855), mathematician and rabbi * Hans Reissner (1874–1967), mathematical physics * Robert Remak (mathematician), Robert Remak (1888–1942), algebra and mathematical economics * Evgeny Yakovlevich Remez, Evgeny Remez (1895–1975), constructive function theory * Alfréd Rényi (1921–1970), combinatorics, number theory and probability * Ida Rhodes (1900–1986), mathematician * Paulo Ribenboim (born 1928), number theory * Ken Ribet (born 1948), algebraic number theory and algebraic geometry * Frigyes Riesz (1880–1956), functional analysis * Marcel Riesz (1886–1969), mathematician * Eliyahu Rips (born 1948), geometric group theory; Erdős Prize(1979) * Joseph Ritt (1893–1951), differential algebra * Igor Rivin (born 1961), hyperbolic geometry, topology, group theory, experimental mathematics. * Abraham Robinson (1918–1974), nonstandard analysis * Olinde Rodrigues (1795–1851), mathematician and social reformer * Werner Wolfgang Rogosinski, Werner Rogosinski (1894–1964), mathematician * Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, Vladimir Rokhlin (1919–1984), mathematician * Werner Romberg (1909–2003), mathematician and physicist * Jakob Rosanes (1842–1922), algebraic geometry and invariant theory * Johann Georg Rosenhain, Johann Rosenhain (1816–1887), mathematician * Louis Rosenhead (1906–1984), applied mathematics * Maxwell Rosenlicht (1924–1999), algebra; Cole Prize (1960) * Arthur Rosenthal (1887–1959), mathematician * Klaus Roth (1925–2015), diophantine approximation; Fields Medal (1958) * Leonard Roth (1904–1968), algebraic geometry * Uriel Rothblum (1947–2012), mathematician and operations researcher * Bruce Lee Rothschild, Bruce Rothschild (born 1941), combinatorics; Pólya Prize (1971) * Linda Preiss Rothschild (born 1945), mathematician * Arthur Rubin (born 1956), mathematician and aerospace engineer * Karl Rubin (born 1956), elliptic curves; Cole Prize (1992) * Reuven Rubinstein (1938–2012), probability theory and statistics * Walter Rudin (1921–2010), mathematical analysis * Zeev Rudnick (born 1961), number theory and mathematical physics; Erdős Prize (2001)

