List of American mathematicians

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This is a list of American mathematicians .

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List

• James Waddell Alexander II (1888–1971)
• 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 (1933–1997)
• Beverly Anderson (b. 1943)
• Natascha Artin Brunswick (1909–2003)
• Tamara Awerbuch-Friedlander (1941–2021)
• Wealthy Babcock (1895–1990)
• Benjamin Banneker (1731–1806)
• Augustin Banyaga (b. 1947)
• Ruth Aaronson Bari (1917–2005)
• Janet Barnett
• Jon Barwise (1942–2000)
• Richard Bellman (1920–1984)
• Leonid Berlyand (b. 1957)
• Leah Berman (b. 1976)
• Manjul Bhargava (b. 1974)
• George David Birkhoff (1884–1944)
• David Blackwell (1919–2010)
• Archie Blake (1906–1971)
• Nathaniel Bowditch (1773–1838)
• Andrew Browder (1931–2019)
• Felix Browder (1927–2016)
• William Browder (1934–2025), pioneered the surgery theory method for classifying high-dimensional manifolds.
• Marjorie Lee Browne (1914–1979), taught at North Carolina Central University
• Robert Daniel Carmichael (1879–1967)
• Sun-Yung Alice Chang (b. 1948), researcher in mathematical analysis
• Alonzo Church (1903–1995)
• William Schieffelin Claytor (1908–1967), third African-American to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, University of Pennsylvania ^{[1] [2]}
• Paul Cohen (1934–2007)
• Don Coppersmith (b. 1950), cryptographer, first four-time Putnam Fellow in history
• Elbert Frank Cox (1895–1969), first African-American to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, Cornell University
• Laura Demarco (b. 1974), researcher in dynamical systems and complex analysis
• Joseph J. Dennis (1905–1977), Clark College
• Joseph L. Doob (1910–2004)
• Jesse Douglas (1897–1965)
• Samuel Eilenberg (1913–1998)
• Noam Elkies (b. 1966), mathematical prodigy who works in computational number theory
• Jerald Ericksen (1924–2021)
• Alex Eskin (b. 1965), researcher in rational billiards and geometric group theory
• Christina Eubanks-Turner, American mathematics educator, graph theorist, and commutative algebraist
• Lawrence C. Evans (b. 1949)
• Etta Zuber Falconer (1933–2002)
• Benson Farb (b. 1965), researcher in geometric group theory and low-dimensional topology
• Lisa Fauci, applied mathematician who applies computational fluid dynamics to biological processes
• Charles Fefferman (b. 1949)
• Henry Burchard Fine (1858–1928)
• Erica Flapan (b. 1956), researcher in low-dimensional topology and knot theory
• Alfred Leon Foster (1904–1994)
• Ralph Fox (1913–1973)
• Michael Freedman (b. 1951)
• Edgar Fuller
• Murray Gerstenhaber (1927–2024)
• Andrew M. Gleason (1921–2008), WWII codebreaker, major contributor in solving Hilbert's 5th Problem ("restricted" version).
• Thomas Godfrey (1704–1749)
• Ralph E. Gomory (b. 1929)
• Daniel Gorenstein (1923–1992)
• Ronald Graham (1935–2020)
• Evelyn Boyd Granville (1924–2023)
• Phillip Griffiths (b. 1938), major contributor to complex manifold approach to algebraic geometry
• Benedict Gross (b. 1950)
• Frank Harary (1921–2005)
• Joe Harris (mathematician) (b. 1951), prolific researcher and expositor of algebraic geometry
• Euphemia Haynes (1890–1980), first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics
• Gloria Conyers Hewitt (b. 1935)
• George William Hill (1838–1914)
• Einar Hille (1894–1980)
• Alston Scott Householder (1904–1993)
• Nathan Jacobson (1910–1999)
• Katherine Johnson (1918–2020)
• Theodore Kaczynski (1942–2023)
• Howard Jerome Keisler (b. 1936)
• Victor Klee (1925–2007)
• Holly Krieger
• Harold W. Kuhn (1925–2014)
• Kenneth Kunen (1943–2020)
• Solomon Lefschetz (1884–1972)
