Mathematician:Mathematicians/Sorted By Birth/1911 - 1920 CE
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- The army of those who have made at least one definite contribution to mathematics as we know it soon becomes a mob as we look back over history; 6,000 or 8,000 names press forward for some word from us to preserve them from oblivion, and once the bolder leaders have been recognised it becomes largely a matter of arbitrary, illogical legislation to judge who of the clamouring multitude shall be permitted to survive and who be condemned to be forgotten.
- -- Eric Temple Bell: Men of Mathematics, 1937, Victor Gollancz, London
$\text {1911}$ – $\text {1920}$
1911
Anthony Perry Morse $($$\text {1911}$ – $\text {1984}$$)$
American mathematician who worked both in analysis, especially measure theory, and in the foundations of mathematics.
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January
Howard Whitley Eves $($$\text {1911}$ – $\text {2004}$$)$
American mathematician, known for his work in geometry and the history of mathematics.
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Dov Jarden $($$\text {1911}$ – $\text {1986}$$)$
Belarussian-born Israeli mathematician, writer and linguist best known for his published works.
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George Joseph Stigler $($$\text {1911}$ – $\text {1991}$$)$
American economist.
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Garrett Birkhoff $($$\text {1911}$ – $\text {1996}$$)$
American mathematician mainly working in mathematical physics and abstract algebra.
Also wrote plenty of text books: his Lattice Theory (1940) is much cited.
The son of George David Birkhoff.
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February
Alexander Kirkland Cairncross $($$\text {1911}$ – $\text {1998}$$)$
British economist.
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Fritz Oberhettinger $($$\text {1911}$ – $\text {1993}$$)$
German mathematician known for his books on Fourier transforms and Bessel functions.
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March
Walter Ledermann $($$\text {1911}$ – $\text {2009}$$)$
German mathematician best known for his work in homology, group theory and number theory.
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John Langshaw Austin $($$\text {1911}$ – $\text {1960}$$)$
English philosopher of language who translated The Foundations of Arithmetic by Gottlob Frege into English.
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April
Walter Warwick Sawyer $($$\text {1911}$ – $\text {2008}$$)$
English mathematician best known for the books he wrote, especially Mathematician's Delight and Prelude to Mathematics.
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May
Theodor Schneider $($$\text {1911}$ – $\text {1988}$$)$
German mathematician best known for providing a proof of the Gelfond-Schneider Theorem.
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John Todd $($$\text {1911}$ – $\text {2007}$$)$
Northern Irish mathematician who was a pioneer in the field of numerical analysis.
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George Szekeres $($$\text {1911}$ – $\text {2005}$$)$
Hungarian, later Australian, mathematician who worked mainly in geometry and combinatorics.
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June
Victor Meally $($$\text {1911}$ – $\text {1986}$$)$
Irish mathematician, philosopher and accountant, best known for being the editor of the Encyclopedia of Ireland.
Made considerable contributions to number theory and recreational mathematics.
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Ernst Witt $($$\text {1911}$ – $\text {1991}$$)$
German mathematician working mainly in the field of quadratic forms and algebraic function fields.
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August
Shizuo Kakutani $($$\text {1911}$ – $\text {2004}$$)$
Japanese-American mathematician, best known for his Kakutani Fixed-Point Theorem.
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October
John William Wrench, Jr. $($$\text {1911}$ – $\text {2009}$$)$
American mathematician working mainly in numerical analysis.
Pioneer of the use of computers for mathematical calculations
Best known now for his work with Daniel Shanks to calculate $\pi$ to $100 \, 000$ decimal places.
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Shiing-Shen Chern $($$\text {1911}$ – $\text {2004}$$)$
Chinese-American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to differential geometry and topology.
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November
Raphael Mitchel Robinson $($$\text {1911}$ – $\text {1995}$$)$
American mathematician who worked on mathematical logic, set theory, geometry, number theory and combinatorics.
One of the early computer pioneers, he implemented a program for the Lucas-Lehmer Test.
In 1952, determined or confirmed the primality of all the Mersenne numbers up to $M_{2304}$.
