List of American mathematicians
This is a list of American mathematicians.
List
- James Waddell Alexander II
- 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"
- Linda J. S. Allen
- 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
- Beverly Anderson
- Natascha Artin Brunswick
- Tamara Awerbuch-Friedlander
- Wealthy Babcock
- Benjamin Banneker
- Augustin Banyaga
- Ruth Aaronson Bari
- Janet Barnett
- Jon Barwise
- Richard Bellman
- Leonid Berlyand
- Leah Berman
- Manjul Bhargava
- George David Birkhoff
- David Blackwell
- Archie Blake
- Nathaniel Bowditch
- Andrew Browder
- Felix Browder
- William Browder, pioneered the surgery theory method for classifying high-dimensional manifolds.
- Marjorie Lee Browne, taught at North Carolina Central University
- Robert Daniel Carmichael
- Sun-Yung Alice Chang, researcher in mathematical analysis
- Alonzo Church
- William Schieffelin Claytor, third African-American to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, University of Pennsylvania
- Paul Cohen
- Don Coppersmith, cryptographer, first four-time Putnam Fellow in history
- Elbert Frank Cox, first African-American to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, Cornell University
- Laura Demarco, researcher in dynamical systems and complex analysis
- Joseph J. Dennis, Clark College
- Joseph L. Doob
- Jesse Douglas
- Samuel Eilenberg
- Noam Elkies, mathematical prodigy who works in computational number theory
- Jerald Ericksen
- Alex Eskin, researcher in rational billiards and geometric group theory
- Christina Eubanks-Turner, American mathematics educator, graph theorist, and commutative algebraist
- Lawrence C. Evans
- Etta Zuber Falconer
- Benson Farb, researcher in geometric group theory and low-dimensional topology
- Lisa Fauci, applied mathematician who applies computational fluid dynamics to biological processes
- Charles Fefferman
- Henry Burchard Fine
- Erica Flapan, researcher in low-dimensional topology and knot theory
- Alfred Leon Foster
- Ralph Fox
- Michael Freedman
- Edgar Fuller
- Murray Gerstenhaber
- Andrew M. Gleason, WWII codebreaker, major contributor in solving Hilbert's 5th Problem.
- Thomas Godfrey
- Ralph E. Gomory
- Daniel Gorenstein
- Ronald Graham
- Evelyn Boyd Granville
- Phillip Griffiths, major contributor to complex manifold approach to algebraic geometry
- Benedict Gross
- Frank Harary
- Joe Harris (mathematician), prolific researcher and expositor of algebraic geometry
- Euphemia Haynes, first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics
- Gloria Conyers Hewitt
- George William Hill
- Einar Hille
- Alston Scott Householder
- Nathan Jacobson
- Katherine Johnson
- Theodore Kaczynski
- Howard Jerome Keisler
- Victor Klee
- Holly Krieger
- Harold W. Kuhn
- Kenneth Kunen
- Solomon Lefschetz
- Suzanne Lenhart researcher in partial differential equations; president of the Association for Women in Mathematics, 2001–2003
- James Lepowsky
- Marie Litzinger, number theorist
- Jacob Lurie, developed derived algebraic geometry
- Saunders Mac Lane
- George Mackey
- W. T. Martin
- William S. Massey
- John N. Mather
- J. Peter May, researcher in algebraic topology, category theory, homotopy theory, and the foundational aspects of spectra
- Margaret Evelyn Mauch
- Barry Mazur
- Curtis T. McMullen
- Elliott Mendelson
- Winifred Edgerton Merrill
- Kelly Miller
- Kenneth Millett
- John Milnor
- Susan Montgomery
- E. H. Moore
- Marston Morse
- Charles B. Morrey Jr.
- George Mostow
- Frederick Mosteller
- David Mumford
- John Forbes Nash Jr.
- Edward Nelson
- Walter Noll
- Michael O'Nan
- Richard Palais
- Benjamin Peirce
- Leona May Peirce 1863–1954)
- Javier Perez-Capdevila
- Vera Pless, mathematician specialized in combinatorics and coding theory
- Jon T. Pitts
- Daniel Quillen
- Charles Reason
- Jeffrey B. Remmel
- Joseph Ritt
- Fred S. Roberts
- Herbert Robbins
- Julia Robinson, contributor to Hilbert's tenth problem
- J. Barkley Rosser
- Gerald Sacks
- Grant Sanderson 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel
- John Sarli, mathematician and academic
- Thomas Jerome Schaefer
- Dana Scott
- James Serrin
- Claude Shannon
- Isadore Singer
- Charles Coffin Sims
- George Seligman
- Stephen Smale
- Raymond Smullyan
- Edwin Spanier
- Norman Steenrod
- Elias M. Stein
- Clarence F. Stephens
- Lee Stiff
- Marshall Harvey Stone
- Theodore Strong
- Terence Tao
- John Tate
- Jean Taylor
- John G. Thompson
- Sister Mary Domitilla Thuener
- William Thurston
- Clifford Truesdell
- John Tukey
- John Urschel
- Dorothy Vaughan
- Oswald Veblen
- Mary Shore Walker
- William C. Waterhouse
- Herbert Wilf
- J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr.
- Amie Wilkinson, researcher in dynamical systems, ergodic theory, chaos theory and semisimple Lie groups
- Hassler Whitney
- Dudley Weldon Woodard, second African-American to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, University of Pennsylvania
- Margaret H. Wright, first woman president of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics