Mathematician:Mathematicians/Sorted By Birth/1921 - 1930 CE
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- The army of those who have made at least one definite contribution to mathematics as we know it soon becomes a mob as we look back over history; 6,000 or 8,000 names press forward for some word from us to preserve them from oblivion, and once the bolder leaders have been recognised it becomes largely a matter of arbitrary, illogical legislation to judge who of the clamouring multitude shall be permitted to survive and who be condemned to be forgotten.
- -- Eric Temple Bell: Men of Mathematics, 1937, Victor Gollancz, London
$\text {1921}$ – $\text {1930}$
1921
Marion Kirkland Fort, Jr $($$\text {1921}$ – $\text {1964}$$)$
American mathematician specialising in topology.
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January
Jean-Louis Koszul $($$\text {1921}$ – $\text {2018}$$)$
French mathematician, best known for studying geometry and discovering the Koszul complex.
Second generation member of Bourbaki.
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February
Lotfi Aliasker Zadeh $($$\text {1921}$ – $\text {2017}$$)$
Iranian Azerbaijani mathematician, computer scientist, electrical engineer, artificial intelligence researcher, and professor of computer science.
Best known for formulating the concept of fuzzy logic.
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March
Murray Seymour Klamkin $($$\text {1921}$ – $\text {2004}$$)$
American mathematician, known as prolific proposer and editor of professionally-challenging mathematical problems.
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Isaak Moiseyevich Yaglom $($$\text {1921}$ – $\text {1988}$$)$
Ukrainian mathematician whose wrote many popular works.
The twin brother of Akiva Moiseyevich Yaglom.
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Akiva Moiseyevich Yaglom $($$\text {1921}$ – $\text {2007}$$)$
Ukrainian physicist, mathematician, statistician, and meteorologist, best known for his contributions to the statistical theory of turbulence and theory of random processes.
The twin brother of Isaak Moiseyevich Yaglom.
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Martin Hugo Löb $($$\text {1921}$ – $\text {2006}$$)$
German mathematician who specialised in mathematical logic. Best known for having formulated Löb's Theorem in 1955.
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April
Abe Shenitzer $($$\text {1921}$ – $\text {2022}$$)$
Polish-born mathematician best known for his skill at translation.
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Leo Moser $($$\text {1921}$ – $\text {1970}$$)$
Austrian-Canadian mathematician best known for his work in number theory.
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Thomas Crombie Schelling $($$\text {1921}$ – $\text {2016}$$)$
American economist and professor of foreign policy, national security, nuclear strategy, and arms control.
An authority on game theory.
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Leon Albert Henkin $($$\text {1921}$ – $\text {2006}$$)$
American logician best known for Henkin's Completeness Proof.
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May
Walter Rudin $($$\text {1921}$ – $\text {2010}$$)$
Austrian-born American mathematician best known for the widely-used college textbooks he wrote.
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June
Harry Jeannot Lipkin $($$\text {1921}$ – $\text {2015}$$)$
American-born Israeli theoretical physicist specializing in nuclear physics and elementary particle physics.
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Verner Emil Hoggatt Jr. $($$\text {1921}$ – $\text {1980}$$)$
American mathematician, known mostly for his work in Fibonacci numbers and number theory.
Founder of the Fibonacci Association.
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July
Oscar Wesler $($$\text {1921}$ – $\text {2013}$$)$
American mathematician who taught mathematics and probability theory courses.
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Ronald Newbold Bracewell $($$\text {1921}$ – $\text {2007}$$)$
Australian mathematical physicist who designed and developed microwave radar equipment, and later engaged in ionospheric research.
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September
Yurii Mikhailovich Smirnov $($$\text {1921}$ – $\text {2007}$$)$
Russian mathematician who specialised in topology.
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Pierre Samuel $($$\text {1921}$ – $\text {2009}$$)$
French mathematician working mainly in the fields of commutative algebra and algebraic geometry.
A second-generation member of the Bourbaki group.
Best known (and greatly appreciated) for the books he wrote.
Politically active in the spheres of social justice and environmentalism.
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Franklin Arno Graybill $($$\text {1921}$ – $\text {2012}$$)$
American mathematician working in statistics.
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Robert Clay Prim $($$\text {1921}$ – $\text {2021}$$)$
American mathematician working mainly in the field of computer science.
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November
William Harold Mills $($$\text {1921}$ – $\text {2007}$$)$
American mathematician best known for Mills' Theorem.
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Gerd Edzard Harry Reuter $($$\text {1921}$ – $\text {1992}$$)$
German-born mathematician who emigrated to Britain who worked mainly in the fields of probability theory and analysis.
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December
Angelo Margaris $($$\text {1921}$ – $\text {2006}$$)$
American mathematician best known for his textbook First Order Mathematical Logic.
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Geoffrey Stuart Watson $($$\text {1921}$ – $\text {1998}$$)$
Australian statistician who worked in applications of statistics.
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1922
Dura W. Sweeney $($$\text {1922}$ – $\text {1999}$$)$
American mathematician best known for his work in computational mathematics.