In the process, he discovered the Mersenne primes $M_{521}, M_{607}, M_{1279}, M_{2203}$ and $M_{2281}$.
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1912
Jagjit Singh $($$\text {1912}$ – $\text {2002}$$)$
Indian mathematician, writer and science popularizer.
Made his career applying his mathematical skills as a director of India's railways.
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January
Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko $($$\text {1912}$ – $\text {1995}$$)$
Soviet mathematician best known for his contributions to the study of probability theory, particularly extreme value theory.
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David Pinhusovich Milman $($$\text {1912}$ – $\text {1982}$$)$
Ukrainian/Israeli mathematician specializing in functional analysis.
Known for his development of functional analysis methods, particularly in operator theory, in close connection with concrete problems coming from mathematical physics, in particular differential equations and normal modes.
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February
Herbert Samuel Zuckerman $($$\text {1912}$ – $\text {1970}$$)$
American mathematician best known for his work in number theory.
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March
Clifford Hugh Dowker $($$\text {1912}$ – $\text {1982}$$)$
Canadian topologist known for his work in point-set topology and also for his contributions in category theory, sheaf theory and knot theory..
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May
Hans Julius Zassenhaus $($$\text {1912}$ – $\text {1991}$$)$
German mathematician who did significant work in abstract algebra, and also pioneered the science of computer algebra.
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June
Arthur Norton Milgram $($$\text {1912}$ – $\text {1961}$$)$
American mathematician who worked on functional analysis, combinatorics, differential geometry, topology, partial differential equations, and Galois theory.
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Alan Mathison Turing $($$\text {1912}$ – $\text {1954}$$)$
English mathematician who is often considered to be the "father of modern computer science".
Famous for his role in cracking the Enigma cipher in World War II, his conception of the Turing machine and the idea of the Turing test.
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Harry Lindgren $($$\text {1912}$ – $\text {1992}$$)$
British-Australian engineer, linguist and amateur mathematician.
Specialised in geometric dissections.
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July
David Gawen Champernowne $($$\text {1912}$ – $\text {2000}$$)$
English economist and mathematician, famous for proving that the number now known as the Champernowne constant is normal with respect to base $10$.
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Tibor Gallai $($$\text {1912}$ – $\text {1992}$$)$
Hungarian mathematician who worked in combinatorics, especially in graph theory.
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Milton Friedman $($$\text {1912}$ – $\text {2006}$$)$
American economist and statistician best known for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and the complexity of stabilization policy.
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August
Ralph Philip Boas, Jr. $($$\text {1912}$ – $\text {1992}$$)$
American mathematician, teacher, and journal editor, working mainly in the fields of real and complex analysis.
Best known for his humorous applications of mathematical theorems to the practical purpose of hunting lions.
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Norman Levinson $($$\text {1912}$ – $\text {1975}$$)$
American mathematician whose major contributions were in the study of Fourier transforms, complex analysis, non-linear differential equations, number theory, and signal processing.
Worked closely with Norbert Wiener in his early career.
In $1974$ he published a paper proving that more than a third of the zeros of the Riemann zeta function lie on the critical line, a result later improved to two fifths by Conrey.
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November
Albert Edward Green $($$\text {1912}$ – $\text {1999}$$)$
British applied mathematician and research scientist in theoretical and applied mechanics.
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December
Jean Grosjean $($$\text {1912}$ – $\text {2006}$$)$
French poet, writer and translator.
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1913
Arne E. Broman $($$\text {1913}$ – $\text {1995}$$)$
Swedish mathematician who primarily contributed to analysis.
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January
Karl Stein $($$\text {1913}$ – $\text {2000}$$)$
German mathematician well known for complex analysis and cryptography.
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March
Ralph Hartzler Fox $($$\text {1913}$ – $\text {1973}$$)$
American mathematician best known for his work in knot theory.
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Paul Erdős $($$\text {1913}$ – $\text {1996}$$)$
Hungarian mathematician known for the vast quantity of work he did (approximately 1500 papers).
