List of British Jewish Scientists - Mathematicians and Statisticians

Mathematicians and Statisticians

  • Abraham Manie Adelstein, statistician
  • Hertha Ayrton, mathematician and engineer
  • Laurence Baxter, statistician
  • Abram Besicovitch, Russian-born British mathematician (karaite)
  • Selig Brodetsky, mathematician and President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews
  • Jacob Bronowski, mathematician & broadcaster
  • Paul Cohn, algebraist
  • H.E. Daniels, statistician
  • Philip Dawid, statistician
  • Arthur Erdelyi, mathematician
  • John Fox, statistician
  • Albrecht Frohlich
  • David Glass, demographer
  • Sir Samuel Goldman, British Government statistician
  • Sydney Goldstein, expert on fluid mechanics
  • Benjamin Gompertz, mathematician
  • Eugene Grebenik, demographer
  • Steven Haberman, professor of actuarial science
  • John Hajnal, demographer (JYB 2005 p215)
  • Hans Heilbronn (JYB 1977, p207)
  • Marie Jahoda, psychologist
  • Thomas Körner, mathematician
  • Ruth Lawrence, mathematician & child prodigy
  • Leone Levi, statistician
  • Kurt Mahler, mathematician (JYB 2005 p214)
  • Sir Claus Moser, statistician
  • Louis Mordell, number theorist
  • Bernhard Neumann, 1959 (JYB 2005 p214)
  • Richard Rado, mathematician
  • Klaus Roth, mathematician, Fields Medal (1958)
  • Bernard Silverman, statistician
  • David Spiegelhalter, statistician (JYB 2007 p. 198)
  • James Joseph Sylvester, mathematician

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