List of Jewish American mathematicians explained

This is a list of notable Jewish American mathematicians. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.

• Abraham Adrian Albert (1905-1972), abstract algebra^[1]
• Kenneth Appel (1932-2013), four-color problem ^[2]
• Lipman Bers (1914-1993), non-linear elliptic equations^[3]
• Paul Cohen (1934-2007), set theorist; Fields Medal (1966)^[4]
• Jesse Douglas (1897-1965), mathematician; Fields Medal (1936), Bôcher Memorial Prize (1943)^[5]
• Samuel Eilenberg (1913-1988), category theory; Wolf Prize (1986), Steele Prize (1987)
• Yakov Eliashberg (born 1946), symplectic topology and partial differential equations
• Charles Fefferman (born 1949), mathematician; Fields Medal (1978), Bôcher Prize (2008)^{[6] [7]}
• William Feller (1906-1970), probability theory ^[8]
• Michael Freedman (born 1951), mathematician; Fields Medal (1986)^[9]
• Hillel Furstenberg (born 1935), mathematician; Wolf Prize (2006/07), Abel Prize (2020)^[10]
• Michael Golomb (1909-2008), theory of approximation ^[11]
• Michael Harris (born 1954), mathematician^[12]
• E. Morton Jellinek (1890-1963), biostatistician ^[13]
• Edward Kasner (1878-1955), mathematician ^[14]
• Sergiu Klainerman (born 1950), hyperbolic differential equations and general relativity, MacArthur Fellow (1991), Guggenheim Fellow (1997), Bôcher Memorial Prize(1999) ^[9]
• Cornelius Lanczos (1893-1974), mathematician and mathematical physicist ^[15]
• Peter Lax (born 1926), mathematician; Wolf Prize (1987), Steele Prize (1993), Abel Prize (2005)^[16]
• Emma Lehmer (1906-2007), mathematician ^[17]
• Grigory Margulis (born 1946), mathematician; Fields Medal (1978), Wolf Prize (2005), Abel Prize (2020)^[10]
• Barry Mazur (born 1937), mathematician; Cole Prize (1982), Chern Medal (2022)^[18]
• John von Neumann (1903-1957), mathematician^[19]
• Ken Ribet (born 1948), algebraic number theory and algebraic geometry^[9]
• Peter Sarnak (born 1953), analytic number theory; Pólya Prize (1998), Cole Prize (2005), Wolf Prize (2014)^[9]
• Yakov Sinai (born 1935), dynamical systems; Wolf Prize (1997), Steele Prize (2013), Abel Prize (2014)^[9]
• Isadore Singer (1924-2021), mathematician; Bôcher Prize (1969), Steele Prize (2000), Abel Prize (2004)^[9]
• Robert M. Solovay (born 1938), mathematician; Paris Kanellakis Award (2003)^[9]
• Elias Stein (1931-2018), harmonic analysis; Wolf Prize (1999), Steele Prize (2002)
• Edward Witten (born 1951), theoretical physics; Fields Medal (1990) ^[20]

See also

• List of Jewish mathematicians

Notes and References

1. "A. A. Albert", D. Zelinsky, The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 80, No. 6 (Jun. - Jul., 1973), pp. 661-665: "He was the son of a Jewish family that came to America from England"
2. Web site: Jewish Computer & Information Scientists.
3. Web site: Lipman Bers - Biography.
4. Paul Cohen's parents, Abraham and Minnie Cohen, were Jewish immigrants to the United States from their native land of Poland.
5. Peter Lax, Mathematician: An Illustrated Memoir, by Reuben Hersh (American Mathematical Soc. 2014), page 102
6. The Jewish lists: physicists and generals, actors and writers, and hundreds of other lists of accomplished Jews, Martin Harry Greenberg, (Schocken, 1979), page 110
7. American Jewish Year Book 2017: The Annual Record of the North American Jewish Communities, Arnold Dashefsky, Ira M. Sheskin, (Springer, 2018), page 796
8. "Mathematicians under the Nazis" by Prof Sanford Segal of the University of Rochester (Princeton University Press, 2003, p460): "...Tornier had collaborated with Willi Feller (who was Jewish)..."
9. Web site: Jewish Mathematicians . Jinfo.org . 5 April 2020.
10. News: Mathematics pioneers who found order in chaos win Abel prize. Nature. 18 March 2020. Davide. Castelvecchi. 10.1038/d41586-020-00799-7.
11. Web site: Holocaust survivors tell oral histories in 'Bitter Prerequisites' . March 2001 . Purdue News.
12. Book: Harris, Michael . Mathematics without apologies : portrait of a problematic vocation . . 2015 . 978-1-4008-5202-4 . 900080550.
13. Web site: Ranes Report.
14. http://beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/stand_columbia/TimelineCUJew.html Columbia University
15. Web site: Lanczos biography . 2013-05-09 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120210055608/http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Lanczos.html . 2012-02-10 .
16. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Peter-Lax Peter Lax
17. Web site: 05.11.2007 - Mathematician Emma Lehmer dies at 100.
18. Web site: Jewish Recipients of the Frank Nelson Cole Prizes in Algebra and Number Theory. Jinfo.org . 1 July 2018.
19. Web site: John von Neumann - Biography.
20. http://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Witten.html Witten biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics