List of second-generation mathematicians

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Math ability is passed from parent to child [1] with the most famous example being the Bernoulli family.[2] This second generation phenomenon also holds in physics [3] but in that field the Nobel prize gives a tool for tracking it, since it has been given out for more than 120 years, and there are on average more than two Nobel prizes in physics given each year.[4] There is no comparable award in mathematics [5] but perusing (for example) the MacTutor [6] list of biographies enables the construction of a similar list of notable two-generation pairs of mathematicians.

The following is a list of parent-child pairs who both made contributions to mathematics signficiant enough to be noted in the citation for a prestigious prize, in an obituary in a major math journal, or in a similarly authoritative source. All are father-son except for Emmy Noether and Cathleen Morawetz. The list is in chronological order by birth date of the parent.

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Johann BernoulliL'Hôpital's rule
catenary
brachistochrone curve
Daniel BernoulliBernoulli's principle
Gamma function
Farkas BolyaiWallace–Bolyai–Gerwien theorem Janos Bolyai Non-Euclidean geometry
Elie CartanStructure of Lie groups
exterior algebra
moving frame
Henri CartanCartan's theorems A and B
Projective module
Émile Picard Medal
Wolf Prize
Max NoetherBrill–Noether theory
Noether's formula
Noether inequality
Emmy NoetherNoether's theorem
Noetherian Property
George David Birkhoff Ergodic Theorem Bocher Memorial Prize Garrett BirkhoffUniversal algebra George David Birkhoff Prize
J. L. SyngeSynge's theorem Cathleen Morawetz

Work on equations of mixed type, with its striking consequences for the theory of flow around airfoils, work on local energy decay for waves in the complement of an obstacle, and results concerning the existence of transonic flow with shocks. [7]

Leroy P. Steele Prize
Emil ArtinSolved Hilbert's seventeenth problem
partially solved Hilbert's ninth problem
Michael ArtinArtin approximation theorem
Algebraic spaces
Leroy P. Steele Prize
Wolf Prize
Petr NovikovWord problem for groups Sergei NovikovAdams–Novikov spectral sequence
Surgery theory
Fields Medal
Jacques-Louis Lions

With Giovanni Prodi independently proved the uniqueness of weak solutions in dimension two of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. With 0. A. Ladyzhenskaya, ]. Serrin, and others, contributed to the beginning of the modern theory of mathematical fluid dynamics. Work with Emico Magenes on nonhomogeneous boundary value problems, which led eventually to the publication of a three-volume book in 1968. [8]

John von Neumann Prize
Japan Prize
Pierre-Louis LionsBreakthrough 1983 paper with M.G. Crandall, which introduced "viscosity solutions" for Hamilton-Jacobi equations. Extraordinary 1989 paper with R. J. DiPerna, the first mathematical work to show rigorously the existence of solutions to Boltzmann's equation for the density of colliding hard spheres, with general initial data. [9] Fields Medal
Joram Lindenstrauss

Characterization (joint with L. Tzafriri) of the Hilbert space as the unique Banach space all of whose closed subspaces are complemented (solution of a 1930 Banach and Mazur's problem). [10]

Israel Prize
Stefan Banach Medal
Elon Lindenstraussmajor advance on Littlewood conjecture Fields Medal
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