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John Glen Wardrop $($$\text {1922}$ – $\text {1989}$$)$
English mathematician and transport analyst working mainly in the field of traffic assignment.
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January
Lucy Joan Slater $($$\text {1922}$ – $\text {2008}$$)$
English mathematician who worked on hypergeometric functions, and who found many generalizations of the Rogers-Ramanujan identities.
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Erwin O. Kreyszig $($$\text {1922}$ – $\text {2008}$$)$
German-Canadian applied mathematician best known for his text books.
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Douglas Samuel Jones $($$\text {1922}$ – $\text {2013}$$)$
English mathematician known for his work in the field of electromagnetism.
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February
Cornelis Gerrit Lekkerkerker $($$\text {1922}$ – $\text {1999}$$)$
Dutch mathematician who worked on analytic and geometric number theory. Later he worked on topics in functional analysis.
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Ernst Gabor Straus $($$\text {1922}$ – $\text {1983}$$)$
German-American mathematician who helped found the theories of Euclidean Ramsey theory and of the arithmetic properties of analytic functions.
Worked as the assistant to Albert Einstein.
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March
Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya $($$\text {1922}$ – $\text {2004}$$)$
Russian mathematician known for her work on partial differential equations (especially Hilbert's nineteenth problem) and fluid dynamics.
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Patrick Colonel Suppes $($$\text {1922}$ – $\text {2014}$$)$
American philosopher who has written on a variety of subjects, including mathematics.
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Bernard George Neal $($$\text {1922}$ – $\text {2016}$$)$
English professor of structural engineering, also quite good at croquet.
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May
Ben Noble $($$\text {1922}$ – $\text {2006}$$)$
British mathematician best known for his work in numerical analysis.
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June
Friend Hans Kierstead, Jr. $($$\text {1922}$ – $\text {2008}$$)$
American mathematician who was the problem editor of the Journal of Recreational Mathematics.
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Henry Andrew Kierstead $($$\text {1922}$ – $\text {1990}$$)$
American mathematician who contributed to the Journal of Recreational Mathematics.
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August
John Hunter $($$\text {1922}$ – $\text {2013}$$)$
Scottish mathematician best known for his textbooks.
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Andrzej Grzegorczyk $($$\text {1922}$ – $\text {2014}$$)$
Polish logician, mathematician, philosopher, and ethicist noted for his work in computability, mathematical logic, and the foundations of mathematics.
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October
Yang Chen-Ning $($$\text {b. 1922}$$)$
Chinese theoretical physicist who has made significant contributions to statistical mechanics, integrable systems, gauge theory, and both particle physics and condensed matter physics.
Formulated Yang-Mills theory with Robert Laurence Mills.
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Tudor Ganea $($$\text {1922}$ – $\text {1971}$$)$
Romanian mathematician, known for his work in algebraic topology, especially homotopy theory.
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November
George Brown Arfken $($$\text {1922}$ – $\text {2020}$$)$
American theoretical physicist and author of several mathematical physics texts.
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Meyer Jerison $($$\text {1922}$ – $\text {1995}$$)$
American mathematician known for his work in functional analysis and rings.
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1923
January
Philip J. Davis $($$\text {1923}$ – $\text {2018}$$)$
American mathematician whose main work is in numerical analysis and approximation theory.
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Maks Aizikovich Akivis $($$\text {b. 1923}$$)$
Russian mathematician who worked mainly in the fields of differential geometry and linear algebra.
Student of Israel Moiseevich Gelfand.
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Gertrude Ehrlich $($$\text {b. 1923}$$)$
Austrian American mathematics professor working in algebra and abstract algebra.
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Marvin Stern $($$\text {b. 1923}$$)$
American mathematician and engineer of East European ancestry who worked in the aerospace industry.
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March
Lewis Richard Benjamin Elton $($$\text {1923}$ – $\text {2018}$$)$
German-born British physicist and researcher into education, specialising in higher education.
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Israel Nathan Herstein $($$\text {1923}$ – $\text {1988}$$)$
Polish-born mathematician who worked on a variety of areas of algebra, including ring theory.
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April
George Spencer-Brown $($$\text {1923}$ – $\text {2016}$$)$
British mathematician, philosopher and crackpot best known for his book Laws of Form.
Made claims to the proofs of some famous hypotheses, but these were never validated.
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Peter John Hilton $($$\text {1923}$ – $\text {2010}$$)$
English mathematician best known for his work as a code-breaker at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, where he helped break the Lorenz cipher.
His academic interests lay in homotopy theory.
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Jacob Cohen $($$\text {1923}$ – $\text {1998}$$)$
American psychologist and statistician best known for his work on statistical power and effect size.
This helped to lay foundations for current statistical meta-analysis and the methods of estimation statistics.
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May
Eugenio Calabi $($$\text {b. 1923}$$)$
Italian-born American mathematician specializing in differential geometry, partial differential equations and their applications.
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Armand Borel $($$\text {1923}$ – $\text {2003}$$)$
Swiss mathematician who worked in algebraic topology and the theory of Lie groups.
One of the creators of the contemporary theory of linear algebraic groups.
