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Jim Stasheff
Jim Stasheff is a mathematician whose 1961 Princeton thesis introduced the A∞-space hierarchy, rediscovered the associahedra, and characterized loop spaces; he taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Jin'ichi Nagumo
Jin'ichi Nagumo (南雲仁一, 1926–1999) was a Japanese applied mathematician and engineer, professor at the University of Tokyo, best known for the 1962 FitzHugh–Nagumo nerve-axon equation.
Jiří Souček
Jiří Souček (1943–2024) was a Czech mathematician born in Prague who worked on analysis and the calculus of variations, coauthoring the two-volume Springer monograph Cartesian Currents in the Calculus of Variations (1998).
Jiro Takeuchi
Jiro Takeuchi (竹内 二郎) is a Japanese mathematician and professor at Tokyo University of Science known for work on the Cauchy problem for Schrödinger-type partial differential operators.
Joachim Lambek
Joachim (Jim) Lambek (1922–2014) was a German-born Canadian mathematician at McGill University who founded the Lambek calculus and became a central figure in category theory.
Joan Birman
Joan Birman (born 1927) is an American mathematician at Barnard College, Columbia University, known for her work on braid groups, mapping class groups, and knot theory.
Joe Harris (mathematician)
Joe Harris, full name Joseph Daniel Harris, is an American algebraic geometer and Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Harvard, known for the Brill-Noether theorem and influential textbooks.
Joel Spencer
Joel Spencer, born 1946, is an American mathematician and Silver Professor Emeritus at NYU's Courant Institute, coauthor of The Probabilistic Method and a direct collaborator of Paul Erdős.
Johan Frederik Steffensen
Johan Frederik Steffensen (1873–1961) was a Danish mathematician and actuary who began as a jurist and became professor of actuarial mathematics at Copenhagen, known for Steffensen's method and inequality.
Johan Jacob Seidel
Johan Jacob Seidel (1919–2001) was a Dutch mathematician who founded the mathematics department of TU Eindhoven and was known for Seidel matrices, switching, and strongly regular graphs.
Johan Jensen (Danish mathematician)
Johan Jensen (1859–1925) was a Danish telephone engineer and self-taught mathematician, chief engineer of the Copenhagen Telephone Company, remembered for Jensen's inequality and Jensen's formula in complex analysis.
Johann Radon
Johann Radon (1887–1956) was an Austrian mathematician known for the Radon transform, which underlies computed tomography, and the Radon–Nikodym theorem, a cornerstone of measure theory and probability.
Johannes Hjelmslev
Johannes Hjelmslev, born Johannes Trolle Petersen, was a Danish mathematician, professor at the University of Copenhagen from 1917, known for his 1907 axiomatic reconstruction of plane geometry.
Johannes Mollerup
Johannes Mollerup (1872–1937) was a Danish mathematician, professor at the Technical University of Denmark from 1916, known for the Bohr–Mollerup theorem and the Danish analysis textbook he wrote with Harald Bohr.
Johannes van der Corput
Johannes Gualtherus van der Corput (1890–1975) was a Dutch analytic number theorist whose method of exponential sums transformed number theory, whose 1935 sequence became the prototype for quasi-Monte Carlo methods, and who founded Amsterdam's Mathematisch Centrum.
John B. Bell
John B. Bell is an American applied mathematician at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, known for numerical methods for partial differential equations and adaptive mesh refinement, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2012.
John C. Harsanyi
John C. Harsanyi (János Harsányi) was a Hungarian-American economist at UC Berkeley who shared the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with John Nash and Reinhard Selten.
John Coleman Moore
John Coleman Moore (1923–2016) was an American algebraic topologist who spent his career at Princeton University and is known for the Eilenberg–Moore spectral sequence and the Milnor–Moore theorem.
John D. Storey
John D. Storey is a statistician and genomicist, professor at Princeton University, known for the q-value and direct approach to false discovery rates in multiple testing.
John Dougall (mathematician)
John Dougall (1867–1960) was a Scottish mathematician, born in Kippen and trained at Glasgow, remembered for Dougall's theorem on hypergeometric series, prize-winning elasticity work, and mathematical publishing.
John E. Ware Jr.
John E. Ware Jr. is an American health outcomes scientist who created the SF-36 Health Survey and is Professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and a National Academy of Medicine member.
John Edward Campbell
John Edward Campbell (1862–1924) was an Irish-born mathematician at Hertford College, Oxford, who began the Campbell–Baker–Hausdorff formula and introduced Lie's theory to Britain through his 1903 treatise.
John Edwin Luecke
John Edwin Luecke is a mathematician at the University of Texas at Austin known for the cyclic surgery theorem and the Gordon–Luecke theorem in knot theory.
John F. Nash Jr.
John F. Nash Jr. was an American mathematician at Princeton University known for the Nash equilibrium in game theory and the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
John Forbes Nash Jr.
John Forbes Nash Jr. (1928–2015) was an American mathematician who proved the Nash equilibrium, made major contributions to geometry, and won the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.
John Fredrick MacGregor
John Fredrick MacGregor is a Canadian chemical engineer and Professor Emeritus at McMaster University, known for pioneering multivariate statistical methods for monitoring and controlling industrial processes.
John Friedlander
John Friedlander (born 1941) is a Canadian analytic number theorist at the University of Toronto, known for proving infinitely many primes of the form a² + b⁴.
John G. Thompson
John G. Thompson is an American mathematician known for the odd-order theorem and the classification of finite simple groups, who won the Fields Medal and the Abel Prize.
John Garnett (mathematician)
John Garnett (John Brady Garnett) is an American mathematician at UCLA known for harmonic analysis, a 1970 analytic capacity counterexample, and the Steele Prize-winning Bounded Analytic Functions.
John Griffiths (Welsh mathematician)
John Griffiths (1837–1916) was a Welsh mathematician from Llangyndeyrn, Carmarthenshire, known for work in analytic geometry, with Griffiths' Theorem and Griffiths Points named for him; he held posts at Jesus College, Oxford.