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* Saadia Gaon (882 or 892–942), rabbi, philosopher and mathematician * Louis Saalschütz (1835–1913), number theory and mathematical analysis * Cora Sadosky (1940–2010), mathematical analysis * Manuel Sadosky (1914–2005), mathematician and computer scientist * Philip Saffman (1931–2008), applied mathematics * Stanisław Saks (1897–1942), measure theory * Raphaël Salem (1898–1963), mathematician * Hans Samelson (1916–2005), differential geometry, topology, Lie groups and Lie algebras * Ester Samuel-Cahn (1933–2015), statistician * Peter Sarnak (born 1953), analytic number theory; Pólya Prize (1998), Cole Prize (2005), Wolf Prize (2014) * Leonard Jimmie Savage (1917–1971), mathematician and statistician * Shlomo Sawilowsky (1954–2021), statistician * Hermann Schapira (1840–1898), mathematician * Mary Schaps, Malka Schaps (born 1948), mathematician * Michelle Schatzman (1949–2010), applied mathematics * Robert Schatten (1911–1977), functional analysis * Juliusz Schauder (1899–1943), functional analysis and partial differential equations * Menahem Max Schiffer (1911–1997), complex analysis, partial differential equations, and mathematical physics * Ludwig Schlesinger (1864–1933), mathematician * Lev Schnirelmann (1905–1938), calculus of variations, topology and number theory * Isaac Jacob Schoenberg, Isaac Schoenberg (1903–1990), mathematician * Arthur Moritz Schoenflies, Arthur Schoenflies (1853–1928), mathematician * Moses Schönfinkel (1889–1942), combinatory logic * Oded Schramm (1961–2008), conformal field theory and probability theory; Erdős Prize (1996), Pólya Prize (2006) * Józef Schreier (1909–1943), functional analysis, group theory and combinatorics * Otto Schreier (1901–1929), group theory * Issai Schur (1875–1941), group representations, combinatorics and number theory * Arthur Schuster (1851–1934), applied mathematics; Copley Medal (1931) * Albert Schwarz (born 1934), differential topology * Karl Schwarzschild (1873–1916), mathematical physics * Jacob T. Schwartz, Jacob Schwartz (1930–2009), mathematician * Laurent Schwartz (1915–2002), mathematician; Fields Medal (1950) * Marie-Hélène Schwartz (1913–2013), mathematician * Richard H. Schwartz, Richard Schwartz (born 1934), mathematician and activist * Irving Segal (1918–1998), functional and harmonic analysis * Lee Segel (1932–2005), applied mathematics * Beniamino Segre (1903–1977), algebraic geometry * Corrado Segre (1863–1924), algebraic geometry * Wladimir Seidel (1907–1981), mathematician * Esther Seiden (1908–2014), statistics * Abraham Seidenberg (1916–1988), algebra * Gary Seitz (born 1943), group theory * Zlil Sela (born 1962), geometric group theory; Erdős Prize (2003) * Reinhard Selten (1930–2016), mathematician and game theorist; Nobel Prize in Economics (1994) * Valery Senderov (1945–2014), mathematician * Aner Shalev (born 1958), group theory * Jeffrey Shallit (born 1957), number theory and computer science * Adi Shamir (born 1952), mathematician and cryptographer; Erdős Prize (1983) * Eli Shamir (born 1934), mathematician and computer scientist * Harold S. Shapiro, Harold Shapiro (1928–2021), approximation theory and functional analysis * Samuil Shatunovsky (1859–1929), mathematical analysis and algebra * Henry M. Sheffer, Henry Sheffer (1882–1964), logician * Saharon Shelah (born 1945), mathematician; Erdős Prize (1977), Pólya Prize (1992), Wolf Prize (2001) * James Alexander Shohat, James Shohat (1886–1944), mathematical analysis * Naum Z. Shor, Naum Shor (1937–2006), optimization * William James Sidis, William Sidis (1898–1944), mathematician and child prodigy * Barry Simon (born 1946), mathematical physicist; Steele Prize (2016) * Leon Simon (born 1945), mathematician; Bôcher Prize (1994) * Max Simon (mathematician), Max Simon (1844–1918), history of mathematics * James Harris Simons, James Simons (born 1938), mathematician and hedge fund manager * Yakov Sinai (born 1935), dynamical systems; Wolf Prize (1997), Steele Prize (2013), Abel Prize (2014) * Isadore Singer (1924–2021), mathematician; Bôcher Prize (1969), Steele Prize (2000), Abel Prize (2004) * Abraham Sinkov (1907–1998), mathematician and cryptanalyst * Hayyim Selig Slonimski (1810–1904), mathematician and astronomer; Demidov Prize (1844) * Raymond Smullyan (1919–2017), mathematician and philosopher * Alan Sokal (born 1955), combinatorics and mathematical physics * Robert M. Solovay, Robert Solovay (born 1938), set theory * David Spiegelhalter (born 1953), statistician * Daniel Spielman (born 1970), applied mathematics and computer science; Pólya Prize (2014) * Frank Spitzer (1996–1992), probability theory * Guido Stampacchia (1922–1978), mathematician * Elias M. Stein, Elias Stein (1931–2018), harmonic analysis; Wolf Prize (1999), Steele Prize (2002) * Robert Steinberg (1922–2014), mathematician * Mark Steiner (1942–2020), philosophy of mathematics * Hugo Steinhaus (1887–1972), mathematician * Ernst Steinitz (1871–1928), algebra * Moritz Steinschneider (1816–1907), history of mathematics * Abraham Stern (inventor), Abraham Stern ( 1762–1842), mathematician and inventor * Moritz Abraham Stern (1807–1894), first Jewish full professor at a German university * Shlomo Sternberg (born 1936), mathematician * Reinhold Strassmann (1893–1944), mathematician * Ernst G. Straus, Ernst Straus (1922–1983), analytic number theory, graph theory and combinatorics * Steven Strogatz (born 1959), nonlinear systems and applied mathematics * Daniel W. Stroock, Daniel Stroock (born 1940), probability theory * Eduard Study (1862–1930), invariant theory and geometry * Bella Subbotovskaya (1938–1982), mathematician and founder of the Jewish People's University * Benny Sudakov (born 1969), combinatorics * James Joseph Sylvester (1814–1897), mathematician; Copley Medal (1880), De Morgan Medal (1887) * Otto Szász (1884–1952), real analysis * Gábor Szegő (1895–1985), mathematical analysis * Esther Szekeres (1910–2005), mathematician * George Szekeres (1911–2005), mathematician * Peter Szūsz (1924–2008), number theory

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* Dov Tamari (1911–2006), logic and combinatorics * Jacob Tamarkin (1888–1945), mathematical analysis * Éva Tardos (born 1957), mathematician and computer scientist * Alfred Tarski (1901–1983), logician, mathematician, and philosopher * Alfred Tauber (1866–1942), mathematical analysis * Olga Taussky-Todd, Olga Taussky (1906–1995), algebraic number theory and algebra * Olry Terquem (1782–1862), mathematician * Otto Toeplitz (1881–1940), linear algebra and functional analysis * Jakow Trachtenberg (1888–1953), mathematician and mental calculator * Avraham Trahtman (born 1944), combinatorics * Boris Trakhtenbrot (1921–2016), mathematical logic * Boaz Tsaban (born 1973), set theory and nonabelian cryptology * Jacob Tsimerman (born 1988), number theory * Boris Tsirelson (1950–2020), probability theory and functional analysis * Pál Turán (1910–1976), number theory * Eli Turkel (born 1944), applied mathematics * Stanislaw Ulam (1909–1984), mathematician * Fritz Ursell (1923–2012), mathematician * Pavel Urysohn (1898–1924), dimension theory and topology

