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
Combinatorics is an area of mathematics primarily concerned with counting, both as a means and as an end to obtaining results, and certain properties of finite structures. It is closely related to many other areas of mathematics and has many applications ranging from logic to statistical physics and from evolutionary biology to computer science.
Vladimir Igorevich Arnold was a Soviet and Russian mathematician. He is best known for the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem regarding the stability of integrable systems, and contributed to several areas, including geometrical theory of dynamical systems theory, algebra, catastrophe theory, topology, real algebraic geometry, symplectic geometry, symplectic topology, differential equations, classical mechanics, differential geometric approach to hydrodynamics, geometric analysis and singularity theory, including posing the ADE classification problem.
Sergei Petrovich Novikov is a Soviet and Russian mathematician, noted for work in both algebraic topology and soliton theory. In 1970, he won the Fields Medal.
Abraham bar Ḥiyya ha-Nasi, also known as Abraham Savasorda, Abraham Albargeloni, and Abraham Judaeus, was a Catalan Jewish mathematician, astronomer and philosopher who resided in Barcelona.
Giulio Ascoli was a Jewish-Italian mathematician. He was a student of the Scuola Normale di Pisa, where he graduated in 1868.
Ḥayyim Selig ben Ya'akov Slonimski, also known by his acronym ḤaZaS, was a Hebrew publisher, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, science writer, and rabbi. He was among the first to write books on science for a broad Jewish audience, and was the founder of Ha-Tsfira, the first Hebrew-language newspaper with an emphasis on the sciences.
Mathematics is a broad subject that is commonly divided in many areas that may be defined by their objects of study, by the used methods, or by both. For example, analytic number theory is a subarea of number theory devoted to the use of methods of analysis for the study of natural numbers.
Simon ben Moses ben Simon Motot was a Jewish-Italian mathematician of the fifteenth century who probably lived in Lombardy. His treatise was likely the first Hebrew work giving a detailed treatment of the al-Khwarizmian form of algebra.
Mordechai ben Abraham Finzi was a Jewish mathematician, astronomer, grammarian and physician in Mantua.
Abraham Joseph ben Simon Wolf Menz was an eighteenth century rabbi and mathematician at Frankfurt.
Baruch Solomon Löwenstein was a Jewish mathematician. He wrote Bikkure ha-Limmudiyyot, explanations of mathematical passages in the works of Abraham ibn Ezra, Moses Maimonides, and Joseph Delmedigo. He also annotated and published in 1863 a second edition of Shebile di-Reḳia, by Elias ben Ḥayyim Kohen Höchheimer, on the rules of the calendar, with the elements of geometry, trigonometry, and astronomy.
Isaac ben Moses Eli ha-Sefaradi was a fifteenth century Spanish Jewish mathematician, born at Oriola, Aragon.
Elijah ben Moses Gershon Ẓahalon of Pinczow was an eighteenth-century Jewish Talmudist, mathematician and physician living in Pińczów, Russian Poland.
Israel ben Moses ha-Levi Zamosz was an eighteenth-century Talmudist, mathematician and poet.
Moses Ensheim, also known as Brisac and Moses Metz, was a French-Jewish mathematician and Hebrew poet.
Louis Saalschütz was a Prussian-Jewish mathematician, known for his contributions to number theory and mathematical analysis.
Yitzchak ben Nechemia Ratner was a nineteenth-century Jewish maskilic mathematician. He wrote mathematical and astronomical articles for various journals, and was the author of Mishpat Emet (1884), a criticism of Lichtenfeld's pamphlets against Slonimski's works. In 1888 he edited a second edition of Slonimski's Yesodei Chokmat ha-Shi'ur on the principles of algebra.
Abraham ben Ephraim Niederländer, also known as Abraham Sofer and the Sofer of Prague, was a 16th-century Jewish-Austrian mathematician. The sofer of Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, he also wrote Brit Avraham (1609), a work of Jewish arithmetic based largely on Elijah Mizrachi's Sefer ha-Mispar, as well as general mathematics books.
Abu al-Fadl ben Yosef Hasdai was an eleventh-century philosopher, poet, mathematician, physician, and political figure in Zaragoza, then under the Taifa of Zaragoza.
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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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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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