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June
James Durbin $($$\text {1923}$ – $\text {2012}$$)$
British statistician and econometrician, known particularly for his work on time series analysis and serial correlation.
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July
Beauregard Stubblefield $($$\text {1923}$ – $\text {2013}$$)$
American mathematician who is best known for his investiations into odd perfect numbers.
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August
William Judson LeVeque $($$\text {1923}$ – $\text {2007}$$)$
American mathematician and administrator who worked primarily in number theory.
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John R. Myhill $($$\text {1923}$ – $\text {1987}$$)$
British mathematician working mainly in the field formal languages and mathematical logic.
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Tom Mike Apostol $($$\text {1923}$ – $\text {2016}$$)$
American mathematician of Greek origin best known for his textbooks and skill as a teacher.
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September
René Frédéric Thom $($$\text {1923}$ – $\text {2002}$$)$
French mathematician who worked as a topologist, then moved on to aspects of what would later be called singularity theory.
One of the founders of catastrophe theory.
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Peter Karl Henrici $($$\text {1923}$ – $\text {1987}$$)$
Swiss mathematician best known for his contributions to the field of numerical analysis.
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Raoul Bott $($$\text {1923}$ – $\text {2005}$$)$
Hungarian-American mathematician known for numerous basic contributions to geometry.
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Albert Franklin Kempf $($$\text {1923}$ – $\text {2022}$$)$
American mathematician and educationalist.
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October
Cassius Tocqueville Ionescu Tulcea $($$\text {1923}$ – $\text {2021}$$)$
Romanian-American mathematician with an interest in probability theory, statistics and mathematical analysis.
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Murray Ralph Spiegel $($$\text {1923}$ – $\text {1991}$$)$
American mathematician whose main body of work consists of a series of technical books on applied mathematics.
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December
Harvey Cohn $($$\text {1923}$ – $\text {2014}$$)$
American mathematician who majored in number theory.
Pioneered the use of computers for mathematical investigations.
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1924
Joe B. Roberts $($$\text {b. c. 1924}$$)$
American mathematician best known for his work on recreational mathematics Lure of the Integers.
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January
Clive William Kilmister $($$\text {1924}$ – $\text {2010}$$)$
British mathematician who specialised in the mathematical foundations of Physics, especially Quantum Mechanics and Relativity.
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Paul Moritz Cohn $($$\text {1924}$ – $\text {2006}$$)$
German-born mathematician renowned as an expert in abstract algebra, in particular non-commutative rings.
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Michael James Lighthill $($$\text {1924}$ – $\text {1998}$$)$
British applied mathematician, known for his pioneering work in the field of aeroacoustics.
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Howard Raiffa $($$\text {1924}$ – $\text {2016}$$)$
American mathematician who mainly worked in game theory and economics.
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February
Steven Alexander Gaal $($$\text {1924}$ – $\text {2016}$$)$
Hungarian-American mathematician known for his writings on topology.
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March
Peter Yff $($$\text {1924}$ – $\text {2019}$$)$
American mathematician best known for Yff's Conjecture.
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David Borwein $($$\text {1924}$ – $\text {2021}$$)$
Canadian mathematician of Lithuanian origin, best known for his research in the summability theory of series and integrals.
Also working in measure theory and probability theory, number theory, and approximate subgradients and coderivatives, and the properties of single- and many-variable sinc integrals.
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April
Maxwell Alexander Rosenlicht $($$\text {1924}$ – $\text {1999}$$)$
American mathematician known for works in algebraic geometry, algebraic groups, and differential algebra.
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May
Isadore Manuel Singer $($$\text {1924}$ – $\text {2021}$$)$
American mathematician working in the boundaries between pure mathematics and theoretical physics.
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Eugene Borisovich Dynkin $($$\text {1924}$ – $\text {2014}$$)$
Russian mathematician whose work is in probability and algebra.
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Michael Barker Glauert $($$\text {1924}$ – $\text {2004}$$)$
English mathematician who mainly worked in hyrdodynamics.
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June
H. Graham Flegg $($$\text {1924}$ – $\text {2015}$$)$
British mathematician working mainly in the history of mathematics.
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Hans-Egon Richert $($$\text {1924}$ – $\text {1993}$$)$
German mathematician who worked primarily in analytic number theory.
Also contributed to sieve theory.
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László Fuchs $($$\text {b. 1924}$$)$
Hungarian-American mathematician known for his research and textbooks in group theory and abstract algebra.
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July
Ram Prakash Kanwal $($$\text {1924}$ – $\text {2006}$$)$
Indian mathematician working mainly in function theory.
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David Roxbee Cox $($$\text {1924}$ – $\text {2022}$$)$
British mathematician working mainly in the field of statistics.
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October
John Ashworth Nelder $($$\text {1924}$ – $\text {2010}$$)$
English statistician known for his contributions to experimental design, analysis of variance, computational statistics, and statistical theory.
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Richard Albert Dean $($$\text {1924}$ – $\text {2022}$$)$
American mathematician and educator working in set theory.
