Mathematics
- Abraham Adrian Albert –
- László Babai – Known for work in computer science and discrete mathematics, especially for his work on interactive proof systems. Gödel Prize winner.
- Alexander A. Beilinson –
- Gilbert Ames Bliss –
- Oskar Bolza –
- Luis Caffarelli – World leader in the field of partial differential equations.
- Alberto Calderón – Cofounded the Chicago school of mathematical analysis. Winner of Bôcher Memorial Prize, the Wolf Prize, and the National Medal of Science.
- Arthur Byron Coble –
- Shiing-shen Chern – One of the most influential figures in differential geometry. Famous for Chern classes. National Medal of Science and Wolf Prize winner.
- Leonard Eugene Dickson – First recipient of the Cole Prize in algebra.
- Vladimir Drinfeld – Fields Medal Winner.
- Charles Fefferman – Received full professorship at the University of Chicago at age 22, making him the youngest ever appointed in the United States. Fields Medal Winner.
- Victor Ginzburg – Known for his works in geometric representation theory.
- George Glauberman –
- Paul Halmos – Noted mathematician and mathematical expositor.
- Israel Herstein –
- Lars Hörmander – Fields Medal Winner.
- Irving Kaplansky –
- John L. Kelley –
- Serge Lang –
- William Lawvere – Known for his work in category theory, topos theory, and the philosophy of mathematics.
- Saunders Mac Lane – Cofounder of category theory.
- J. Peter May – Algebraic topologist.
- E. H. Moore –
- Robert Lee Moore –
- Ngô Bảo Châu – Fields Medal winner.
- Andrei Okounkov – Former Dickson Instructor in Mathematics and the College. Fields Medal winner.
- Daniel Quillen – Former Dickson Instructor in Mathematics and the College. Fields Medal winner.
- Paul Sally – Influential mathematics educator.
- Irving Segal –
- Robert Soare – Known for work in mathematical logic.
- Stephen Smale – Fields Medal and Wolf Prize winner.
- Norman Steenrod – Leading topologist.
- Marshall Stone –
- André Weil – Known for seminal work in number theory and algebraic geometry. Leader of influential Bourbaki group. Fields Medal and Wolf Prize winner.
- Efim Zelmanov – Fields Medal Winner.
- Antoni Zygmund – One of the most influential mathematicians in the field of analysis in the 20th century. Cofounder, with student Calderón, of the famed Chicago school of mathematical analysis.
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Famous quotes containing the word mathematics:
“In mathematics he was greater
Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater:
For he, by geometric scale,
Could take the size of pots of ale;
Resolve, by sines and tangents straight,
If bread and butter wanted weight;
And wisely tell what hour o’ th’ day
The clock doth strike, by algebra.”
—Samuel Butler (1612–1680)
“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)
“It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)