Spent his entire life travelling the world looking for interesting mathematical problems to solve.
Interesting to him often meant: easy to state, but difficult to solve.
Perhaps most famous for his widespread collaborations (about 500 collaborators), from which the concept of the Erdős Number emerged.
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May
Alexander McFarlane Mood $($$\text {1913}$ – $\text {2009}$$)$
American mathematician majoring in physics and statistics.
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June
Charles Stanley Ogilvy $($$\text {1913}$ – $\text {2000}$$)$
American mathematician also well-known for being a sailor.
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Paul Julius Oswald Teichmüller $($$\text {1913}$ – $\text {1943}$$)$
German mathematician who introduced quasiconformal mappings and differential geometric methods into complex analysis.
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Ralph Saul Phillips $($$\text {1913}$ – $\text {1998}$$)$
American mathematician known for his contributions to functional analysis, scattering theory, and servomechanisms.
Made major contributions to acoustical scattering theory.
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July
Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy $($$\text {1913}$ – $\text {1998}$$)$
Hungarian mathematician who contributed to the theory of Fourier series and approximation theory.
His most important achievements were made in functional analysis, especially in the theory of Hilbert space operators.
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September
Israel Moiseevich Gelfand $($$\text {1913}$ – $\text {2009}$$)$
Ukrainian mathematician who contributed considerably to many branches of mathematics, including group theory, representation theory and linear algebra.
Did much good work in the field of education.
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Abraham Charnes $($$\text {1913}$ – $\text {1992}$$)$
American mathematician who worked in the area of operations research.
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Samuel Eilenberg $($$\text {1913}$ – $\text {1998}$$)$
Polish-born American mathematician whose main field of activity were homology theory and category theory.
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November
Andrzej Mostowski $($$\text {1913}$ – $\text {1975}$$)$
Polish mathematician, best known for the Mostowski Collapse Lemma.
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December
Henry Martyn Cundy $($$\text {1913}$ – $\text {2005}$$)$
English mathematician best known for his reform of the teaching profession in Britain.
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1914
Leon Jeśmanowicz $($$\text {1914}$ – $\text {1989}$$)$
Polish mathematician working in number theory.
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Michael Nelkon $($$\text {1914}$ – $\text {?}$$)$
British physicist best known for his hugely influential textbooks.
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January
George Brinton Thomas Jr. $($$\text {1914}$ – $\text {2006}$$)$
American mathematician best known for being the author of Calculus and Analytic Geometry.
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Howard Levene $($$\text {1914}$ – $\text {2003}$$)$
American statistician and geneticist best known for developing Levene's test.
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February
Hanna Neumann $($$\text {1914}$ – $\text {1971}$$)$
German-born mathematician active in the field of group theory.
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March
Leonidas Alaoglu $($$\text {1914}$ – $\text {1981}$$)$
Canadian-American mathematician, most noted for his contribution towards the Banach-Alaoglu Theorem.
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April
Daniel John O'Connor $($$\text {1914}$ – $\text {2012}$$)$
American-born philosopher who contributed to the literature of symbolic logic.
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June
Rufus Philip Isaacs $($$\text {1914}$ – $\text {1981}$$)$
American game theorist known for his work on differential games.
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July
William Wager Cooper $($$\text {1914}$ – $\text {2012}$$)$
American operations researcher known for developing the field of linear programming.
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August
Mark Kac $($$\text {1914}$ – $\text {1984}$$)$
Polish American mathematician whose main interests were probability theory and spectral theory.
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September
Robert Osher Schlaifer $($$\text {1914}$ – $\text {1994}$$)$
American statistician who was one of the pioneers of Bayesian decision theory.
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Ky Fan $($$\text {1914}$ – $\text {2010}$$)$
Chinese-born American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to operator and matrix theory, convex analysis and inequalities, linear and nonlinear programming, topology and fixed point theory, and topological groups.
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October
Sze-Tsen Hu $($$\text {1914}$ – $\text {1999}$$)$
Chinese-American mathematician specializing in homotopy theory.
