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Shigeru Mizohata
Shigeru Mizohata, publishing as Sigeru Mizohata, was a Japanese mathematician at Kyoto University who worked on the Cauchy problem, the Lax–Mizohata theorem, weakly hyperbolic equations, and the Mizohata–Takeuchi conjecture.
Shiing-Shen Chern
Shiing-Shen Chern (陈省身) was a Chinese differential geometer known for Chern classes and Chern–Simons theory, a Berkeley professor who founded mathematics institutes on both sides of the Pacific.
Shikao Ikehara
Shikao Ikehara (池原止戈夫, 1904–1984) was a Japanese mathematician who proved the Wiener–Ikehara theorem in 1931 as a doctoral student of Norbert Wiener at MIT; it remains a short route to the prime number theorem.
Shimshon Amitsur
Shimshon Amitsur, born Shimshon Kaplan (1921–1994), was an Israeli mathematician at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who shaped ring theory and won the first Israel Prize for exact sciences.
Shing-Tung Yau (丘成桐)
Shing-Tung Yau (丘成桐, Qiu Chengtong) is a Chinese-American mathematician, the first Chinese-born Fields Medalist, who proved the Calabi conjecture in 1976 and gave his name to Calabi–Yau manifolds.
Shizuo Kakutani
Shizuo Kakutani (1911–2004) was a Japanese mathematician who spent most of his career at Yale and is best known for the Kakutani fixed-point theorem, a key tool in game theory and economics.
Shlomo Sternberg
Shlomo Sternberg (1936–2024) was an American mathematician at Harvard University known for work in differential and symplectic geometry, Lie theory, and applications of geometry to mechanics and physics.
Shmuel Agmon
Shmuel Agmon (1922–2025) was an Israeli mathematician at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, best known for the Agmon–Douglis–Nirenberg regularity theory and Agmon's method for eigenfunction decay.
Shmuel Shimon Oren
Shmuel Shimon Oren is an operations researcher and engineer, a professor at UC Berkeley and National Academy of Engineering member known for designing restructured electricity markets.
Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar
Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar (1930–2012) was an Indian-American mathematician who spent most of his career at Purdue University, known for Abhyankar's conjecture, the Abhyankar–Moh theorem, and resolution of singularities in positive characteristic.
Sigurður Helgason
Sigurður Helgason (1927–2023) was an Icelandic mathematician at MIT who created the modern theory of the Radon transform, the mathematics behind CT scans, and wrote the classic 1962 book Differential Geometry and Symmetric Spaces.
Simon B. Kochen
Simon B. Kochen is a mathematician who taught at Cornell and Princeton, known for the Kochen–Specker theorem in quantum mechanics and the Ax–Kochen theorem in number theory.
Simon Brendle
Simon Brendle is a differential geometer and professor of mathematics at Columbia University, known for the differentiable sphere theorem, the Lawson conjecture, and the 2024 Breakthrough Prize.
Simon Donaldson
Simon Donaldson is a British mathematician, born in 1957, who won the 1986 Fields Medal for work on four-dimensional manifolds and holds a chair at Imperial College London.
Simon Gindikin
Simon Gindikin (Семен Григорьевич Гиндикин), born 1937, is a Moscow-school mathematician and Rutgers professor known for the Gindikin–Karpelevich formula and for rebuilding representation theory on integral geometry.
Simon N. Wood
Simon N. Wood is a statistician holding the Chair of Computational Statistics at the University of Edinburgh, known for the R package mgcv and for introducing synthetic likelihood.
Simon P. Norton
Simon P. Norton, or Simon Phillips Norton, was a British mathematician at Cambridge who co-discovered the Harada–Norton group and co-authored the ATLAS of Finite Groups.
Simon Plouffe
Simon Plouffe is a Canadian mathematician, born in Saint-Jovite, Quebec, who co-discovered the BBP formula for pi in 1995 and co-authored The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences with Neil Sloane.
Sōichi Kakeya
Sōichi Kakeya (掛谷宗一, 1886–1947) was a Japanese mathematician who posed the Kakeya needle problem in 1917 and proved the 1912 Eneström–Kakeya theorem on roots of algebraic equations.
Solomon Feferman
Solomon Feferman (1928–2016) was an American mathematician at Stanford University who shaped proof theory through predicative mathematics and led the editing of Kurt Gödel's five-volume Collected Works.
Solomon Kullback
Solomon Kullback (1907–1994) was an American mathematician and cryptanalyst who helped break Japan's Red and Purple cipher machines and later gave his name to the Kullback–Leibler divergence, standard in statistics and machine learning.
Solomon Lefschetz
Solomon Lefschetz (1884–1972) was a Moscow-born, Paris-raised American mathematician who founded algebraic topology, proved the Lefschetz fixed-point theorem, and as Princeton professor and Annals of Mathematics editor built a famous mathematics center.
Song Hao
Song Hao (宋浩) is a Chinese mathematics educator and online science communicator whose recorded university math courses on Bilibili have drawn more than 10 million followers.
Song Sun
Song Sun (孙崧, born 1987) is a Chinese mathematician in complex differential geometry who, with Xiuxiong Chen and Simon Donaldson, proved K-stable Fano manifolds admit Kähler–Einstein metrics, resolving Yau's conjecture.
Sophie Piccard
Sophie Piccard (1904–1990) was a Russian-born Swiss mathematician at the University of Neuchâtel who in 1943 became the first woman full professor at a Swiss university.
Sophus Lie
Sophus Lie (1842–1899) was a Norwegian mathematician who founded the theory of continuous transformation groups, now known as Lie groups and Lie algebras, and held chairs at Christiania and Leipzig.
Sorin Popa
Sorin Popa, born 1953 in Bucharest, Romania, is a Romanian-American mathematician and UCLA professor known for foundational tools in subfactor theory and for deformation-rigidity theory, winning the 2009 Ostrowski Prize.
Spencer Bloch
Spencer Janney Bloch, born in 1944, is an American mathematician and emeritus professor at the University of Chicago known for algebraic cycles, higher K-theory, and the Bloch–Kato conjectures.
Stål Aanderaa
Stål Aanderaa (1931–2026) was a Norwegian mathematician and logician, professor at the University of Oslo from 1978, known for the Aanderaa–Karp–Rosenberg conjecture and work on undecidability.
Stanislav Smirnov
Stanislav Smirnov is a Russian mathematician, professor at the University of Geneva since 2003, who won the 2010 Fields Medal for proving conformal invariance of percolation.