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Maurice Henry Quenouille $($$\text {1924}$ – $\text {1973}$$)$
English statistician best known as the creator of jack-knife resampling.
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November
Petr Beckmann $($$\text {1924}$ – $\text {1993}$$)$
Czech-born professor of electrical engineering who became a well-known advocate of libertarianism and nuclear power.
Later in his life he disputed Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and other accepted theories in modern physics.
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Benoît B. Mandelbrot $($$\text {1924}$ – $\text {2010}$$)$
French-American mathematician of Polish origin famous for his work on fractals.
The Mandelbrot set is named for him.
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December
John Warner Backus $($$\text {1924}$ – $\text {2007}$$)$
American computer scientist, significantly involved in the development of several computer languages, including ALGOL and FORTRAN.
The metalanguage Backus-Naur Form (BNF) was named after him (who invented it) and Peter Naur (who refined it).
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Mary Ellen Rudin $($$\text {1924}$ – $\text {2013}$$)$
American topologist best known for creating counterexamples to conjectures in point-set topology, and especially for being the first person to construct a Dowker Space, disproving a long-standing conjecture.
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Frank William John Olver $($$\text {1924}$ – $\text {2013}$$)$
English mathematician who worked on asymptotic analysis, special functions, and numerical analysis.
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Ronald Cedric Read $($$\text {1924}$ – $\text {2019}$$)$
English mathematician, writing primarily on enumeration of graphs, graph isomorphism, chromatic polynomials, and particularly, the use of computers in graph-theoretical research.
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1925
Patrick J. Murphy $($$\text {b. 1925}$$)$
British mathematician and educationalist.
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February
Erik Christopher Zeeman $($$\text {1925}$ – $\text {2016}$$)$
British mathematician known for his work in geometric topology and singularity theory.
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Helmut Heinrich Schaefer $($$\text {1925}$ – $\text {2005}$$)$
German mathematician whose work was centered on functional analysis.
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March
George Finlay Simmons $($$\text {1925}$ – $\text {2019}$$)$
American mathematician who has worked in topology and classical analysis.
Renowned for both his teaching abilities and his first-class text books.
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Jun-iti Nagata $($$\text {1925}$ – $\text {2007}$$)$
Japanese mathematician specializing in topology.
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Gordon Elliott Wall $($$\text {b. 1925}$$)$
Australian mathematician whose interests are in algebra and group theory.
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Gabriel Andrew Dirac $($$\text {1925}$ – $\text {1984}$$)$
Swiss mathematician who mainly worked in graph theory.
Stepson of Paul Dirac and nephew of Eugene Wigner.
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John Torrence Tate $($$\text {1925}$ – $\text {2019}$$)$
American mathematician known for his contributions to algebraic number theory, algebraic geometry and arithmetic geometry.
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May
Patrick Paul Billingsley $($$\text {1925}$ – $\text {2011}$$)$
American mathematician and stage and screen actor, noted for his books in advanced probability theory and statistics.
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Robert Duncan Luce $($$\text {1925}$ – $\text {2012}$$)$
American mathematician known for his work in game theory and economics.
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Paul Van Campen Hough $($$\text {1925}$ – $\text {2021}$$)$
American physicist who was the originator of the Hough transform.
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George Leitmann $($$\text {b. 1925}$$)$
American control theorist considered one of the leading authorities in optimal control theory and its applications.
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June
Alexander Provan Robertson $($$\text {1925}$ – $\text {1995}$$)$
Scottish mathematician known for his work in topology.
Emigrated to Australia to take part in the founding of Murdoch University.
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July
Harold William Kuhn $($$\text {1925}$ – $\text {2014}$$)$
American mathematician who studied game theory.
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Arthur Oliver Lonsdale Atkin $($$\text {1925}$ – $\text {2008}$$)$
British mathematician best known for his work in computational number theory.
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August
Kenneth L. Cooke $($$\text {1925}$ – $\text {2007}$$)$
American mathematical biologist known for his contributions to the study of epidemics.
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Ernest Arthur Michael $($$\text {1925}$ – $\text {2013}$$)$
American mathematician known for his work in the field of general topology, most notably for his pioneering research on set-valued mappings.
Developed the theory of continuous selections.
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October
Klaus Friedrich Roth $($$\text {1925}$ – $\text {2015}$$)$
German-born British mathematician who won the Fields Medal for proving Roth's theorem on the Diophantine approximation of algebraic numbers.
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December
Michael Selwyn Longuet-Higgins $($$\text {1925}$ – $\text {2016}$$)$
English mathematician and oceanographer.
Introduced the theory of the origin of microseisms.
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1926
Nagayoshi Iwahori $($$\text {1926}$ – $\text {2011}$$)$
Japanese mathematician who worked on algebraic groups over local fields.
Introduced Iwahori-Hecke algebras and Iwahori subgroups.
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Zdzislaw Alexander Melzak $($$\text {b. 1926}$$)$
American mathematician mainly working in geometry.
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Bert Mendelson $($$\text {1926}$ – $\text {1988}$$)$
American mathematician best known for his textbook Introduction to Topology.