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R.H. Bing $($$\text {1914}$ – $\text {1986}$$)$
American mathematician who worked mainly in the areas of geometric topology and continuum theory.
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Martin Gardner $($$\text {1914}$ – $\text {2010}$$)$
Colossally influential American mathematician and magician best known for the books he wrote (of which there were many) popularizing mathematics and science.
Author of the Mathematical Games column in Scientific American between $1956$ and $1981$. This position was taken over by Douglas R. Hofstadter.
Also contributed a series of "puzzle page" articles for Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in the late 1970's to early 1980's.
Also wrote a column called Notes of a Fringe Watcher (originally Notes of a Psi-Watcher) from 1983 to 2002 for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry's periodical Skeptical Inquirer.
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1915
Milton Abramowitz $($$\text {1915}$ – $\text {1958}$$)$
American mathematician who made his mark co-editing the Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Irene Ann Stegun.
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Thomas H. O'Beirne $($$\text {1915}$ – $\text {?}$$)$
Scottish mathematician and puzzler working in recreational mathematics.
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Henry Wallman $($$\text {1915}$ – $\text {1992}$$)$
American mathematician known for his work in lattice theory, dimension theory, topology, and electronic circuit design.
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January
Maxine Patricia Mary Merrington $($$\text {1915}$ – $\text {2016}$$)$
British statistician and archivist.
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Yuri Vladimirovich Linnik $($$\text {1915}$ – $\text {1972}$$)$
Ukrainian mathematician active in number theory, probability theory and mathematical statistics.
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Herbert Ellis Robbins $($$\text {1915}$ – $\text {2001}$$)$
American mathematician and statistician who did research in topology, measure theory, statistics, and a variety of other fields.
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Horst Feistel $($$\text {1915}$ – $\text {1990}$$)$
German-American cryptographer who worked on the design of ciphers
Initiating research that culminated in the development of the Data Encryption Standard (DES) in the 1970s.
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February
Richard Wesley Hamming $($$\text {1915}$ – $\text {1998}$$)$
American mathematician best known for his work on error-detecting codes.
Thus he started a new field of study within information theory.
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March
Gustave Alfred Arthur Choquet $($$\text {1915}$ – $\text {2006}$$)$
French mathematician whose contributions include work in functional analysis, potential theory, topology and measure theory.
Creating the Choquet theory, the Choquet integral and the theory of capacities.
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Harold Neville Vazeille Temperley $($$\text {1915}$ – $\text {2017}$$)$
English applied mathematician who made numerous contributions to the fields of statistical mechanics, graph theory and the physics of liquids and gases
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Laurent-Moïse Schwartz $($$\text {1915}$ – $\text {2002}$$)$
French mathematician who pioneered the theory of distributions, which gives a well-defined meaning to objects such as the Dirac delta function.
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Kunihiko Kodaira $($$\text {1915}$ – $\text {1997}$$)$
Japanese mathematician known for distinguished work in algebraic geometry and the theory of complex manifolds.
Founder of the Japanese school of algebraic geometers.
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Wolfgang Doeblin $($$\text {1915}$ – $\text {1940}$$)$
French-German mathematician who obtained major results in probability theory.
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April
Daniel Martin $($$\text {1915}$ – $\text {2007}$$)$
British mathematician working mainly as a teacher of calculus.
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Lynn Harold Loomis $($$\text {1915}$ – $\text {1994}$$)$
American mathematician working on analysis.
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June
Nicholas Constantine Metropolis $($$\text {1915}$ – $\text {1999}$$)$
Greek-American physicist who worked on the first nuclear reactors
One of the members of the original staff of fifty scientists working at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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John Wilder Tukey $($$\text {1915}$ – $\text {2000}$$)$
American mathematician working mainly in the field of statistics.
Made contributions in the fields of nonparametric methods, robustness studies and interpretation of computer graphics.
Developed the use of the box plot, box-and-whisker diagrams, the five-number summary and stem-and-leaf displays.
Best known for development of the FFT algorithm.
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August
Robert Henry Sorgenfrey $($$\text {1915}$ – $\text {1996}$$)$
American mathematician who made significant contributions to the field of topology.
