This is a list of American mathematicians.
List
- James Waddell Alexander II (1888âÂÂ1971)
- 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"
- Linda J. S. Allen
- 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 (1933âÂÂ1997)
- Beverly Anderson (b. 1943)
- Natascha Artin Brunswick (1909âÂÂ2003)
- Tamara Awerbuch-Friedlander (1941âÂÂ2021)
- Wealthy Babcock (1895âÂÂ1990)
- Benjamin Banneker (1731âÂÂ1806)
- Augustin Banyaga (b. 1947)
- Ruth Aaronson Bari (1917âÂÂ2005)
- Janet Barnett
- Jon Barwise (1942âÂÂ2000)
- Richard Bellman (1920âÂÂ1984)
- Leonid Berlyand (b. 1957)
- Leah Berman (b. 1976)
- Manjul Bhargava (b. 1974)
- George David Birkhoff (1884âÂÂ1944)
- David Blackwell (1919âÂÂ2010)
- Archie Blake (1906âÂÂ1971)
- Nathaniel Bowditch (1773âÂÂ1838)
- Andrew Browder (1931âÂÂ2019)
- Felix Browder (1927âÂÂ2016)
- William Browder (1934âÂÂ2025), pioneered the surgery theory method for classifying high-dimensional manifolds.
- Marjorie Lee Browne (1914âÂÂ1979), taught at North Carolina Central University
- Robert Daniel Carmichael (1879âÂÂ1967)
- Sun-Yung Alice Chang (b. 1948), researcher in mathematical analysis
- Alonzo Church (1903âÂÂ1995)
- William Schieffelin Claytor (1908âÂÂ1967), third African-American to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, University of Pennsylvania
- Paul Cohen (1934âÂÂ2007)
- Don Coppersmith (b. 1950), cryptographer, first four-time Putnam Fellow in history
- Elbert Frank Cox (1895âÂÂ1969), first African-American to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, Cornell University
- Laura Demarco (b. 1974), researcher in dynamical systems and complex analysis
- Joseph J. Dennis (1905âÂÂ1977), Clark College
- Joseph L. Doob (1910âÂÂ2004)
- Jesse Douglas (1897âÂÂ1965)
- Samuel Eilenberg (1913âÂÂ1998)
- Noam Elkies (b. 1966), mathematical prodigy who works in computational number theory
- Jerald Ericksen (1924âÂÂ2021)
- Alex Eskin (b. 1965), researcher in rational billiards and geometric group theory
- Christina Eubanks-Turner, American mathematics educator, graph theorist, and commutative algebraist
- Lawrence C. Evans (b. 1949)
- Etta Zuber Falconer (1933âÂÂ2002)
- Benson Farb (b. 1965), researcher in geometric group theory and low-dimensional topology
- Lisa Fauci, applied mathematician who applies computational fluid dynamics to biological processes
- Charles Fefferman (b. 1949)
- Henry Burchard Fine (1858âÂÂ1928)
- Erica Flapan (b. 1956), researcher in low-dimensional topology and knot theory
- Alfred Leon Foster (1904âÂÂ1994)
- Ralph Fox (1913âÂÂ1973)
- Michael Freedman (b. 1951)
- Edgar Fuller
- Murray Gerstenhaber (1927âÂÂ2024)
- Andrew M. Gleason (1921âÂÂ2008), WWII codebreaker, major contributor in solving Hilbert's 5th Problem ("restricted" version).