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Ernest Tilden Parker $($$\text {1926}$ – $\text {1991}$$)$
American mathematician best known for disproving Euler's Conjecture on Orthogonal Latin Squares with Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande and Raj Chandra Bose.
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Richard Allan Silverman $($$\text {b. 1926}$$)$
American mathematician best known for his translations of (mainly) Russian mathematical textbooks into English.
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Andrew Hugh Wallace $($$\text {1926}$ – $\text {2008}$$)$
Scottish mathematician working in topology.
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January
Peter Hagis, Jr. $($$\text {1926}$ – $\text {2018}$$)$
American mathematician working in number theory.
Best known for his work establishing the lower bound of odd perfect numbers.
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Donald John Lewis $($$\text {1926}$ – $\text {2015}$$)$
American mathematician specializing in number theory.
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Gaisi Takeuti $($$\text {1926}$ – $\text {2017}$$)$
Japanese mathematician specialising in logic and set theory.
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February
James Alexander Green $($$\text {1926}$ – $\text {2014}$$)$
Scottish mathematician who worked in the field of representation theory.
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March
Martin Shubik $($$\text {1926}$ – $\text {2018}$$)$
American economist, who is Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Institutional Economics at Yale University.
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April
Robert Lawson Vaught $($$\text {1926}$ – $\text {2002}$$)$
American mathematician who mainly worked in mathematical logic, and was one of the founders of model theory.
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May
Peter David Lax $($$\text {b. 1926}$$)$
Hungarian-born American mathematician working in the areas of pure and applied mathematics.
Made important contributions to integrable systems, fluid dynamics and shock waves, solitonic physics, hyperbolic conservation laws, and mathematical and scientific computing, among other fields.
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Donald Watson Blackett $($$\text {1926}$ – $\text {2004}$$)$
American mathematician best known for his work in game theory and topology
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June
Claude Jacques Roger Berge $($$\text {1926}$ – $\text {2002}$$)$
French mathematician who is considered to be one of the modern founders of combinatorics and graph theory.
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John Cedric Shepherdson $($$\text {1926}$ – $\text {2015}$$)$
English mathematician who worked in ring theory and mathematical logic.
Co-designer (with Howard E. Sturgis) of the Unlimited Register Machine, a refinement of the Turing machine.
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July
John Leech $($$\text {1926}$ – $\text {1992}$$)$
English mathematician working in number theory, geometry and combinatorial group theory.
Discovered the $3$rd Hardy-Ramanujan number $\map {\operatorname{Ta} } 3$ in $1957$.
Best known for his discovery of the Leech lattice in $1965$.
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Edward McWilliam Patterson $($$\text {1926}$ – $\text {2013}$$)$
English mathematician whose research included the study of recurrent tensor fields, ring theory and Lie algebras.
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Hilary Whitehall Putnam $($$\text {1926}$ – $\text {2016}$$)$
American mathematician and philosopher, who has written significantly on various subjects, such as the philosophy of logic and language acquisition.
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August
Richard Carl Jeffrey $($$\text {1926}$ – $\text {2002}$$)$
American mathematician who mainly worked in logic and probability theory.
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Lewis McAdory Branscomb $($$\text {b. 1926}$$)$
American physicist best known as former head of the National Bureau of Standards.
Prolific writer on science policy issues.
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September
Jean-Pierre Albert Achille Serre $($$\text {b. 1926}$$)$
French mathematician who has made contributions to algebraic topology, algebraic geometry, and algebraic number theory.
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October
Michio Suzuki $($$\text {1926}$ – $\text {1998}$$)$
Japanese mathematician who studied group theory.
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Herman Rubin $($$\text {1926}$ – $\text {2018}$$)$
American mathematician specialising in statistics.
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November
Wilson Miles Zaring $($$\text {1926}$ – $\text {2016}$$)$
American mathematician working in axiomatic set theory.
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Walter Laws Smith $($$\text {1926}$ – $\text {2023}$$)$
British-born American mathematician known for his contributions to applied probability theory.
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December
Thomas C. Bartee $($$\text {1926}$ – $\text {2018}$$)$
American pioneer in digital computing.
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1927
Nesmith Cornett Ankeny $($$\text {1927}$ – $\text {1993}$$)$
American mathematician specialising in number theory.
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February
Wilbur Eugene Deskins $($$\text {1927}$ – $\text {2012}$$)$
American mathematician working in abstract algebra.
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Masayoshi Nagata $($$\text {1927}$ – $\text {2008}$$)$
Japanese mathematician who worked mainly in the field of commutative algebra.
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David John Wheeler $($$\text {1927}$ – $\text {2004}$$)$
English mathematician best known as the co-discoverer with Jeffrey C.P. Miller of the prime number $180 \times \paren {2^{127} - 1}^2 + 1$ in $1951$.
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John Lewis Selfridge $($$\text {1927}$ – $\text {2010}$$)$
American mathematician who contributed to the fields of analytic number theory, computational number theory and combinatorics.
Proved in $1962$ that $78 \ 557$ is a Sierpiński number of the second kind.