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September
Yehoshua Bar-Hillel $($$\text {1915}$ – $\text {1975}$$)$
Austrian-born Israeli philosopher, mathematician, and linguist.
Best known for his pioneering work in machine translation and formal linguistics.
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October
Gail Sellers Young Jr. $($$\text {1915}$ – $\text {1999}$$)$
American mathematician best known in the field of education.
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Ivan Morton Niven $($$\text {1915}$ – $\text {1999}$$)$
Canadian-American mathematician, most noted for solving most of Waring's Problem.
Also notable for Niven numbers and Niven's constant.
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November
Wilfred Kaplan $($$\text {1915}$ – $\text {2007}$$)$
American professor of mathematics whose research focused on dynamical systems, the topology of curve families, complex function theory, and differential equations.
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Bryant Tuckerman $($$\text {1915}$ – $\text {2002}$$)$
American mathematician who discovered, on March $4$th, $1971$, the $24$th Mersenne prime: $2^{19 \, 937} - 1$.
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1916
January
Sidney Siegel $($$\text {1916}$ – $\text {1961}$$)$
American psychologist best known for his work in popularizing non-parametric statistics for use in the behavioral sciences.
Co-developer of the Siegel-Tukey test.
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March
Paul Richard Halmos $($$\text {1916}$ – $\text {2006}$$)$
Hungarian-born mathematician who made fundamental advances in the areas of probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory and functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces).
Also famous for his widely-cited book Naive Set Theory.
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April
Claude Elwood Shannon $($$\text {1916}$ – $\text {2001}$$)$
American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory".
Noted for having founded information theory with a landmark paper, A Mathematical Theory of Communication, published in $1948$.
Produced the first effective design for a chess-playing computer.
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May
Selmer Martin Johnson $($$\text {1916}$ – $\text {1996}$$)$
American mathematician working on number theory and optimisation problems.
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June
Emilie Virginia Haynsworth $($$\text {1916}$ – $\text {1985}$$)$
American mathematician who worked in linear algebra and matrix theory.
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Georg Henrik von Wright $($$\text {1916}$ – $\text {2003}$$)$
Finnish philosopher who did the initial development of the theory of deontic logic.
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September
Anthony Henry Basson $($$\text {1916}$ – $\text {2004}$$)$
English mathematician specialising in symbolic logic.
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Richard Kenneth Guy $($$\text {1916}$ – $\text {2020}$$)$
English mathematician most famous for his work in the fields of game theory, number theory and graph theory.
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October
Nathan Jacob Fine $($$\text {1916}$ – $\text {1994}$$)$
American mathematician who worked on basic hypergeometric series.
Best known for his lecture notes on the subject which were used as a standard, until they were finally published as a book.
Solved the jeep problem in $1946$.
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Robert Dorfman $($$\text {1916}$ – $\text {2002}$$)$
American mathematician who made contributions to the fields of economics, group testing and in the process of coding theory.
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November
Adriaan van Wijngaarden $($$\text {1916}$ – $\text {1987}$$)$
Dutch mathematician and computer scientist known for his contributions to numerical analysis and Van Wijngaarden grammar.
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Roger Apéry $($$\text {1916}$ – $\text {1994}$$)$
Greek-French mathematician most remembered for Apéry's Theorem.
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December
John Leroy Kelley $($$\text {1916}$ – $\text {1999}$$)$
American mathematician best known for his work on topology and functional analysis.
Author of the widely-used and -cited textbook General Topology, and others.
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Irving John Good $($$\text {1916}$ – $\text {2009}$$)$
British mathematician of Polish ancestry who worked as a cryptologist at Bletchley Park with Alan Turing.
Subsequently focused on the design of computers and Bayesian statistics.
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Charles Frederick Mosteller $($$\text {1916}$ – $\text {2006}$$)$
American statistician who was the founding chairman of Harvard's statistics department.
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1917
Ralph Judson Smith $($$\text {1917}$ – $\text {1997}$$)$
American engineer in electronics best known for his books.
