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Benedict Gross
Benedict Gross (1950–2025) was an American number theorist, Harvard professor from 1985 to 2015, and winner of the MacArthur Fellowship and Cole Prize, best known for the Gross–Zagier theorem.
Beniamino Segre
Beniamino Segre (1903–1977) was an Italian mathematician who worked in algebraic and combinatorial geometry, known for the Segre classification and the theorem that ovals in finite planes of odd order are conics.
Benjamin Osgood Peirce
Benjamin Osgood Peirce was an American mathematician and physicist who held Harvard's Hollis chair from 1888 to 1914 and wrote A Short Table of Integrals, an indispensable reference for scientists.
Benjamin Peirce
Benjamin Peirce (1809–1880) was an American mathematician and astronomer who taught at Harvard for nearly fifty years, classified linear associative algebras, and helped determine Neptune's orbit after its 1846 discovery.
Benjamin Trump
Benjamin D. Trump is an American risk and systems scientist who won the 2025 Presidential Early Career Award and joined NC State University as an associate professor in 2026.
Beno Eckmann
Beno Eckmann (1917–2008) was a Swiss mathematician at ETH Zürich, a founder of homological algebra, category theory, and group cohomology, who also established ETH's Forschungsinstitut für Mathematik in 1964.
Benoit Mandelbrot
Benoit Mandelbrot (1924–2010) was a Polish-born French-American mathematician who coined the term "fractal" in 1975, developed fractal geometry at IBM over 35 years, and later became a Sterling Professor at Yale University.
Benson Farb
Benson Farb is an American mathematician at the University of Chicago who works in geometric group theory and topology, and won the 2024 Steele Prize for his book on mapping class groups.
Bent Fuglede
Bent Fuglede (1925–2023) was a Danish mathematician at the University of Copenhagen known for Fuglede's theorem on normal operators, the Fuglede–Kadison determinant, and finely harmonic functions.
Beppo Levi
Beppo Levi (1875–1961) was an Italian mathematician whose 1906 monotone convergence theorem is a cornerstone of Lebesgue integration; expelled in 1938, he rebuilt mathematics in Rosario, Argentina.
Bernard Koopman
Bernard Osgood Koopman (1900–1981) was an American mathematician at Columbia University, known for the Koopman operator, a sufficient-statistics theorem, and founding operations research in the United States.
Bernard Maurey
Bernard Maurey is a French mathematician in functional analysis, known for the Maurey factorization theorem, the Maurey–Pisier theorem on type and cotype, and, with Timothy Gowers, hereditarily indecomposable Banach spaces.
Bernardo Cockburn
Bernardo Cockburn is a computational mathematician and Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota, known for hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin methods and a 2024 Frontiers of Science Award.
Bernardo Recamán Santos
Bernardo Recamán Santos, born in Bogotá in 1954, is a Colombian mathematician trained at the University of Warwick whose name is attached to Recamán's sequence.
Bernd Fischer (mathematician)
Bernd Fischer (1936–2020) was a German mathematician at the University of Bielefeld who discovered five sporadic simple groups, including the three Fischer groups and the Monster.
Bernhard Neumann
Bernhard Hermann Neumann (1909–2002) was a German-born British and later Australian mathematician, a foundational figure in infinite group theory known for HNN extensions and the Grushko–Neumann theorem.
Bernhard Schölkopf
Bernhard Schölkopf, born 1968 in Stuttgart, is a German computer scientist known for support vector machines and kernel methods, and director at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen.
Bert Debusschere
Bert Debusschere is a computational scientist at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California, working on uncertainty quantification and computational biology, and a 2007 PECASE winner.
Bertil Matérn
Bertil Matérn (1917–2007) was a Swedish mathematical statistician and forester whose 1960 dissertation Spatial Variation laid the mathematical foundation of spatial statistics, giving his name to the Matérn covariance function.
Bertram Kostant
Bertram Kostant (1928–2017) was an American mathematician at MIT, a major architect of modern Lie theory who developed the coadjoint orbit method and geometric quantization.
Bill Gosper
Bill Gosper, born Ralph William Gosper, Jr., is a programmer and mathematician who found the first glider gun in Conway's Game of Life and created Hashlife.
Bille C. Carlson
Bille C. Carlson (Bille Chandler Carlson, 1924–2013) was an American mathematician and physicist at Iowa State University whose symmetric elliptic integrals RF, RC, RD, and RJ are widely implemented in mathematical software.
Bin Yu
Bin Yu is a statistician and data scientist at UC Berkeley, known for statistical machine learning theory and the veridical data science framework she proposed.
Blagovest Sendov
Blagovest Sendov, fully Blagovest Hristov Sendov (Благовест Христов Сендов), was a Bulgarian mathematician known for Sendov's conjecture in polynomial theory, and a politician who chaired the National Assembly.
Børge Jessen
Børge Jessen (1907–1993) was a Danish mathematician and professor at the University of Copenhagen from 1942 to 1977, known for Jessen's theorem and the Jessen orthogonal icosahedron.
Boris Delaunay
Boris Delaunay, born Boris Nikolaevich Delaunay, was a Soviet mathematician in the geometry of numbers and algebra, known for the Delaunay triangulation from his 1934 paper Sur la sphère vide.
Boris Gnedenko
Boris Gnedenko, also known as Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko, was a Soviet mathematician who proved the Fisher–Tippett–Gnedenko extreme value theorem in 1943 and led probability at Moscow State University.
Boris Levitan
Boris Moiseevich Levitan (Левитан Борис Моисеевич; 1914–2004) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician, co-creator of the Gelfand–Levitan method and winner of the 1962 Lenin Prize.
Boris Plotkin
Boris Isaakovich Plotkin (Борис Исаакович Плоткин; 1925–2023) was a Soviet and Israeli algebraist known for his 1966 monograph on automorphism groups and for founding universal algebraic geometry.
Boris Tsirelson
Boris Tsirelson (Борис Цирельсон, 1950–2020) was a Russian-born Israeli mathematician at Tel Aviv University known for Tsirelson's bound in quantum mechanics and Tsirelson's space in Banach space theory.