Conjectured (with Wacław Franciszek Sierpiński) that it is also the smallest. This still has not been proven (see Sierpiński Problem).
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Richard Scott Pierce $($$\text {1927}$ – $\text {1992}$$)$
American mathematician who mainly worked in abstract algebra.
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March
Joseph Steven Madachy $($$\text {1927}$ – $\text {2014}$$)$
American research chemist, technical editor and recreational mathematician.
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April
Tage Gutmann Madsen $($$\text {1927}$ – $\text {2015}$$)$
Danish mathematician who worked in measure theory.
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Wendy Jean Rosalind Robertson $($$\text {1927}$ – $\text {2016}$$)$
English mathematician working in topology.
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Robert Laurence Mills $($$\text {1927}$ – $\text {1999}$$)$
American physicist, specializing in quantum field theory, the theory of alloys, and many-body theory.
Formulated Yang-Mills theory with Yang Chen-Ning.
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Geoffrey Stephenson $($$\text {1927}$ – $\text {2018}$$)$
English mathematician specialising in applied mathematics.
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Michel André Kervaire $($$\text {1927}$ – $\text {2007}$$)$
French mathematician who made significant contributions to topology and algebra.
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May
Serge Lang $($$\text {1927}$ – $\text {2005}$$)$
French-American mathematician known for his work in number theory, and for the mathematics textbooks he wrote.
Member of the Bourbaki group.
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June
Benjamin Franklin Logan $($$\text {1927}$ – $\text {2015}$$)$
American electrical engineer and bluegrass music fiddler.
Corresponded with Donald E. Knuth, with whom he exchanged insights.
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Marvin Zelen $($$\text {1927}$ – $\text {2014}$$)$
American mathematician who shaped the discipline of biostatistics.
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July
Seth L. Warner $($$\text {1927}$ – $\text {2017}$$)$
American mathematician who worked in topology and abstract algebra.
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August
Henry Peter Francis Swinnerton-Dyer $($$\text {1927}$ – $\text {2018}$$)$
English mathematician specialising in number theory.
Best known for his part in the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture.
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Richard C. DiPrima $($$\text {1927}$ – $\text {1984}$$)$
American mathematician best known for his textbooks.
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October
Friedrich Ernst Peter Hirzebruch $($$\text {1927}$ – $\text {2012}$$)$
German mathematician, working in the fields of topology, complex manifolds and algebraic geometry.
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November
Robert Gardner Bartle $($$\text {1927}$ – $\text {2003}$$)$
American mathematician specializing in real analysis.
Best known for his text books.
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Elvin James Lee $($$\text {1927}$ – $\text {2019}$$)$
American amateur mathematician active in the recreational mathematics community.
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December
Reuben Hersh $($$\text {1927}$ – $\text {2020}$$)$
American mathematician best known for his writings on the philosophy of mathematics.
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Adrianus Johannes Wilhelmus Duijvestijn $($$\text {1927}$ – $\text {1998}$$)$
Dutch computer scientist and mathematician best known for finding the Smallest Perfect Square Dissection.
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Walter Gautschi $($$\text {b. 1927}$$)$
Swiss-American mathematician known for his contributions to numerical analysis.
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1928
Richard H. Crowell $($$\text {c. 1928}$ – $\text {2006}$$)$
American mathematician working in topology, calculus and knot theory.
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Dominic William Jordan $($$\text {c. 1928}$ – $\text {2012}$$)$
English self-taught mathematician who wrote textbooks after retiring from a career teaching mathematics in University.
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Nikolai Makarovich Nagorny $($$\text {1928}$ – $\text {2007}$$)$
Russian mathematician who wrote on the subject of algorithm theory.
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January
Joseph Bernard Kruskal $($$\text {1928}$ – $\text {2010}$$)$
American mathematician working in the fields of statistics, computer science and graph theory, among others.
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February
Seymour Aubrey Papert $($$\text {1928}$ – $\text {2016}$$)$
South African-born American mathematician, computer scientist and educator
One of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, and of the constructionist movement in education.
Co-inventor, with Wally Feurzeig and Cynthia Solomon, of the Logo programming language.
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March
Wendell Helms Fleming $($$\text {b. 1928}$$)$
American mathematician specializing in geometrical analysis and stochastic differential equations.
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Ray Alden Kunze $($$\text {1928}$ – $\text {2014}$$)$
American mathematician whose research concerned the representation theory of groups and noncommutative harmonic analysis.
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Martin David Davis $($$\text {b. 1928}$$)$
American mathematician working mainly in the field of mathematical logic.
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Abner Shimony $($$\text {1928}$ – $\text {2015}$$)$
American physicist and philosopher of science specializing in quantum theory.
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Paulo Ribenboim $($$\text {b. 1928}$$)$
Brazilian-Canadian mathematician who specializes in number theory.
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Lennart Axel Edvard Carleson $($$\text {b. 1928}$$)$
Swedish mathematician, known as a leader in the field of harmonic analysis.
Proved Lusin's Conjecture.