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January
David John Finney $($$\text {1917}$ – $\text {2018}$$)$
British statistician who was a pioneer in the development of systematic monitoring of drugs for detection of adverse reactions.
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Daniel Shanks $($$\text {1917}$ – $\text {1996}$$)$
American mathematician who worked primarily in numerical analysis and number theory.
Best known as the first to compute $\pi$ to $100 \, 000$ decimal places.
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Graham Higman $($$\text {1917}$ – $\text {2008}$$)$
English mathematician active in the field of group theory.
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Leonard Gillman $($$\text {1917}$ – $\text {2009}$$)$
American mathematician who worked in set theory and game theory.
Also an accomplished classical pianist.
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February
Georgi Evgen'evich Shilov $($$\text {1917}$ – $\text {1975}$$)$
Russian mathematician, expert in the field of functional analysis, who contributed to the theory of normed rings and generalized functions.
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March
Irving Kaplansky $($$\text {1917}$ – $\text {2006}$$)$
Canadian mathematician who made major contributions to group theory, ring theory, the theory of operator algebras and field theory.
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May
William Thomas Tutte $($$\text {1917}$ – $\text {2002}$$)$
English codebreaker and mathematician working on the foundations of graph theory and matroid theory.
Made a fundamental breakthrough in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, which contributed significantly to the defeat of Germany in the Second World War.
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Edward Norton Lorenz $($$\text {1917}$ – $\text {2008}$$)$
American mathematician and meteorologist who established the theoretical basis of weather and climate predictability, as well as the basis for computer-aided atmospheric physics and meteorology.
Best known as the founder of modern chaos theory.
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June
Atle Selberg $($$\text {1917}$ – $\text {2007}$$)$
Norwegian mathematician known for his work in analytic number theory, and in the theory of automorphic forms.
Instrumental in developing a proof of the Prime Number Theorem. Engaged in a bitter dispute with Paul Erdős over priority.
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July
Patrick Alfred Pierce Moran $($$\text {1917}$ – $\text {1988}$$)$
Australian statistician who established some significant results in probability.
The Moran medal was named in his honour.
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Irving Marmer Copi $($$\text {1917}$ – $\text {2002}$$)$
American philosopher and mathematician best known for his university textbooks.
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September
Kai Lai Chung $($$\text {1917}$ – $\text {2009}$$)$
Chinese American mathematician known for his significant contributions to modern probability theory.
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October
Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande $($$\text {1917}$ – $\text {2020}$$)$
Indian mathematician with distinguished and well-recognized achievements in combinatorial mathematics.
Noted with Raj Chandra Bose and Ernest Tilden Parker for disproving Euler's Conjecture on Orthogonal Latin Squares.
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November
Leonard Jimmie Savage $($$\text {1917}$ – $\text {1971}$$)$
American mathematician who worked on metric and differential geometry, calculus of variations and statistics.
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Elizabeth Leonard Scott $($$\text {1917}$ – $\text {1988}$$)$
American mathematician active in the field of group theory, but more well-known for her work in astronomy.
Also involved (with Jerzy Neyman) in the science of rainmaking by cloud seeding.
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December
Sergei Vasilovich Fomin $($$\text {1917}$ – $\text {1975}$$)$
Russian mathematician best known for his contribution towards the book Introductory Real Analysis.
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Roger Conant Lyndon $($$\text {1917}$ – $\text {1988}$$)$
American mathematician known for his work in group theory.
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1918
Robert Herman Kasriel $($$\text {1918}$ – $\text {2007}$$)$
American mathematician who specialised in topology.
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Marshall Evans Munroe $($$\text {1918}$ – $\text {1997}$$)$
American mathematician working in calculus and analysis.
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Wade Edward Philpott $($$\text {1918}$ – $\text {1985}$$)$
American mathematician and puzzle maker.
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February
Geoffrey Thomas Kneebone $($$\text {1918}$ – $\text {2003}$$)$
British mathematician who worked in geometry, set theory and mathematical logic.
Best known for his collaborative writings with John Greenlees Semple.