V

*Vladimir Vapnik (born 1936), mathematician and computer scientist * Moshe Vardi (born 1954), mathematical logic and theoretical computer science * Andrew Vázsonyi (1916–2003), mathematician and operations researcher * Anatoly Vershik (born 1933), mathematician * Naum Ya. Vilenkin, Naum Vilenkin (1920–1991), combinatorics * Vilna Gaon (1720–1797), Talmudist and mathematician * Giulio Vivanti (1859–1949), mathematician * Aizik Volpert (1923–2006), mathematician and chemical engineer *Vito Volterra (1860–1940), functional analysis * Vladimir Vranić (1896–1976), probability and statistics

W

* Friedrich Waismann (1896–1950), mathematician and philosopher * Abraham Wald (1902–1950), decision theory, geometry and econometrics * Henri Wald (1920–2002), logician * Arnold Walfisz (1892–1962), analytic number theory * Stefan E. Warschawski, Stefan Warschawski (1904–1989), mathematician * Wolfgang R. Wasow, Wolfgang Wasow (1909–1993), singular perturbation theory * André Weil (1906–1998), number theory and algebraic geometry; Wolf Prize (1979), Steele Prize (1980), Kyoto Prize (1994) * Shmuel Weinberger (born 1963), topology * Alexander Weinstein (1897–1979), applied mathematics *Eric Weinstein (born 1965), mathematical physics * Boris Weisfeiler (1942–1985?), algebraic geometry * Benjamin Weiss (born 1941), mathematician * Wendelin Werner (born 1968), probability theory and mathematical physics; Pólya Prize (2006), Fields Medal (2006) * Eléna Wexler-Kreindler (1931–1992), algebra * Harold Widom (1932–2021), operator theory and random matrices; Pólya Prize (2002) * Norbert Wiener (1894–1964), mathematician; Bôcher Prize (1933) * Avi Wigderson (born 1956), mathematician and computer scientist, Abel Prize (2021) * Eugene Wigner (1902–1995), mathematician and theoretical physicist; Nobel Prize in Physics (1963) * Ernest Julius Wilczynski (1876–1932), geometer * Herbert Wilf (1931–2012), combinatorics and graph theory * Aurel Wintner (1903–1958), mathematician * Daniel Wise (mathematician), Daniel Wise (born 1971), geometric group theory and 3-manifolds * Edward Witten (born 1951), mathematical physics; Fields Medal (1990), Kyoto Prize (2014) * Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), logic and philosophy of mathematics * Julius Wolff (mathematician), Julius Wolff (1882–1945), mathematician * Jacob Wolfowitz (1910–1981), statistics * Paul Wolfskehl (1856–1906), mathematician * Mario Wschebor (1939–2011), probability and statistics

X–Z

* Mordecai Yoffe ( 1530–1612), rabbi and mathematician * Akiva Yaglom (1921–2007), probability and statistics * Isaak Yaglom (1921–1988), mathematician * Sofya Yanovskaya (1896–1966), logic and history of mathematics * Adolph P. Yushkevich, Adolph Yushkevich (1906–1993), history of mathematics * Abraham Zacuto (1452– 1515), mathematician and astronomer * Lotfi A. Zadeh, Lotfi Zadeh (1921–2017), fuzzy mathematics * Pedro E. Zadunaisky, Pedro Zadunaisky (1917–2009), mathematician and astronomer * Don Zagier (born 1951), number theory; Cole Prize (1987) * Elijah ben Moses Gershon Zahalon, Elijah Zahalon (18th century), mathematician and Talmudist * Zygmunt Zalcwasser (1898–1943), mathematician * Victor Zalgaller (1920–2020), geometry and optimization * Israel Zamosz ( 1700–1772), Talmudist and mathematician * Oscar Zariski (1899–1986), algebraic geometer; Cole Prize (1944), Wolf Prize (1981), Steele Prize (1981) * Edouard Zeckendorf (1901–1983), number theory * Doron Zeilberger (born 1950), combinatorics * Efim Zelmanov (born 1955), mathematician; Fields Medal (1994) * Tamar Ziegler (born 1971), ergodic theory and arithmetic combinatorics; Erdős Prize (2011) * Leo Zippin (1905–1995), solved Hilbert's fifth problem * Abraham Ziv (1940–2013), number theory * Benedict Zuckermann (1818–1891), mathematician and historian * Moses Zuriel (16th century), mathematician

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