List of Jewish American mathematicians

This is a list of famous Jewish American Mathematicians. For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.

  • Abraham Adrian Albert
  • Kenneth Appel, four-color problem 1
  • Richard Bellman, dynamic programming *
  • Lipman Bers, non-linear elliptic equations 2
  • Salomon Bochner, harmonic analysis *
  • Raoul Bott, geometry (Jewish mother) *
  • Richard Brauer, modular representation theory *
  • Eugenio Calabi, differential geometry *
  • Paul Cohen, set theorist, Fields Medal (1966) *
  • Richard Courant, algebraic topology *
  • George Dantzig, simplex algorithm *
  • Martin Davis, mathematician *
  • Persi Diaconis, statistician (Jewish mother) *
  • Jesse Douglas, mathematician, Fields Medal (1936) 3
  • Samuel Eilenberg, category theorist *
  • Noam Elkies, mathematician *
  • Paul Erdos, number theorist *
  • Charles Fefferman, mathematician, Fields Medal (1978) *
  • Mitchell Feigenbaum, chaos theorist 4
  • William Feller, probability theory
  • Michael Freedman, mathematician, Fields Medal (1986) (Jewish father) *
  • Dorian Goldfeld, number theorist, Cole Prize *
  • Michael Golomb, theory of approximation 5
  • Solomon Golomb, polyominoes 6
  • Paul Halmos, mathematician *
  • E. Morton Jellinek, biostatistician 7
  • Irving Kaplansky, mathematician *
  • Mark Kac, mathematician *
  • Edward Kasner, mathematician
  • Nick Katz, algebraic geometry *
  • Martin Kruskal, mathematician *
  • Cornelius Lanczos, mathematician and mathematical physicist 8
  • Peter Lax, mathematician, Abel Prize (2005) *
  • Solomon Lefschetz, algebraic topology *
  • Emma Lehmer, mathematician 9
  • Norman Levinson, mathematician *
  • George Lusztig, representation theory *
  • Barry Mazur, mathematician *
  • Louis Mordell, number theorist *
  • John von Neumann, mathematician 10
  • George Pólya, mathematician *
  • Emil Post, logician *
  • Herbert Robbins, statistician *
  • Abraham Robinson, nonstandard analysis *
  • Arthur Rubin, mathematician
  • Isadore Singer, mathematician, Abel Prize (2004) *
  • Richard P. Stanley, mathematician *
  • Elias Stein, mathematician *
  • Stanislaw Ulam, mathematician *
  • André Weil, mathematician *
  • Norbert Wiener, mathematician, Bôcher Prize, National Medal of Science *
  • Edward Witten, M-theory, Fields Medal (1990) *
  • Oscar Zariski, algebraic geometry *

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