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March
Florence Dorfman Jacobson $($$\text {1918}$ – $\text {1996}$$)$
American mathematics educator and education consultant.
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May
Richard Phillips Feynman $($$\text {1918}$ – $\text {1988}$$)$
American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics for which he proposed the parton model.
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Francis John Anscombe $($$\text {1918}$ – $\text {2001}$$)$
English statistician best known for emphasising the importance of randomisation.
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June
Carl-Erik Fröberg $($$\text {1918}$ – $\text {2007}$$)$
Swedish computer scientist and physicist.
One of the pioneers in the field of numerical analysis.
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Yudell Leo Luke $($$\text {1918}$ – $\text {1983}$$)$
American mathematician who worked in many areas including aeronautics and approximation theory.
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July
Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn $($$\text {1918}$ – $\text {2012}$$)$
Dutch mathematician known for his contributions to analysis, number theory, combinatorics and logic.
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Robert Clarke James $($$\text {1918}$ – $\text {2003}$$)$
American mathematician best known for his work in functional analysis.
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October
Abraham Robinson $($$\text {1918}$ – $\text {1974}$$)$
German-American mathematician who is most widely known for development of non-standard analysis.
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December
Leon Mirsky $($$\text {1918}$ – $\text {1983}$$)$
Russian-born mathematician who worked mainly in the fields of number theory, linear algebra and combinatorics.
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Edwin Evariste Moise $($$\text {1918}$ – $\text {1998}$$)$
American mathematician and mathematics education reformer.
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1919
William G. Chinn $($$\text {1919}$ – $\text {2004}$$)$
American mathematician and educator.
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Harold Jacques Dutka $($$\text {1919}$ – $\text {2002}$$)$
American mathematician who was the first to calculate the square root of $2$ to more than one million digits.
Also wrote extensively on the history of mathematics.
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February
Irene Ann Stegun $($$\text {1919}$ – $\text {2008}$$)$
American mathematician who took over the work of co-editing the Handbook of Mathematical Functions from Milton Abramowitz, who died in 1958 before the work was complete.
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Harry Pollard $($$\text {1919}$ – $\text {1985}$$)$
American mathematician noted for his work in celestial mechanics and the $n$-body problem.
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April
Thomas James Willmore $($$\text {1919}$ – $\text {2005}$$)$
British mathematician best known for his work on differential geometry.
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Richard Friederich Arens $($$\text {1919}$ – $\text {2000}$$)$
German-born American mathematician who worked in the fields of functional analysis and topology.
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David Harold Blackwell $($$\text {1919}$ – $\text {2010}$$)$
American mathematician who focused mainly on statistics and game theory.
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May
Raymond Merrill Smullyan $($$\text {1919}$ – $\text {2017}$$)$
American mathematician and logician, noted for the accessibility of his books on logic.
He also was a concert pianist and magician.
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June
Paul Trevier Bateman $($$\text {1919}$ – $\text {2012}$$)$
American number theorist, known for formulating the Bateman-Horn conjecture and the New Mersenne conjecture.
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August
Kenneth Levenberg $($$\text {1919}$ – $\text {1973}$$)$
American statistician and original author of the widely used nonlinear least squares fitting algorithm later improved by Donald W. Marquardt, known as the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm.
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Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin $($$\text {1919}$ – $\text {1984}$$)$
Azerbaijani mathematician noted for his work in topology.
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James Dugundji $($$\text {1919}$ – $\text {1985}$$)$
American mathematician best known for his work in topology.
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September
Derek Frank Lawden $($$\text {1919}$ – $\text {2008}$$)$
New Zealand mathematician of English descent who worked on rocket trajectories and space flight.
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October
George Edward Pelham Box $($$\text {1919}$ – $\text {2013}$$)$
British statistician, who worked in the areas of quality control, time-series analysis, design of experiments, and Bayesian inference.
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Gerhard Ringel $($$\text {1919}$ – $\text {2008}$$)$
German mathematician who was one of the pioneers in the field of graph theory.
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November
Hermann Bondi $($$\text {1919}$ – $\text {2005}$$)$
British-Austrian mathematician and cosmologist.
