Mathematics
- Abraham Adrian Albert (B.S. 1926, S.M. 1927, Ph.D. 1928) -
- George Birkhoff (Ph.D. 1907) - Bôcher Memorial Prize winner.
- Gilbert Ames Bliss (Ph.D. 1900) -
- Alberto Calderón (Ph.D. 1950) - Cofounded the Chicago school of mathematical analysis. Winner of Bôcher Memorial Prize, the Wolf Prize, and the National Medal of Science.
- Paul J. Cohen (S.M. 1954, Ph.D. 1958) - Fields Medal winner.
- David Eisenbud (Ph.D. 1970) -
- Bernard Galler (Ph.D. 1955) -
- Richard Hamming (B.S. 1947) -
- Thomas W. Hungerford (Ph.D. 1963) -
- John Irwin Hutchinson (Ph.D. 1896) -
- Saunders MacLane (A.M. 1931) - Cofounder of category theory.
- Anil Nerode (Ph.D. 1956) -
- Isadore Singer (Ph.D. 1955) - Abel Prize winner.
- Elias M. Stein (Ph.D. 1959) - Fields Medal winner.
- John Thompson (Ph.D. 1959) - World leader in group theory. Fields Medal and National Medal of Science winner.
- Oswald Veblen (Ph.D. 1903) -
- George W. Whitehead (Ph.D. 1941) -
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Famous quotes containing the word mathematics:
“Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable because we don’t happen to have all the data. In mathematics we have all the data ... and yet we don’t understand. We always come back to the contemplation of our human wretchedness. What force is in relation to our will, the impenetrable opacity of mathematics is in relation to our intelligence.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)
“The three main medieval points of view regarding universals are designated by historians as realism, conceptualism, and nominalism. Essentially these same three doctrines reappear in twentieth-century surveys of the philosophy of mathematics under the new names logicism, intuitionism, and formalism.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“Why does man freeze to death trying to reach the North Pole? Why does man drive himself to suffer the steam and heat of the Amazon? Why does he stagger his mind with the mathematics of the sky? Once the question mark has arisen in the human brain the answer must be found, if it takes a hundred years. A thousand years.”
—Walter Reisch (1903–1963)