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George E. P. Box
George E. P. Box (1919–2013) was a British statistician known for the Box–Jenkins method, Box–Cox transformations, and the phrase "all models are wrong, but some are useful."
George F. Carrier
George F. Carrier (1918–2002) was an American applied mathematician and engineer at Brown and Harvard, known for work on fluid mechanics, combustion, and tsunami run-up theory.
George Frederick James Temple
George Frederick James Temple (1901–1992) was a British applied mathematician who rose from insurance clerk to Oxford's Sedleian Professor and ended life as a Benedictine priest.
George G. Lorentz
George G. Lorentz (1910–2006) was a Russian-born American mathematician and a founder of modern approximation theory, known for the function spaces called Lorentz spaces and books like Approximation of Functions.
George Gasper
George Gasper, born 1939, is an American mathematician and Northwestern University professor emeritus known for the Askey–Gasper inequality and the standard reference book Basic Hypergeometric Series, written with Mizan Rahman.
George Karniadakis
George Em Karniadakis is a Cretan-born applied mathematician who joined Brown University in 1994, pioneered physics-informed neural networks in 2018, and won the 2021 SIAM/ACM Prize.
George Kempf
George Kempf was an American algebraic geometer who earned his Ph.D. at Columbia in 1970, proved the instability and Kempf–Ness theorems, and completed Mumford's geometric invariant theory program.
George Kingsley Zipf
George Kingsley Zipf (1902–1950) was a Harvard linguist who formulated Zipf's law, the inverse rank–frequency pattern of word use, and spent his career explaining it through the principle of least effort.
George Lusztig
George Lusztig, born Gheorghe Lusztig, is a Romanian-born American mathematician and MIT professor emeritus known for the Kazhdan–Lusztig polynomials, Deligne–Lusztig theory, and canonical bases, winning the 2014 Shaw Prize and 2022 Wolf Prize.
George Mackey
George Whitelaw Mackey (1916–2006) was an American mathematician at Harvard whose work joined group representation theory, ergodic theory, and the mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics.
George Marsaglia
George Marsaglia (1924–2011) was an American mathematician and statistician who shaped modern random number generation through the 1968 planes theorem, the xorshift and multiply-with-carry generators, and the Diehard battery of randomness tests.
George Mostow
George Mostow (1923–2017) was an American mathematician at Yale University known for the strong rigidity theorems, which show certain symmetric spaces are determined by their fundamental groups.
George Nemhauser
George Nemhauser (born 1937) is an American operations researcher and Institute Emeritus Professor at Georgia Tech whose work spans integer optimization, airline scheduling, and Major League Baseball scheduling.
George Osborn (mathematician)
George Osborn (1864–1932) was an English schoolmaster and mathematician, Senior Physics Master at The Leys School in Cambridge, whose 1902 Mathematical Gazette note gave his name to Osborn's rule.
George Pólya
George Pólya (György Pólya, 1887–1985) was a Hungarian-born mathematician at ETH Zürich and Stanford who proved the random walk theorem and wrote How to Solve It.
George Salmon
George Salmon (1819–1904) was an Irish mathematician and Anglican theologian at Trinity College Dublin, Provost from 1888, known for proving a cubic surface contains exactly 27 lines.
George Szekeres
George Szekeres (1911–2005) was a Hungarian-born Australian mathematician who laid foundations of Ramsey theory with the 1935 Erdős–Szekeres theorem and co-created the Kruskal–Szekeres coordinates for black holes, working at Adelaide and UNSW.
George Udny Yule
George Udny Yule (1871–1951) was a British statistician who worked under Karl Pearson and at Cambridge, pioneering regression-based correlation, Yule's Q, Simpson's paradox, and the Yule–Walker equations.
George W. Snedecor
George W. Snedecor, also known as George Waddel Snedecor, was an American statistician who built the first US statistical laboratory at Iowa State and wrote Statistical Methods (1937).
George W. Whitehead
George W. Whitehead (George William Whitehead Jr., 1918–2004) was an American mathematician who taught at MIT from 1949 to 1985 and is known for the J-homomorphism in algebraic topology.
Georges Bouligand
Georges Bouligand (1889–1979) was a French mathematician who worked in analysis, geometry, and topology, taught at the Sorbonne, and introduced the box-counting, or Minkowski–Bouligand, dimension in 1928.
Georges de Rham
Georges de Rham (1903–1990) was a Swiss mathematician, professor at Lausanne and Geneva, whose 1931 thesis proved de Rham's theorem and who created de Rham cohomology and the theory of currents.
Georges Fontené
Georges Fontené (1848–1923) was a French mathematician and Paris school inspector known for the Rouché-Fontené theorem on linear equations, and for work on hyperspace geometry and Poncelet's theorem.
Georges Glaeser
Georges Glaeser (1918–2002) was a French mathematician and educator who worked in analysis, proving the Glaeser inequality and a 1963 theorem on composing differentiable functions, before directing the IREM of Strasbourg.
Georges Reeb
Georges Reeb (1920–1993) was a French mathematician from Alsace who founded foliation theory, proving Reeb's theorem and creating the Reeb graph and foliation of the 3-sphere.
Georgios C. Papanicolaou
George C. Papanicolaou is an American applied mathematician at Stanford University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2000, known for waves and diffusion in random media and financial mathematics.
Georgiy Shilov
Georgiy Shilov (Георгий Евгеньевич Шилов, 1917–1975) was a Soviet mathematician at Moscow State University who made foundational contributions to commutative Banach algebra theory and generalized functions.
Georgy Adelson-Velsky
Georgy Adelson-Velsky, full name Georgy Maksimovich Adelson-Velsky, was a Soviet and Israeli mathematician who co-invented the AVL tree and led Kaissa, winner of the first World Computer Chess Championship in 1974.
Georgy Voronoy
Georgy Voronoy (1868–1908) was a mathematician of the Russian Empire, born in Ukraine, who created Voronoi diagrams and co-founded the geometry of numbers with Hermann Minkowski.
Gerald G. Brown
Gerald G. Brown is an American operations researcher and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2008.