List of American mathematicians
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- Stephanie B. Alexander, elected in 2014 as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to geometry, for high-quality exposition, and for exceptional teaching of mathematics."
- Ann S. Almgren, applied mathematician who works as a senior scientist and group leader of the Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
- Frederick Almgren (1933-1997)
- Richard Bellman (1920-1984)
- Javier Perez-Capdevila (b. 1963 in Cuba)
- Benjamin Banneker (1731–1806)
- Augustin Banyaga (b. 1947 in Rwanda)
- Robert Daniel Carmichael (1879-1967)
- William Schieffelin Claytor (1908–1967), third African-American to earn a Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania [1][2]
- Katherine Johnson (b. 1918)
- David Blackwell (1919–2010)
- Marjorie Lee Browne (1914–1979), taught at North Carolina Central University
- Elbert Frank Cox (1895–1969), first black person in the world to earn a Ph.D. in Mathematics, Cornell University
- Joseph J. Dennis (1905–1977), Clark College
- Etta Zuber Falconer (1933–2002)
- Lisa Fauci, applied mathematician who applies computational fluid dynamics to biological processes.
- Erica Flapan, researcher in low-dimensional topology and knot theory
- Ralph Fox (1913-1973)
- Daniel Gorenstein (1923-1992)
- Evelyn Boyd Granville (b. 1924)
- Euphemia Haynes (1890–1980), first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics
- Gloria Conyers Hewitt (born 1935)
- Clifford Victor Johnson (?, awarded B.S. from Imperial College in 1989)
- Suzanne Lenhart, researcher in partial differential equations, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics from 2001 to 2003.
- Harold W. Kuhn (1925-2014)
- James Lepowsky (1944-)
- Marie Litzinger, (1899–1952), American number theorist
- Barry Mazur (1937-)
- Kelly Miller (1863–1939)
- Marston Morse (1892-1977)
- Frederick Mosteller (1916-2006)
- Vera Pless, (1931– ), mathematician specializing in combinatorics and coding theory
- Charles Reason (1818–1893)
- Herbert Robbins (1915-2001)
- Claude Shannon (1916-2001)
- Raymond Smullyan (1919-)
- Link Starbureiy
- Clarence F. Stephens (b. 1917)
- Lee Stiff (b. 1941) [3]
- Walter R. Talbot (1909–1979), fourth African-American to earn a Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh
- Jean Taylor (1944-)
- John Urschel (b. 1991)
- John Tukey (1915-2000)
- Herbert Wilf (1931-2012)
- J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr. (1923–2011)
- Dudley Weldon Woodard (1881–1965), second African-American to earn a Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania
References
- ↑ "William Claytor, a mathematical genius". African American Registry. Retrieved 2015-02-26.
- ↑ "Williams W. Schieffelin Claytor". Mathematicians of the African Diaspora. Retrieved 2015-02-26.
- ↑ Listed by the NCSU College of Education, in a citation for their Distinguished Alumni Award, as being the recipient of the 1993 NCSU Provost’s African-American Professional Development Award.
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