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Alexander Grothendieck $($$\text {1928}$ – $\text {2014}$$)$
German-born mathematician of semi-Ukrainian ancestry who is usually credited with creating the modern field of algebraic geometry.
His collaborative seminar-driven approach had the result of making him one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century.
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April
Harold Seymour Shapiro $($$\text {1928}$ – $\text {2021}$$)$
American mathematician best known for inventing the Shapiro polynomials and for pioneering work on quadrature domains.
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Thomas Andrew Lehrer $($$\text {b. 1928}$$)$
Mathematics lecturer at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Far better known for his brief but successful musical career.
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May
Sergey Nikitovich Mergelyan $($$\text {1928}$ – $\text {2008}$$)$
Armenian mathematician mainly working in Approximation Theory.
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Norman C. Severo $($$\text {1928}$ – $\text {2019}$$)$
American mathematician known for his work in statistics.
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June
John Forbes Nash $($$\text {1928}$ – $\text {2015}$$)$
American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, differential geometry, and the study of partial differential equations.
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Iain Thomas Arthur Carpenter Adamson $($$\text {1928}$ – $\text {2010}$$)$
Scottish mathematician best known for his work in field theory.
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Wolfgang Haken $($$\text {1928}$ – $\text {2022}$$)$
German mathematician mainly involved in topology where the bulk of his work has been on 3-dimensional manifolds.
In $1976$, along with Kenneth Ira Appel, proved the Four Color Theorem with the help of a computer.
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July
Jürgen Kurt Moser $($$\text {1928}$ – $\text {1999}$$)$
German mathematician mainly involved in dynamical systems.
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Louis Auslander $($$\text {1928}$ – $\text {1997}$$)$
Prolific American mathematician who worked in many fields, including Finsler geometry, geometry of solvmanifolds and nilmanifolds, locally affine spaces, many aspects of harmonic analysis, representation theory of solvable Lie groups, and multidimensional Fourier transforms and the design of signal sets for communications and radar.
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Errett Albert Bishop $($$\text {1928}$ – $\text {1983}$$)$
American mathematician known for his work on expanding the scope of constructive analysis.
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Harvey Alan Dubner $($$\text {1928}$ – $\text {2019}$$)$
American engineer and mathematician specializing in the mathematics of casino games and finding large primes.
Invented the point-count method for gaining an advantage in blackjack.
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James Harold McKay $($$\text {b. 1928}$$)$
American mathematician best known for his work in group theory.
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August
Manfredo Perdigão do Carmo $($$\text {1928}$ – $\text {2018}$$)$
Brazilian mathematician specialising in differential geometry.
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Henry Wadsworth Gould $($$\text {b. 1928}$$)$
American mathematician whose research has been in combinatorial analysis, number theory, special functions of mathematical physics, and the history of mathematics and astronomy.
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September
Evelyn Martin Lansdowne Beale $($$\text {1928}$ – $\text {1985}$$)$
English applied mathematician and statistician who was one of the pioneers of mathematical programming.
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Donald Gordon Higman $($$\text {1928}$ – $\text {2006}$$)$
American mathematician noted for his discovery of the Higman-Sims group, with Charles Coffin Sims.
His work contributed towards the discovery of several of the sporadic simple groups.
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Halsey Lawrence Royden $($$\text {1928}$ – $\text {1993}$$)$
American mathematician specialising in complex analysis, Riemann surfaces and differential geometry.
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October
Ian Grant Macdonald $($$\text {1928}$ – $\text {2023}$$)$
English mathematician known for his contributions to symmetric functions, special functions, Lie algebra theory and other aspects of algebraic combinatorics.
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Donald Bruce Gillies $($$\text {1928}$ – $\text {1975}$$)$
Canadian mathematician and computer scientist.
In $1963$, discovered the $21$st, $22$nd and $23$rd Mersenne primes with the aid of the ILLIAC II computer. The largest of these ($2^{11 \, 213} - 1$) was reported in the Guinness Book of Records and immortalised on all mail sent from the postroom of the University of Illinois.
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Peter Naur $($$\text {1928}$ – $\text {2016}$$)$
Danish astronomer, computer scientist and empirical philosopher who was significantly involved in the development of ALGOL.
The metalanguage Backus-Naur Form was named after John Warner Backus (who invented it) and him (who refined it), but would rather it were called Backus Normal Form.
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1929
James Mitchell Henderson $($$\text {b. 1929}$$)$
American economist.
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Frank Tapson $($$\text {b. 1929}$$)$
English mathematician, teacher and game enthusiast who published much material useful for teaching.
Also the creator of several online educational resources.
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January
Halina Moss $($$\text {b. 1929}$$)$
Polish writer known for her translations of mathematical works from Russian.
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March
Donald W. Marquardt $($$\text {1929}$ – $\text {1997}$$)$
American statistician, the rediscoverer of the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm for nonlinear least squares fitting.
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April
François Georges René Bruhat $($$\text {1929}$ – $\text {2007}$$)$
French mathematician who worked on algebraic groups
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Michael Francis Atiyah $($$\text {1929}$ – $\text {2019}$$)$
English mathematician specialising in geometry.
