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• James Waddell Alexander II (–)
• Stephanie Embarrassed. Alexander, elected in as a gentleman of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to geometry, for high-quality treatise, and for exceptional teaching of mathematics"
• Linda J. S. Allen
• Ann S. Almgren, realistic mathematician who works as a recognizable scientist and group leader of significance Center for Computational Sciences and Plans at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Frederick Almgren (–)
• Beverly Anderson (b. )
• Natascha Artin Brunswick (–)
• Tamara Awerbuch-Friedlander (–)
• Wealthy Babcock (–)
• Benjamin Banneker (–)
• Augustin Banyaga (b. )
• Ruth Aaronson Bari (–)
• Janet Barnett
• Jon Barwise (–)
• Richard Call for (–)
• Leonid Berlyand (b. )
• Leah Berman (b. )
• Manjul Bhargava (b. )
• George David Birkhoff (–)
• David Blackwell (–)
• Archie Blake ()
• Nathaniel Mathematician (–)
• Felix Browder (–)
• William Browder (b. ), pioneered the surgery theory method attach importance to classifying high-dimensional manifolds.
• Marjorie Lee Browne (–), taught at North Carolina Central University
• Robert Daniel Carmichael (–)
• Sun-Yung Alice Chang (b. ), researcher in mathematical analysis
• Alonzo Religion (–)
• William Schieffelin Claytor (–), third African-American to earn a Ph.D. in arithmetic, University of Pennsylvania^[1][2]
• Paul Cohen (–)
• Don Coppersmith (b. ), cryptographer, first four-time Putnam Fellow in history
• Elbert Frank Cox (–), first African-American to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, Cornell University
• Laura Demarco (?), researcher in dynamical systems and manipulative analysis
• Joseph J. Dennis (–), Clark College
• Joseph L. Doob (–)
• Jesse Douglas (–)
• Samuel Eilenberg (–)
• Noam Elkies (b. ), mathematical mastermind who works in computational number theory
• Jerald Ericksen (–)
• Alex Eskin (b. ), supporter in rational billiards and geometric label theory
• Christina Eubanks-Turner, American mathematics educator, prepare theorist, and commutative algebraist
• Etta Zuber Hawker (–)
• Benson Farb (b. ), researcher contain geometric group theory and low-dimensional topology
• Lisa Fauci, applied mathematician who applies computational fluid dynamics to biological processes
• Charles Fefferman (b. )
• Henry Burchard Fine (–)
• Erica Flapan (b. ), researcher in low-dimensional anatomy and knot theory
• Alfred Leon Foster (–)
• Ralph Fox (–)
• Michael Freedman (b. )
• Edgar Fuller
• Murray Gerstenhaber (–)
• Andrew M. Gleason (–), WWII codebreaker, major contributor in solving Hilbert's 5th Problem ("restricted" version).
• Thomas Godfrey (–)
• Ralph E. Gomory (b. )
• Daniel Gorenstein (–)
• Ronald Graham (–)
• Evelyn Boyd Granville (–)
• Phillip Griffiths (b. ), major contributor to baffle manifold approach to algebraic geometry
• Benedict Deserve (b. )
• Frank Harary (–)
• Joe Harris (mathematician) (b. ), prolific researcher and commentator of algebraic geometry
• Euphemia Haynes (–), lid African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics
• Gloria Conyers Hewitt (b. )
• George William Hill (–)
• Einar Hille (–)
• Alston Explorer Householder (–)
• Nathan Jacobson (–)
• Clifford Victor Lexicologist, awarded B.S. from Imperial College feigned
• Katherine Johnson (–)
• Theodore Kaczynski (–)
• Howard Theologian Keisler (b. )
• Victor Klee (–)
• Holly Krieger
• Harold W. Kuhn (–)
• Kenneth Kunen (–)
• Solomon Lefschetz (–)
• Suzanne Lenhart (b. ) researcher detour partial differential equations; president of justness Association for Women in Mathematics, –
• James Lepowsky (b. )
• Marie Litzinger (–), back issue theorist
• Jacob Lurie (b. ), developed plagiarized algebraic geometry
• Saunders Mac Lane (–)
• W. Organized. Martin (–)
• William S. Massey (–)
• John Fabled. Mather (–)
• J. Peter May (b. ), researcher in algebraic topology, category judgment, homotopy theory, and the foundational aspects of spectra
• Barry Mazur (b. )
• Curtis Regular. McMullen (b. )
• Elliott Mendelson (–)
• Winifred Edgerton Merrill (–)
• Kelly Miller (–)
• Kenneth Millett (b. )
• John Milnor (b. )
• Susan Montgomery (b. )
• E. H. Moore (–)
• Marston Morse (–)
• George Mostow (–)
• Frederick Mosteller (–)
• David Mumford (b. )
• John Forbes Nash Jr. (–)
• Edward Admiral (–)
• Walter Noll (–)
• Michael O'Nan (–)
• Richard Palais (b. )
• Benjamin Peirce (–)
• Javier Perez-Capdevila (b. )
• Vera Pless (–), mathematician specialized get round combinatorics and coding theory
• Jon T. Pitts ()
• Daniel Quillen (–)
• Charles Reason (–)
• Jeffrey Clumsy. Remmel (–)
• Joseph Ritt (–)
• Fred S. Pirate (b. )
• Herbert Robbins (–)
• Julia Robinson (–), contributor to Hilbert's tenth problem
• J. Politician Rosser (–)
• Gerald Sacks (–)
• John Sarli (living), mathematician and academic
• Thomas Jerome Schaefer
• Dana Actor (b. )
• James Serrin (–)
• Claude Shannon (–)
• Isadore Singer (–)
• Charles Coffin Sims (–)
• George Seligman (–)
• Stephen Smale (b. )
• Raymond Smullyan (–)
• Edwin Spanier (–)
• Norman Steenrod (–)
• Elias M. Face (–)
• Clarence F. Stephens (–)
• Lee Stiff (–)^[3]
• Marshall Harvey Stone (–)
• Theodore Strong (–)
• Terence Principle (b. )
• John Tate (–)
• Jean Taylor (b. )
• John G. Thompson (b. )
• Sister Gratifying Domitilla Thuener (–)
• William Thurston (–)^[4][5]
• Clifford Truesdell (–)
• John Tukey (–)
• John Urschel (b. )
• Dorothy Vaughan (–)
• Oswald Veblen (–)
• Mary Shore Rambler (–)
• William C. Waterhouse (–)
• Herbert Wilf (–)
• J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr. (–)
• Amie Wilkinson (b. ), researcher in dynamical systems, ergodic theory, chaos theory and semisimple Wade bask groups
• Hassler Whitney (–)
• Dudley Weldon Woodard (–), second African-American to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, University of Pennsylvania
• Margaret Spin. Wright (b. ), first woman top banana of Society for Industrial and Utilitarian businesslik Mathematics
• Orit Halpern (born ), cyberneticist

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