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Andrzej Ehrenfeucht
Andrzej Ehrenfeucht is a mathematician and computer scientist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for the Ehrenfeucht–Fraïssé games in model theory.
Andrzej Mostowski
Andrzej Mostowski (1913–1975) was a Polish mathematician and logician of the Warsaw school, known for the Mostowski collapse and independence proofs about the axiom of choice.
Andrzej Schinzel
Andrzej Schinzel (1937–2021) was a Polish number theorist and member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, best known for Schinzel's Hypothesis H on prime values of polynomials.
Anil Kumar Bhattacharya
Anil Kumar Bhattacharya, also spelled Bhattacharyya (1915–1996), was an Indian statistician whose 1943 measure of divergence between populations survives as the Bhattacharyya distance, used in statistics, computer vision, and machine learning.
Anil Nerode
Anil Nerode, born 1932, is an American mathematician and logician who joined Cornell University in 1959 and is best known for the Myhill–Nerode theorem and hybrid systems.
Anthony Morse
Anthony Perry Morse (1911–1984) was an American mathematician at the University of California, Berkeley, who worked in analysis and measure theory and created Morse–Kelley set theory.
Anthony W. Knapp
Anthony W. Knapp is an American mathematician known for his work on the representation theory of semisimple Lie groups and for graduate textbooks that won the 1997 Steele Prize.
Antoine Joux
Antoine Joux is a French cryptographer known for the 2004 multicollision attack on iterated hash functions, co-invention of pairing-based cryptography, and discrete-logarithm algorithms; he is a researcher at CISPA in Saarbrücken.
Antoni Zygmund
Antoni Zygmund (1900–1992) was a Polish-born American mathematician in harmonic analysis who spent most of his career at the University of Chicago, wrote Trigonometric Series, and received the 1986 National Medal of Science.
Antonio Galves
Antonio Galves (1947–2023) was a Brazilian probabilist and professor at the University of São Paulo, best known for the Galves–Löcherbach model of spiking neural networks.
Antonius Dieker
Antonius (Ton) Dieker is a Dutch applied probabilist known for exact simulation of stochastic processes, winner of a 2013 PECASE award and later a Columbia professor.
Antti Kupiainen
Antti Kupiainen (born 1954) is a Finnish mathematical physicist, professor at the University of Helsinki, known for rigorous renormalization group methods and Liouville conformal field theory.
Archibald Read Richardson
Archibald Read Richardson (1881–1954) was a British mathematician who discovered immanants, matrix invariants generalizing the determinant, and held the Chair of Mathematics at Swansea from 1920 to 1940.
Archimedes (Ἀρχιμήδης)
Archimedes (Ἀρχιμήδης), c. 287 to 212 BC, was a Greek mathematician, physicist, and engineer of Syracuse in Sicily, regarded as the greatest mathematician of antiquity.
Arend Heyting
Arend Heyting (1898–1980) was a Dutch mathematician and logician at the University of Amsterdam who gave Brouwer's intuitionism its first systematic formalization in 1930 and wrote Intuitionism: An Introduction.
Arjen K. Lenstra
Arjen K. Lenstra is a Dutch computational number theorist and cryptographer, co-inventor of the LLL lattice algorithm, who led record factorizations including RSA-129 and RSA-768 and helped set public-key key-size standards.
Arkadi Nemirovski
Arkadi Nemirovski is an applied mathematician and John Hunter Chair professor at Georgia Tech since 2005, known for the ellipsoid method, interior-point methods, and robust optimization, with honors including the 2019 Norbert Wiener Prize.
Armand Borel
Armand Borel (1923–2003) was a Swiss mathematician at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton known for his work on Lie groups, algebraic groups, and arithmetic groups.
Arnaud Denjoy
Arnaud Denjoy was a French mathematician known for the Denjoy integral, which reconstructs a function from any derivative, and for a foundational theorem on circle dynamics.
Arne Beurling
Arne Beurling (1905–1986) was a Swedish mathematician, professor at Uppsala and later the Institute for Advanced Study, who broke the German Geheimschreiber cipher by hand in 1940.
Arnold Droz-Farny
Arnold Droz-Farny, born Arnold Droz (1856–1912), was a Swiss mathematician and schoolteacher at Porrentruy known for the Droz-Farny line theorem, published without proof in 1899.
Arnold S. Shapiro
Arnold S. Shapiro, full name Arnold Samuel Shapiro, is a mathematician in algebraic topology who took a 1950 University of Chicago doctorate under André Weil.
Arnold Scholz
Arnold Scholz (1904–1942) was a German number theorist in Berlin and Kiel known for the Scholz reflection theorem, the Scholz–Reichardt theorem, and a 1933 conjecture on cubic fields still open.
Arnold Schönhage
Arnold Schönhage is a German mathematician and computer scientist whose 1971 algorithm with Volker Strassen for multiplying large integers held the speed record for almost 35 years.
Arnold Walfisz
Arnold Walfisz (1892–1962) was a Polish analytic number theorist who studied under Edmund Landau in Göttingen, co-founded Acta Arithmetica, and founded a Georgian school of number theory in Tbilisi.
Arthur Byron Coble
Arthur Byron Coble (1878–1966) was an American algebraic geometer, professor at the University of Illinois from 1918 to 1947 and president of the American Mathematical Society in 1933–34.
Arthur Cayley
Arthur Cayley (1821–1895) was a British mathematician who created matrix algebra, gave the first modern definition of a group, and founded invariant theory; he was Sadleirian Professor at Cambridge from 1863.
Arthur Cohn
Arthur Cohn (1894–1940) was a German mathematician and student of Issai Schur, remembered for an irreducibility criterion for polynomials formed from the digits of a prime.
Arthur Erdélyi
Arthur Erdélyi (1908–1977) was a Hungarian-born British mathematician, a leading authority on special functions and asymptotic analysis who directed the five-volume Bateman Manuscript Project at Caltech.
Arthur Geoffrey Walker
Arthur Geoffrey Walker (1909–2001), known as Geoffrey, was a British mathematician who independently proved the Robertson–Walker metric is the most general spacetime for an expanding universe.