Best known for developing the steady state model of the universe with Fred Hoyle and Thomas Gold as an alternative to the Big Bang theory.
Contributed to the theory of general relativity and was the first to analyze the inertial and gravitational interaction of negative mass.
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December
Donald Kalish $($$\text {1919}$ – $\text {2000}$$)$
American logician, also known as an activist against the Vietnam war.
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Julia Hall Bowman Robinson $($$\text {1919}$ – $\text {1985}$$)$
American mathematician best known for her work on decision problems and Hilbert's Tenth Problem.
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Ian Naismith Sneddon $($$\text {1919}$ – $\text {2000}$$)$
British applied mathematician who is most noted for his work researching elasticity.
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1920
William Kay Smith $($$\text {1920}$ – $\text {2007}$$)$
American mathematician working in education and real analysis.
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January
Heinz Zemanek $($$\text {1920}$ – $\text {2014}$$)$
Austrian computer pioneer who led the development, from $1954$ to $1958$, of Mailüfterl ("May breeze"), one of the first completely transistorised computers in continental Europe.
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Isaac Asimov $($$\text {1920}$ – $\text {1992}$$)$
Russian-born professor of biochemistry, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books.
One of the most hugely prolific and influential writers of all time.
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John Maynard Smith $($$\text {1920}$ – $\text {2004}$$)$
English theoretical evolutionary biologist and geneticist.
Originally an aeronautical engineer during the Second World War.
Instrumental in the application of game theory to evolution.
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Edwin Hewitt $($$\text {1920}$ – $\text {1999}$$)$
American mathematician known for his work in abstract harmonic analysis.
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March
Robert Earl MacKenzie $($$\text {1920}$ – $\text {2012}$$)$
American mathematician who was attached to the United States navy.
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Jerzy Maria Michał Łoś $($$\text {1920}$ – $\text {1998}$$)$
Polish mathematician, best known for his work on ultraproducts, in particular for Łoś's Theorem.
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April
Donald Cecil Pack $($$\text {1920}$ – $\text {2016}$$)$
British mathematician who lectured at Strathclyde University.
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May
Aimable Robert Jonckheere $($$\text {1920}$ – $\text {2005}$$)$
French psychologist and statistician best known for his work in nonparametric statistics.
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August
William Schumacher Massey $($$\text {1920}$ – $\text {2017}$$)$
American mathematician known for his work in algebraic topology.
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Richard Ernest Bellman $($$\text {1920}$ – $\text {1984}$$)$
American applied mathematician, who introduced dynamic programming in 1953, and important contributions in other fields of mathematics.
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September
Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao $($$\text {b. 1920}$$)$
Indian-American mathematician and statistician.
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John Gilbert Hocking $($$\text {1920}$ – $\text {2011}$$)$
American mathematician working in topology.
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October
Carlton Edward Lemke $($$\text {1920}$ – $\text {2004}$$)$
American mathematician, working in Algebra, Mathematical Programming, Operations Research, and Statistics.
Also contributed to game theory.
Developed the dual simplex method in $1954$, independently from E.M.L. Beale.
With J.T. Howson, Constructed an algorithm in $1964$ for finding Nash equilibria the case of finite two-person games, for which he received the John von Neumann Theory Prize in $1978$.
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November
Claude Ambrose Rogers $($$\text {1920}$ – $\text {2005}$$)$
English mathematician who worked in analysis and geometry.
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Anthony Philip French $($$\text {1920}$ – $\text {2017}$$)$
English professor of physics whose main interest was undergraduate physics education.
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December
Kenneth Eugene Iverson $($$\text {1920}$ – $\text {2004}$$)$
Canadian computer scientist best known for his invention of the computer language APL.
Also known for the notation known as Iverson's convention.
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Victor Abramovich Zalgaller $($$\text {1920}$ – $\text {2020}$$)$
Russian mathematician, working in the fields of geometry and optimization.
Best known for his results on convex polyhedra, linear and dynamic programming, isoperimetry, and differential geometry.
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