- Thomas Godfrey (1704âÂÂ1749)
- Ralph E. Gomory (b. 1929)
- Daniel Gorenstein (1923âÂÂ1992)
- Ronald Graham (1935âÂÂ2020)
- Evelyn Boyd Granville (1924âÂÂ2023)
- Phillip Griffiths (b. 1938), major contributor to complex manifold approach to algebraic geometry
- Benedict Gross (b. 1950)
- Frank Harary (1921âÂÂ2005)
- Joe Harris (mathematician) (b. 1951), prolific researcher and expositor of algebraic geometry
- Euphemia Haynes (1890âÂÂ1980), first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics
- Gloria Conyers Hewitt (b. 1935)
- George William Hill (1838âÂÂ1914)
- Einar Hille (1894âÂÂ1980)
- Alston Scott Householder (1904âÂÂ1993)
- Nathan Jacobson (1910âÂÂ1999)
- Katherine Johnson (1918âÂÂ2020)
- Theodore Kaczynski (1942âÂÂ2023)
- Howard Jerome Keisler (b. 1936)
- Victor Klee (1925âÂÂ2007)
- Holly Krieger
- Harold W. Kuhn (1925âÂÂ2014)
- Kenneth Kunen (1943âÂÂ2020)
- Solomon Lefschetz (1884âÂÂ1972)
- Suzanne Lenhart (b. 1954) researcher in partial differential equations; president of the Association for Women in Mathematics, 2001âÂÂ2003
- James Lepowsky (b. 1944)
- Marie Litzinger (1899âÂÂ1952), number theorist
- Jacob Lurie (b. 1977), developed derived algebraic geometry
- Saunders Mac Lane (1909âÂÂ2005)
- George Mackey (1916-2006)
- W. T. Martin (1911âÂÂ2004)
- William S. Massey (1920âÂÂ2017)
- John N. Mather (1942âÂÂ2017)
- J. Peter May (b. 1939), researcher in algebraic topology, category theory, homotopy theory, and the foundational aspects of spectra
- Margaret Evelyn Mauch (1897âÂÂ1987)
- Barry Mazur (b. 1937)
- Curtis T. McMullen (b. 1958)
- Elliott Mendelson (1931âÂÂ2020)
- Winifred Edgerton Merrill (1862âÂÂ1951)
- Kelly Miller (1863âÂÂ1939)
- Kenneth Millett (b. 1941)
- John Milnor (b. 1931)
- Susan Montgomery (b. 1943)
- E. H. Moore (1862âÂÂ1932)
- Marston Morse (1892âÂÂ1977)
- Charles B. Morrey Jr. (1907-1984)
- George Mostow (1923âÂÂ2017)
- Frederick Mosteller (1916âÂÂ2006)
- David Mumford (b. 1937)
- John Forbes Nash Jr. (1928âÂÂ2015)
- Edward Nelson (1932âÂÂ2014)
- Walter Noll (1925âÂÂ2017)
- Michael O'Nan (1943âÂÂ2017)
- Richard Palais (b. 1931)
- Benjamin Peirce (1809âÂÂ1880)
- Leona May Peirce 1863âÂÂ1954)
- Javier Perez-Capdevila (b. 1963)
- Vera Pless (1931âÂÂ2020), mathematician specialized in combinatorics and coding theory
- Jon T. Pitts (1948âÂÂ2024)
- Daniel Quillen (1940âÂÂ2011)
- Charles Reason (1818âÂÂ1893)
- Jeffrey B. Remmel (1948âÂÂ2017)
- Joseph Ritt (1893âÂÂ1951)
- Fred S. Roberts (b. 1943)
- Herbert Robbins (1915âÂÂ2001)
- Julia Robinson (1919âÂÂ1985), contributor to Hilbert's tenth problem
- J. Barkley Rosser (1907âÂÂ1989)
- Gerald Sacks (1933âÂÂ2019)
- Grant Sanderson (b. 1997) 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel
- John Sarli (living), mathematician and academic
- Thomas Jerome Schaefer
- Dana Scott (b. 1932)
- James Serrin (1926âÂÂ2012)
- Claude Shannon (1916âÂÂ2001)
- Isadore Singer (1924âÂÂ2021)
- Charles Coffin Sims (1938âÂÂ2017)
- George Seligman (1927âÂÂ2024)
- Stephen Smale (b. 1930)
- Raymond Smullyan (1919âÂÂ2017)
- Edwin Spanier (1921âÂÂ1996)
- Norman Steenrod (1910âÂÂ1971)
- Elias M. Stein (1931âÂÂ2018)
- Clarence F. Stephens (1917âÂÂ2018)
- Lee Stiff (1949âÂÂ2021)
- Marshall Harvey Stone (1903âÂÂ1989)
- Theodore Strong (1790âÂÂ1869)
- Terence Tao (b. 1975)
- John Tate (1925âÂÂ2019)
- Jean Taylor (b. 1944)
- John G. Thompson (b. 1932)
- Sister Mary Domitilla Thuener (1880âÂÂ1977)
- William Thurston (1936âÂÂ2012)
- Clifford Truesdell (1919âÂÂ2000)
- John Tukey (1915âÂÂ2000)
- John Urschel (b. 1991)
- Dorothy Vaughan (1910âÂÂ2008)
- Oswald Veblen (1880âÂÂ1960)
- Mary Shore Walker (1882âÂÂ1952)
- William C. Waterhouse (1941âÂÂ2016)
- Herbert Wilf (1931âÂÂ2012)
- J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr. (1923âÂÂ2011)
- Amie Wilkinson (b. 1968), researcher in dynamical systems, ergodic theory, chaos theory and semisimple Lie groups
- Hassler Whitney (1907âÂÂ1989)
- Dudley Weldon Woodard (1881âÂÂ1965), second African-American to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, University of Pennsylvania
- Margaret H. Wright (b. 1944), first woman president of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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