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Jean Gaston Darboux
Jean Gaston Darboux (1842–1917) was a French mathematician who worked in differential geometry and analysis, and after whom the Darboux integral is named. Born in Nîmes, he held the chair of higher geometry in Paris.
Jean Leray
Jean Leray (1906–1998) was a French mathematician who founded weak solutions of the Navier–Stokes equations and sheaf theory, holding a Collège de France chair from 1947 to 1978.
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (1957–2016) was a French mathematician in dynamical systems, known for work on circle maps and small divisors, who received the 1994 Fields Medal.
Jean-François Le Gall
Jean-François Le Gall (born 1959) is a French probabilist and professor at Université Paris-Saclay, known for the Brownian snake, random trees, and the Brownian map.
Jean-Jacques Moreau
Jean-Jacques Moreau (1923–2014) was a French mathematician and mechanician, professor at Montpellier from 1952, who discovered helicity in fluids, founded infinite-dimensional convex analysis, and created nonsmooth mechanics.
Jean-Louis Koszul
Jean-Louis Koszul (1921–2018) was a French mathematician known for the Koszul complex, Koszul duality, and the Koszul connection, who worked in homological algebra and differential geometry at Strasbourg and Grenoble and belonged to the Bourbaki group.
Jean-Louis Nicolas
Jean-Louis Nicolas is a French number theorist at Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, best known for a 1983 theorem exactly equivalent to the Riemann hypothesis and for work on highly composite numbers.
Jean-Louis Verdier
Jean-Louis Verdier was a French mathematician and student of Alexander Grothendieck who introduced triangulated categories and Verdier duality, co-authored SGA 4, and led the Société Mathématique de France from 1984.
Jean-Marc Fontaine
Jean-Marc Fontaine (1944–2019) was a French mathematician, a founder of p-adic Hodge theory, known for his period rings, the Fontaine–Mazur conjecture, and proving no abelian variety over the rationals has good reduction everywhere.
Jean-Michel Bismut
Jean-Michel Bismut, born 1948 in Lisbon, is a French mathematician at Université Paris-Saclay known for probability theory, the index theorem, the hypoelliptic Laplacian, and the 2021 Shaw Prize.
Jean-Michel Lasry
Jean-Michel Lasry is a French mathematician and professor at Paris-Dauphine who, with Pierre-Louis Lions, founded mean field game theory in 2006 and co-founded the energy-data company Kayrros in 2015.
Jean-Pierre Demailly
Jean-Pierre Demailly (1957–2022) was a French mathematician and professor at Université Grenoble-Alpes, known for his holomorphic Morse inequalities, L2 vanishing theorems, and the freely available book Complex analytic and differential geometry.
Jean-Pierre Kahane
Jean-Pierre Kahane (1926–2017) was a French mathematician who worked on harmonic analysis and probability, best known for random series of functions, the Khintchine–Kahane inequalities, and Gaussian multiplicative chaos.
Jean-Pierre Serre
Jean-Pierre Serre, born in 1926, is a French mathematician who reshaped topology, algebraic geometry, and number theory, winning the 1954 Fields Medal and the first Abel Prize in 2003.
Jeff Cheeger
Jeff Cheeger, born 1943 in Brooklyn, is an American mathematician at NYU's Courant Institute known for his finiteness theorem, the splitting theorem, and Ricci-limit space theory.
Jeff Dinitz
Jeff Dinitz, also known as Jeffrey H. Dinitz, is a mathematician at the University of Vermont known for the Dinitz conjecture, proved by Fred Galvin, and co-editor of the CRC Handbook of Combinatorial Designs.
Jeff Kahn (mathematician)
Jeffry Kahn, also known as Jeff Kahn, is a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Rutgers University working in discrete mathematics, graph theory, and probabilistic methods.
Jeff Paris (mathematical logician)
Jeffrey B. Paris is a mathematical logician and Emeritus Professor at the University of Manchester, known for the Paris–Harrington and Kirby–Paris theorems on Peano Arithmetic.
Jeffrey Lagarias
Jeffrey Lagarias is an American number theorist at the University of Michigan who spent thirty years at Bell Labs, known for work on the 3x+1 problem, the Riemann hypothesis, and Keller's conjecture.
Jennifer Tour Chayes
Jennifer Tour Chayes is an applied mathematician and computer scientist known for co-founding graph limits, who led three Microsoft Research labs before joining UC Berkeley in 2020.
Jerald Ericksen
Jerald Ericksen (1924–2021) was an American mathematician and University of Minnesota professor, a central figure in the postwar revival of continuum mechanics who formulated the Ericksen–Leslie theory of liquid crystals.
Jérémie Szeftel
Jérémie Szeftel is a French mathematician and CNRS Research Director at Sorbonne Université who works on nonlinear partial differential equations, known for proving the stability of Schwarzschild and Kerr black holes.
Jerzy Łoś
Jerzy Łoś (1920–1998) was a Polish mathematician and logician who defined the ultraproduct construction and proved the fundamental Łoś theorem, with further results in algebra, probability, and economics.
Jerzy Neyman
Jerzy Neyman (1894–1981) was a Polish statistician who co-created the Neyman–Pearson theory of hypothesis testing, introduced confidence intervals, founded the statistics department at Berkeley, and received the 1968 National Medal of Science.
Jesse Douglas
Jesse Douglas (1897–1965) was an American mathematician who solved the Plateau problem, earning one of the two first Fields Medals in 1936 and later teaching at City College of New York.
Jessica Fridrich
Jessica Fridrich, born 1964 in Ostrava, Czech Republic, is a Binghamton University professor known for steganography and camera forensics and for systematizing the CFOP speedcubing method.
Jessie MacWilliams
Florence Jessie Collinson MacWilliams (1917–1990) was a British-born mathematician at Bell Laboratories whose 1963 MacWilliams identities became a standard coding theory tool; she also co-wrote the field's encyclopedic 1977 textbook.
Jie Shen
Jie Shen (沈捷, born 1959) is a Chinese numerical analyst known for spectral-Galerkin methods for partial differential equations and the scalar auxiliary variable approach for gradient flows.
Jim Pitman
Jim Pitman, born 1949 in Tasmania, is a probability theorist and Berkeley professor emeritus known for the Pitman transform, the Pitman–Yor process, and random partitions.
Jim Simons (mathematician)
Jim Simons, also known as James Harris Simons, was an American mathematician known for Chern–Simons theory who founded Renaissance Technologies and, with his wife Marilyn, the Simons Foundation.