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May
Eugene James Putzer $($$\text {1929}$ – $\text {2006}$$)$
American mathematician and physicist best known for the Putzer Algorithm.
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Hans Ivar Riesel $($$\text {1929}$ – $\text {2014}$$)$
Swedish mathematician who found the $18$th Mersenne prime $2^{3217} - 1$ in $1957$.
He held the record for the highest known prime from $1957$ to $1961$, when Alexander Hurwitz found the next two.
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June
Ross Honsberger $($$\text {1929}$ – $\text {2016}$$)$
Canadian mathematician and author on recreational mathematics.
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July
Elon Lages Lima $($$\text {1929}$ – $\text {2017}$$)$
Brazilian mathematician whose research concerned differential topology, algebraic topology, and differential geometry.
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August
Anthony James Merrill Spencer $($$\text {1929}$ – $\text {2008}$$)$
English mathematician working mainly in the field of material mechanics.
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Frank Ephraim Harris $($$\text {b. 1929}$$)$
American physics professor and fellow of the American Physical Society.
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October
Regina Iosifovna Tyshkevich $($$\text {1929}$ – $\text {2019}$$)$
Russian expert in graph theory.
Her main scientific interests include intersection graphs, degree sequences, and the reconstruction conjecture.
Also known for co-inventing split graphs and for her contributions to line graphs of hypergraphs.
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1930
Morton David Davis $($$\text {b. 1930}$$)$
American mathematician working in the field of game theory.
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Hideyuki Matsumura $($$\text {1930}$ – $\text {1995}$$)$
Japanese mathematician particularly known for his textbooks in commutative algebra.
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Erich Müller-Pfeiffer $($$\text {b. 1930}$$)$
German mathematician best known for his text book.
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Martin Schechter $($$\text {b. 1930}$$)$
American mathematician whose work concerns mathematical analysis (specifically partial differential equations and functional analysis, and their applications to mathematical physics)
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January
Jacob Theodore Schwartz $($$\text {1930}$ – $\text {2009}$$)$
American mathematician, computer scientist, and professor of computer science.
Designer of the SETL programming language.
Started the NYU Ultracomputer project.
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February
Erwin Engeler $($$\text {b. 1930}$$)$
Swiss mathematician whose main work has been in mathematical logic and computer science.
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March
Nobuo Yoneda $($$\text {1930}$ – $\text {1996}$$)$
Japanese mathematician and computer scientist who worked in category theory and homological algebra.
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May
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra $($$\text {1930}$ – $\text {2002}$$)$
Hugely influential Dutch pioneer of computer science.
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June
Richard Emeric Quandt $($$\text {b. 1930}$$)$
Hungarian economist famous for analysing the results of wine-tasting events.
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Edward John Lemmon $($$\text {1930}$ – $\text {1966}$$)$
English mathematician best known as a writer on logic, particularly modal logic.
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Robert John Aumann $($$\text {b. 1930}$$)$
German-born Israeli-American mathematician noted for his work on conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis.
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Reinhold Remmert $($$\text {1930}$ – $\text {2016}$$)$
German mathematician whose work has mainly been in developing the theory of complex spaces.
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July
Stephen Smale $($$\text {b. 1930}$$)$
American mathematician working in topology, dynamical systems and mathematical economics.
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Donald J. Newman $($$\text {1930}$ – $\text {2007}$$)$
American mathematician active in the fields of complex analysis, number theory and approximation theory.
Best known for his elementary proof of the Prime Number Theorem.
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August
Jacques Tits $($$\text {1930}$ – $\text {2021}$$)$
Belgian, then French mathematician who worked on group theory and incidence geometry.
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James Raymond Munkres $($$\text {b. 1930}$$)$
American mathematician and author of Topology, one of the most popular undergraduate topology textbooks.
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September
Richard Merett Montague $($$\text {1930}$ – $\text {1971}$$)$
American mathematician and logician.
Proved that ZFC must contain infintely many axioms.
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October
Walter Feit $($$\text {1930}$ – $\text {2004}$$)$
Austrian-born American mathematician who worked in finite group theory and representation theory.
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John Rolfe Isbell $($$\text {1930}$ – $\text {2005}$$)$
American mathematician best known for his work in topology and category theory.
Also published under the pseudonyms John Rainwater, M.G. Stanley and H.C. Enos.
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William Joseph Pervin $($$\text {b. 1930}$$)$
American mathematician best known as a computer science educator.
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November
Norman Woodason Johnson $($$\text {1930}$ – $\text {2017}$$)$
American mathematician best known for enumerating all $92$ convex non-uniform polyhedra with regular faces.
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John David Brillhart $($$\text {b. 1930}$$)$
American mathematician known for his work in integer factorization, including the development of the continued fraction factorization method.
Has been a principal participant in the Cunningham project.
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Kenneth Myron Hoffman $($$\text {1930}$ – $\text {2008}$$)$
American mathematician whose primary area of research specialization was functional analysis.
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December
William Edward Boyce $($$\text {1930}$ – $\text {2019}$$)$
American mathematician best known for his textbooks.
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