Harold Calvin Marston Morse was an American mathematician best known for his work on the calculus of variations in the large, a subject where he introduced the technique of differential topology now known as Morse theory. The Morse–Palais lemma, one of the key results in Morse theory, is named after him, as is the Thue–Morse sequence, an infinite binary sequence with many applications. In 1933 he was awarded the Bôcher Memorial Prize for his work in mathematical analysis.
Nathan Jacobson was an American mathematician.
Irving Kaplansky was a mathematician, college professor, author, and musician.
Phillip Augustus Griffiths IV is an American mathematician, known for his work in the field of geometry, and in particular for the complex manifold approach to algebraic geometry. He was a major developer in particular of the theory of variation of Hodge structure in Hodge theory and moduli theory. He also worked on partial differential equations, coauthored with Shiing-Shen Chern, Robert Bryant and Robert Gardner on Exterior Differential Systems.
George David Birkhoff was an American mathematician best known for what is now called the ergodic theorem. Birkhoff was one of the most important leaders in American mathematics in his generation, and during his time he was considered by many to be the preeminent American mathematician.
James Dugundji was an American mathematician, a professor of mathematics at the University of Southern California.
Nolan Russell Wallach is a mathematician known for work in the representation theory of reductive algebraic groups. He is the author of the 2-volume treatise Real Reductive Groups.
George Benham Seligman is an American mathematician who works on Lie algebras, especially semi-simple Lie algebras.
Ronald Kay Getoor was an American mathematician.
Jacques Jean-Pierre Neveu (1932-2016) was a Belgian mathematician, specializing in probability theory. He is one of the founders of the French school of probability and statistics.
Mark Lee Green is an American mathematician, who does research in commutative algebra, algebraic geometry, Hodge theory, differential geometry, and the theory of several complex variables. He is known for Green's Conjecture on syzygies of canonical curves.
Bernold Fiedler is a German mathematician, specializing in nonlinear dynamics.
Henry Abel Dye Jr. (1926–1986) was an American mathematician, specializing in operator algebras and ergodic theory.
Horace Yomishi Mochizuki was an American mathematician known for his contributions to group theory. Mochizuki received a special award from the National Science Foundation for his work on the Burnside problem.
Thomas Ward is a British mathematician, currently Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education) at Newcastle University, who works in ergodic theory and dynamical systems and its relations to number theory.
Shmuel Friedland is an Israeli-American mathematician.
Brian Marcus is an American-born mathematician who works in Canada. He is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia (UBC), where he is the Site Director of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS), a fellow of the AMS and the IEEE. He was the Department Head of Mathematics at UBC from 2002 to 2007 and the Deputy Director of PIMS from 2016 to 2018.
Roger David Nussbaum is an American mathematician, specializing in nonlinear functional analysis and differential equations.
Shahar Mozes is an Israeli mathematician.
Daniel Jay Rudolph (1949–2010) was a mathematician who was considered a leader in ergodic theory and dynamical systems. He studied at Caltech and Stanford and taught postgraduate mathematics at Stanford University, the University of Maryland and Colorado State University, being appointed to the Albert C. Yates Endowed Chair in Mathematics at Colorado State in 2005. He jointly developed a theory of restricted orbit equivalence which unified several other theories. He founded and directed an intense preparation course for graduate math studies and began a Math circle for middle-school children. Early in life he was a modern dancer. He died in 2010 from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a degenerative motor neuron disease.