• Suzanne Lenhart (b. 1954) researcher in partial differential equations; president of the Association for Women in Mathematics, 2001–2003
• James Lepowsky (b. 1944)
• Marie Litzinger (1899–1952), number theorist
• Jacob Lurie (b. 1977), developed derived algebraic geometry
• Saunders Mac Lane (1909–2005)
• George Mackey (1916-2006)
• W. T. Martin (1911–2004)
• William S. Massey (1920–2017)
• John N. Mather (1942–2017)
• J. Peter May (b. 1939), researcher in algebraic topology, category theory, homotopy theory, and the foundational aspects of spectra
• Barry Mazur (b. 1937)
• Curtis T. McMullen (b. 1958)
• Elliott Mendelson (1931–2020)
• Winifred Edgerton Merrill (1862–1951)
• Kelly Miller (1863–1939)
• Kenneth Millett (b. 1941)
• John Milnor (b. 1931)
• Susan Montgomery (b. 1943)
• E. H. Moore (1862–1932)
• Marston Morse (1892–1977)
• Charles B. Morrey Jr. (1907-1984)
• George Mostow (1923–2017)
• Frederick Mosteller (1916–2006)
• David Mumford (b. 1937)
• John Forbes Nash Jr. (1928–2015)
• Edward Nelson (1932–2014)
• Walter Noll (1925–2017)
• Michael O'Nan (1943–2017)
• Richard Palais (b. 1931)
• Benjamin Peirce (1809–1880)
• Javier Perez-Capdevila (b. 1963)
• Vera Pless (1931–2020), mathematician specialized in combinatorics and coding theory
• Jon T. Pitts (1948–2024)
• Daniel Quillen (1940–2011)
• Charles Reason (1818–1893)
• Jeffrey B. Remmel (1948–2017)
• Joseph Ritt (1893–1951)
• Fred S. Roberts (b. 1943)
• Herbert Robbins (1915–2001)
• Julia Robinson (1919–1985), contributor to Hilbert's tenth problem
• J. Barkley Rosser (1907–1989)
• Gerald Sacks (1933–2019)
• John Sarli (living), mathematician and academic
• Thomas Jerome Schaefer
• Dana Scott (b. 1932)
• James Serrin (1926–2012)
• Claude Shannon (1916–2001)
• Isadore Singer (1924–2021)
• Charles Coffin Sims (1938–2017)
• George Seligman (1927–2024)
• Stephen Smale (b. 1930)
• Raymond Smullyan (1919–2017)
• Edwin Spanier (1921–1996)
• Norman Steenrod (1910–1971)
• Elias M. Stein (1931–2018)
• Clarence F. Stephens (1917–2018)
• Lee Stiff (1949–2021) ^[3]
• Marshall Harvey Stone (1903–1989)
• Theodore Strong (1790–1869)
• Terence Tao (b. 1975)
• John Tate (1925–2019)
• Jean Taylor (b. 1944)
• John G. Thompson (b. 1932)
• Sister Mary Domitilla Thuener (1880–1977)
• William Thurston (1936–2012) ^{[4] [5]}
• Clifford Truesdell (1919–2000)
• John Tukey (1915–2000)
• John Urschel (b. 1991)
• Dorothy Vaughan (1910–2008)
• Oswald Veblen (1880–1960)
• Mary Shore Walker (1882–1952)
• William C. Waterhouse (1941–2016)
• Herbert Wilf (1931–2012)
• J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr. (1923–2011)
• Amie Wilkinson (b. 1968), researcher in dynamical systems, ergodic theory, chaos theory and semisimple Lie groups
• Hassler Whitney (1907–1989)
• Dudley Weldon Woodard (1881–1965), second African-American to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, University of Pennsylvania
• Margaret H. Wright (b. 1944), first woman president of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

References

1. "William Claytor, a mathematical genius". African American Registry. Retrieved February 26, 2015.
2. "Williams W. Schieffelin Claytor". Mathematiciansof the African Diaspora. Retrieved February 26, 2015.
3. Listed by the NCSU College of Education, in a citation for their Distinguished Alumni Award Archived 2011-08-13 at the Wayback Machine , as being the recipient of the 1993 NCSU Provost's African-American Professional Development Award.
4. "Hawai'i's Human Beatbox". University of Hawaiʻi Foundation Office of Alumni Relations. October 19, 2018. Retrieved November 25, 2019.
5. "Kapiʻolani CC alum stays on beat spreading message of perseverance". University of Hawaiʻi News. December 13, 2018. Retrieved November 25, 2019.