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List of Jewish mathematicians

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This list of Jewish mathematicians 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.

Contents

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  • Abraham Adrian Albert, mathematician
  • Abraham Manie Adelstein, statistician
  • Kenneth Appel, mathematician
  • Robert Aumann, mathematician game theory; Nobel Prize in Economics (2005)
  • Vladimir Arnold, mathematician
  • Hertha Ayrton, mathematician and engineer
  • Laurence Baxter, statistician
  • Felix Bernstein, set theory[3]
  • Abram Besicovitch [4], Russian-born British mathematician (Karaite)
  • Maurice Block (1816–1901) statistician
  • Richard Brauer, modular representation theory[5]
  • Haïm Brezis, functional analysis and partial differential equations
  • Selig Brodetsky, 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
  • Paul Cohn, algebraist
  • Richard Courant, mathematical analysis & applied mathematics[7]
  • H.E. Daniels, statistician
  • Philip Dawid [8], statistician
  • Max Dehn, topology[9]
  • Federigo Enriques, algebraic geometer
  • Paul Epstein, number theory[10]
  • Arthur Erdelyi, mathematician
  • Paul Erdős [11]
  • John Fox, statistician
  • Adolf Fraenkel, set theory[12]
  • Hans Freudenthal, algebraic topology[13]
  • Albrecht Frohlich [14]
  • David Glass, demographer
  • Sydney Goldstein [15], expert on fluid mechanics
  • Tomer Chachamu, expert on model theory
  • Benjamin Gompertz [16], mathematician
  • Eugene Grebenik [17], demographer

    • [18]

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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