List of Jewish mathematicians
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List of Jewish mathematicians is a list that includes mathematicians who are or were verifiably Jewish or of Jewish descent.
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[edit] A-G
- Abraham Manie Adelstein [1], statistician
- Hertha Ayrton [2], mathematician and engineer
- Laurence Baxter, statistician[3]
- Michael Baxter, statistician[4]
- Felix Bernstein, set theory[3]
- Abram Besicovitch [4], Russian-born British mathematician (Karaite)
- Maurice Block (1816 - 1901) statistician [5]
- Richard Brauer, modular representation theory[5]
- Selig Brodetsky [6], mathematician and President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews
- Jacob Bronowski [6], mathematician & broadcaster
- Georg Cantor, set theorist [7]
- Moritz Cantor, historian of mathematics[8]
- Richard Courant, mathematical analysis & applied mathematics[7]
- H.E. Daniels [9], statistician
- Philip Dawid [8], statistician
- Max Dehn, topology[9]
- Paul Epstein, number theory[10]
- Arthur Erdelyi [10], mathematician
- John Fox, statistician
- Adolf Fraenkel, set theory[11]
- Hans Freudenthal, algebraic topology[12]
- Albrecht Frohlich [13]
- David Glass [11], demographer
- Sydney Goldstein [14], expert on fluid mechanics
- Benjamin Gompertz [15], mathematician
- Eugene Grebenik [16], demographer
- Alexander Grothendieck (1928 - ) German-born mathematician, Fields Medal (1966)[17]
[edit] H-R
- Steven Haberman [18], professor of actuarial science
- Jacques Hadamard (1865 - 1963) mathematician[19]
- John Hajnal, demographer (JYB 2005 p215)
- Felix Hausdorff, topology[20]
- Hans Heilbronn (JYB 1977, p207)
- Heinz Hopf, topology (Jewish father)[21]
- Adolf Hurwitz, mathematician[22]
- Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi, analysis[23]
- Marie Jahoda [24], psychologist
- Thomas Körner, mathematician [12]
- Leopold Kronecker, number theory[25]
- Edmund Landau, number theory[26]
- Ruth Lawrence [27], mathematician & child prodigy
- Rudolf Lipschitz, mathematician[28]
- Kurt Mahler, mathematician[29]; (JYB 2005 p214)
- Hermann Minkowski, geometrical theory of numbers[13]
- Sir Claus Moser [30], statistician
- Louis Mordell [31], number theorist
- Leonard Nelson, mathematician, philosopher[32]
- Bernhard Neumann, mathematician[33]; (JYB 2005 p214)
- Emmy Noether, algebra & theoretical physics[34]
- Alfred Pringsheim, analysis, theory of functions[35]
- Richard Rado [36], mathematician
- Abraham Robinson, nonstandard analysis[37]
- Olinde Rodrigues (1795 - 1851) mathematician & social reformer[38]
- Klaus Roth, diophantine approximation, Fields Medal (1958)[39][40]
[edit] S-Z
- Arthur Moritz Schönflies, mathematician[41]
- Issai Schur, mathematician [42]
- Laurent Schwartz (1915 - 2002) mathematician, Fields Medal (1950)[43]
- Bernard Silverman, statistician [44]
- David Spiegelhalter, statistician (JYB 2007 p.198)
- James Joseph Sylvester [45], mathematician
- Otto Toeplitz, linear algebra & functional analysis [46]
- André Weil (1906 - 1998) mathematician, Wolf Prize (1979)[47]
[edit] References
- JYB = Jewish Year Book
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ article in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ article in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ Death notices in Jewish Chronicle, 15/11/1996 p 31; confirms Sidney Hart was his uncle
- ^ Who's Who in the World, 18th ed (2001) p.163: "Religion: Jewish"
- ^ Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th ed: "He was born in Berlin of Jewish parents. He studied at Bonn and Giessen, but settled in Paris, becoming naturalized there"
- ^ [1]: "These include the papers of Anglo-Jewish leaders, such as Selig Brodetsky"
- ^ "Mathematics and physics increasingly attracted Jews who were very creative in these fields, like George Cantor, Albert Einstein, Hermann Minkowski, Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Teller, and Lev Landau." Ben-Sasson, Haim, and Fred Skolnik. "History: Modern Times – from the 1880s to the Early 21st Century." Encyclopaedia Judaica. Eds. Michael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik. Vol. 9. 2nd ed. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007. 241-285.
- ^ Jewish Encyclopedia
- ^ article in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ Jewish: [2]; British: Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "became naturalised British citizen, 1947"
- ^ Obituary, Jewish Chronicle, Oct. 6 1978, p.32
- ^ Two Jewish parents: Stephan Körner (JYB 2005 p215) and Edith Körner
- ^ Contemporary Authors V 162 By Rooney, Scot Peacock, Pg 169
