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This list of Jewish mathematicians includes mathematicians and statisticians who are or were 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] 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: 27% for the Fields Medal, 30% for the Abel Prize, and 40% for the Wolf Prize. [2] [3] : V13:678
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)Bernays came from a distinguished German-Jewish family of scholars and businessmen. His great-grandfather, Isaac ben Jacob Bernays, chief rabbi of Hamburg, was known for both strict Orthodox views and modern educational ideas. His grandfather, Louis Bernays, a merchant, traveled widely before helping to found the Jewish community in Zurich, while his great-uncle, Jacob Bernays, was a Privatdozent at the University of Bonn.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)Leonid was barred from teaching at a regular university in the Soviet Union because of his Jewish ancestry.
Er ist aber in Kopenhagen geboren, von israelitischen Eltern, die der dortigen portugisischen Judengemeinde. ([His father] was born in Copenhagen of Jewish parents from the local Portuguese-Jewish community.)
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)The son of Sigmund and Charlotte (Neuberger) Fraenkel, he was strongly influenced by his orthodox Jewish heritage.
Joseph Bishop Keller was born in Paterson, N.J., on July 31, 1923. His father, Isaac Keiles – whose name, he said, was changed when he arrived in the United States – was a Russian refugee who fled pogroms against Jews.
He has suffered anti-Semitism (he is Jewish) [...] Grigory is pure Jewish and I never minded that but my bosses did.
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