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Ivo Babuška
Ivo Babuška (1926–2023) was a Czech-American mathematician who established the mathematical foundations of the finite element method, leaving Czechoslovakia after the 1968 Soviet invasion for the University of Maryland and later UT Austin.
J. A. Todd
J. A. Todd, full name John Arthur Todd (1908–1994), was an English mathematician at Cambridge known for the Todd genus, Todd class, and Todd–Coxeter algorithm.
J. Barkley Rosser
J. Barkley Rosser (1907–1989) was an American logician and mathematician who in 1936 strengthened Gödel's first incompleteness theorem to require only simple consistency, and later directed computing institutes at UCLA and Wisconsin.
J. Ernest Wilkins Jr.
J. Ernest Wilkins Jr. was an American mathematician who joined the Manhattan Project at 21 and became the second African American member of the National Academy of Engineering.
J. H. C. Whitehead
J. H. C. Whitehead, full name John Henry Constantine Whitehead, was a British mathematician and a founder of modern algebraic topology, best known for the CW complex and the Whitehead theorem.
J. Howard Redfield
J. Howard Redfield (1879–1944) was an American engineer whose single 1927 paper established the Pólya–Redfield enumeration theorem, anticipating results usually credited to George Pólya by a decade.
J. Michael Harrison
J. Michael Harrison (John Michael Harrison, born 1944) is an operations researcher who spent 1970 to 2011 at Stanford, known for Brownian networks and equivalent martingale measures in option pricing.
J. Peter May
J. Peter May, born in 1939, is an American algebraic topologist at the University of Chicago known for the recognition theorem for iterated loop spaces, the little-cubes operads, and influential textbooks.
J. Tinsley Oden
J. Tinsley Oden (1936–2023) was an American engineer and mathematician at UT Austin, widely known as the founder of computational mechanics and namesake of its Oden Institute.
J. W. S. Cassels
J. W. S. Cassels, also known as John William Scott Cassels, was a British number theorist who was Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics at Cambridge from 1967 to 1984.
Jaak Peetre
Jaak Peetre (1935–2019) was an Estonian-born Swedish mathematician who, with Jacques-Louis Lions, co-created the real interpolation method of Banach spaces and proved Peetre's theorem on local operators.
Jack E. McLaughlin
Jack E. McLaughlin (1923–2001) was an American mathematician at the University of Michigan who discovered the McLaughlin group, one of the 26 sporadic finite simple groups.
Jack Edmonds
Jack Edmonds, born 1934, is an American mathematician and computer scientist who founded modern combinatorial optimization at the National Bureau of Standards, creating the blossom algorithm for maximum matching.
Jack Kiefer (statistician)
Jack Carl Kiefer (1924–1981) was an American mathematical statistician who spent 28 years at Cornell, then joined Berkeley, and introduced the Kiefer–Wolfowitz algorithm and optimal design theory.
Jack van Lint
Jack van Lint (1932–2004) was an Indonesian-born Dutch mathematician, professor at Eindhoven University of Technology, known for proving which perfect codes exist, the van Lint–MacWilliams conjecture, and influential textbooks.
Jacob Levitzki
Jacob Levitzki (1904–1956) was an Israeli mathematician, born in Ukraine, who founded algebra research in Israel, proved central nilpotence theorems in ring theory, and won the first Israel Prize for Exact Sciences in 1954.
Jacob Lurie
Jacob Lurie is an American mathematician at the Institute for Advanced Study known for derived algebraic geometry, infinity-category theory, and his proof of the cobordism hypothesis.
Jacob Lüroth
Jacob Lüroth (1844–1910) was a German mathematician and professor at Freiburg known for Lüroth's theorem, the Lüroth quartic, and the Lüroth problem on unirational varieties.
Jacob Palis
Jacob Palis (1940–2025) was a Brazilian mathematician at IMPA in Rio de Janeiro, known for work on dynamical systems, the Palis–Smale stability conjecture, and the 2010 Balzan Prize.
Jacob T. Schwartz
Jacob T. Schwartz (1930–2009) was an American mathematician and computer scientist at NYU's Courant Institute, known for the treatise Linear Operators, the Dunford–Schwartz theorem, and the SETL programming language.
Jacob Tsimerman
Jacob Tsimerman (born 1988) is a Canadian number theorist at the University of Toronto, known for proving the André–Oort conjecture and winning the 2026 Fields Medal.
Jacques Dixmier
Jacques Dixmier, born 1924 in Saint-Étienne, is a French mathematician whose monographs on von Neumann and C-algebras defined operator algebra theory; he was a Bourbaki member and Alain Connes's teacher.
Jacques Hadamard
Jacques Hadamard (1865–1963) was a French mathematician who proved the prime number theorem in 1896, introduced Hadamard matrices, and shaped the theory of well-posed problems.
Jacques Herbrand
Jacques Herbrand (1908–1931) was a French mathematician and logician whose 1930 thesis yielded Herbrand's theorem, a foundation of automated theorem proving, and ten papers on class field theory.
Jacques Neveu
Jacques Neveu (1932–2016) was a Belgian-born French probabilist, considered one of the founders of modern probability theory, who directed the Laboratoire de Probabilités at Paris VI.
Jacques Tits
Jacques Tits (1930–2021) was a Belgian-born French mathematician who introduced Tits buildings, held the Chair of Group Theory at the Collège de France, and won the 2008 Abel Prize for shaping modern group theory.
Jacques-Louis Lions
Jacques-Louis Lions (1928–2001) was a French mathematician who worked on partial differential equations, control theory, and numerical analysis, holding a Collège de France chair from 1973 to 1998.
Jakob Nielsen (Danish mathematician)
Jakob Nielsen (1890–1959) was a Danish mathematician who helped found combinatorial group theory and surface topology, and introduced Nielsen fixed point theory and Nielsen transformations.
James A. Sethian
James A. Sethian, born 1954, is an American applied mathematician at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory known for the level-set method and fast marching methods.
James A. Yorke
James A. Yorke, born 1941, is an American mathematician at the University of Maryland who coined the term "chaos" and helped found chaos theory in 1975.