List of Jewish American mathematicians

This is a list of notable Jewish American mathematicians. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.

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Yakov Eliashberg

Charles Fefferman

Michael Freedman

Sergiu Klainerman

Peter Lax

Elias M. Stein

Edward Witten

• Abraham Adrian Albert (1905-1972), abstract algebra^[1]
• Kenneth Appel (1932-2013), four-color problem ^{[2][unreliable source?]}
• Lipman Bers (1914-1993), non-linear elliptic equations^[3]
• Paul Cohen (1934-2007), set theorist; Fields Medal (1966)^[4]
• Jesse Douglas (1897-1965), mathematician; Fields Medal (1936), Bôcher Memorial Prize (1943)^[5]
• Samuel Eilenberg (1913-1988), category theory; Wolf Prize (1986), Steele Prize (1987)^[6]
• Yakov Eliashberg (born 1946), symplectic topology and partial differential equations^[7]
• Charles Fefferman (born 1949), mathematician; Fields Medal (1978), Bôcher Prize (2008)^[7][8][9]
• William Feller (1906-1970), probability theory ^[10]
• Michael Freedman (born 1951), mathematician; Fields Medal (1986)^{[7][unreliable source?]}
• Hillel Furstenberg (born 1935), mathematician; Wolf Prize (2006/07), Abel Prize (2020)^[11][12]
• Michael Golomb (1909-2008), theory of approximation ^[13]
• Michael Harris (born 1954), mathematician^[14]
• E. Morton Jellinek (1890-1963), biostatistician ^[15]
• Edward Kasner (1878-1955), mathematician ^[16]
• Sergiu Klainerman (born 1950), hyperbolic differential equations and general relativity, MacArthur Fellow (1991), Guggenheim Fellow (1997), Bôcher Memorial Prize(1999) ^[7]
• Cornelius Lanczos (1893-1974), mathematician and mathematical physicist ^[17]
• Peter Lax (1926–2025), mathematician; Wolf Prize (1987), Steele Prize (1993), Abel Prize (2005)^[18]
• Tom Lehrer (1928-2025), mathematician, humorist and songwriter
• Emma Lehmer (1906-2007), mathematician ^[19]
• Grigory Margulis (born 1946), mathematician; Fields Medal (1978), Wolf Prize (2005), Abel Prize (2020)^[12]
• Barry Mazur (born 1937), mathematician; Cole Prize (1982), Chern Medal (2022)^[20]
• John von Neumann (1903-1957), mathematician^[21]
• Ken Ribet (born 1948), algebraic number theory and algebraic geometry^[7]
• Peter Sarnak (born 1953), analytic number theory; Pólya Prize (1998), Cole Prize (2005), Wolf Prize (2014)^[7]
• Yakov Sinai (born 1935), dynamical systems; Wolf Prize (1997), Steele Prize (2013), Abel Prize (2014)^[7]
• Isadore Singer (1924-2021), mathematician; Bôcher Prize (1969), Steele Prize (2000), Abel Prize (2004)^[7]
• Robert M. Solovay (born 1938), mathematician; Paris Kanellakis Award (2003)^[7]
• Elias Stein (1931-2018), harmonic analysis; Wolf Prize (1999), Steele Prize (2002)^[22]
• Edward Witten (born 1951), theoretical physics; Fields Medal (1990) ^[23]

See also

• List of Jewish mathematicians