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James Alexander Green
James Alexander Green, known as Sandy, was a British mathematician who introduced the equivalence relations on semigroups known as Green's relations and became a leading figure in the representation theory of finite groups.
James Arthur (scientist)
James Grieg Arthur, born 1944 in Hamilton, Ontario, is a Canadian mathematician at the University of Toronto known for the Arthur–Selberg trace formula and the endoscopic classification of automorphic representations.
James Baldwin Carrell
James Baldwin Carrell is a mathematician and professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia whose research centers on algebraic transformation groups, algebraic geometry, and Lie theory.
James Berger (statistician)
James Berger is an American statistician known for pioneering work in Bayesian analysis, decision theory, and uncertainty quantification, a National Academy of Sciences member and Duke professor.
James Cooley
James Cooley (1926–2016) was an American applied mathematician who spent his career at IBM's Watson Research Center and co-invented the fast Fourier transform with John Tukey in 1965.
James Dugundji
James Dugundji (1919–1985) was a mathematician who spent his career at the University of Southern California, known for the 1951 Dugundji extension theorem and his 1966 textbook Topology.
James H. Bramble
James H. Bramble (1930–2021) was an American numerical analyst who helped build the mathematical theory of finite element and multigrid methods, ending his career as a Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University.
James H. Wilkinson
James H. Wilkinson, also known as James Hardy Wilkinson, was an English numerical analyst who developed backward error analysis, guided eigenvalue algorithm development, and won the 1970 Turing Award.
James J. Stoker
James J. Stoker was an American applied mathematician and engineer who directed the Courant Institute at New York University from 1958 to 1966 and studied water waves.
James Joseph Sylvester
James Joseph Sylvester (1814–1897) was a British mathematician who, with Arthur Cayley, cofounded invariant theory, worked on matrix theory and number theory, and coined algebraic terms including "matrix."
James Lighthill
James Lighthill (1924–1998) was a British applied mathematician who founded aeroacoustics, the study of sound generated by fluid flow, and held the Lucasian chair at Cambridge.
James M. Robins
James M. Robins, known as Jamie Robins, is an American physician, epidemiologist, and biostatistician at Harvard who founded modern causal inference and created the g-methods.
James Maynard (mathematician)
James Maynard (born 1987) is a British analytic number theorist, Professor of Number Theory at Oxford, known for proving small and large gaps between primes and winning the 2022 Fields Medal.
James McKernan
James McKernan, born in London in 1964, is a British algebraic geometer at UC San Diego known for proving the existence of flips in all dimensions.
James Mercer (mathematician)
James Mercer (1883–1932) was an English mathematician at Cambridge, bracketed Senior Wrangler in 1907, whose 1909 memoir introduced positive definite kernels and proved Mercer's theorem, now central to kernel methods in machine learning.
James Serrin
James Serrin (1926–2012) was an American applied mathematician at the University of Minnesota whose work shaped quasilinear elliptic regularity theory, Navier–Stokes uniqueness theory, and the foundations of thermodynamics.
James Waddell Alexander II
James Waddell Alexander II (1888–1971) was an American topologist at Princeton and the Institute for Advanced Study, best known for the Alexander polynomial in knot theory.
James Whitbread Lee Glaisher
James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (1848–1928) was an English mathematician and astronomer at Trinity College, Cambridge, who published nearly 400 papers and edited two mathematical journals for over half a century.
Jan Arnoldus Schouten
Jan Arnoldus Schouten (1883–1971) was a Dutch mathematician who systematized tensor analysis in Ricci-Calculus, independently discovered the Levi-Civita connection, and named the Schouten tensor and Schouten–Nijenhuis bracket.
Jan Mycielski
Jan Mycielski (1932–2025) was a Polish mathematician who worked in graph theory, set theory, and logic, known for the Mycielskian and the axiom of determinacy, and taught at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Jan Śleszyński
Jan Śleszyński (1854–1931) was a Polish mathematician and logician who proved the Śleszyński–Pringsheim theorem and gave the first rigorous proof of a restricted central limit theorem.
János Kollár
János Kollár, born 1956 in Budapest, Hungary, is a Hungarian-American algebraic geometer and Donner Professor at Princeton University, known for the minimal model program, rationally connected varieties, and moduli theory.
János Komlós (mathematician)
János Komlós, born 1942 in Budapest, is a Hungarian-American mathematician and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University known for the KMT strong approximation, the AKS sorting network, and the Komlós conjecture in discrepancy theory.
Jarl Waldemar Lindeberg
Jarl Waldemar Lindeberg (1876–1932) was a Finnish mathematician who spent his career at the University of Helsinki and proved the central limit theorem under the Lindeberg condition.
Jaroslav Kurzweil
Jaroslav Kurzweil, born in Prague in 1926, was a Czech mathematician whose 1957 Riemann-type definition of the gauge integral, the Kurzweil–Henstock integral, generalized the Lebesgue integral.
Javad Lavaei
Javad Lavaei is an Iranian-American control theorist and optimization researcher who is an associate professor at UC Berkeley and a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award.
Jean Bourgain
Jean Bourgain (1954–2018) was a Belgian mathematician who reshaped Fourier analysis, ergodic theory, and nonlinear partial differential equations, winning the Fields Medal in 1994 while at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
Jean Céa
Jean Céa (1932–2024) was a French mathematician specializing in optimization and numerical analysis, known for Céa's lemma and for building applied mathematics at the University of Nice and founding CIMPA.
Jean Dieudonné
Jean Dieudonné (1906–1992) was a French mathematician, a founding member and principal writer of the Bourbaki group, known for work in topology and classical groups.
Jean Favard
Jean Favard (1902–1965) was a French mathematician at the Sorbonne and École Polytechnique whose name marks central results of approximation theory, including the Favard constants.