Harvard University Department of Mathematics faculty

The list Harvard University Department of Mathematics faculty includes Jacob Lurie, Augustin Banyaga, Dennis Gaitsgory, Eric Maskin and James Harris Simons. The list consists of 98 members.

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Jacob Lurie

American mathematician

Overview: Jacob Alexander Lurie (born December 7, 1977) is an American mathematician who is a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. Lurie is a 2014 MacArthur Fellow.

Date of birth: 7 December 1977

Age: 47

Nationality: American

Occupation: Mathematician

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Harvard College alumni 2,012T

International Mathematical Olympiad participants 129T

21st-century American mathematicians 1,439T
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Augustin Banyaga

American mathematician

Overview: Augustin Banyaga (born March 31, 1947) is a Rwandan-born American mathematician whose research fields include symplectic topology and contact geometry. He is currently a Professor of Mathematics at Pe ...

Date of birth: 31 March 1947

Age: 78

Nationality: American

Occupation: Mathematician

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21st-century American mathematicians 1,439T

20th-century American mathematicians 2,244T

Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars 394T
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Dennis Gaitsgory

Israeli American mathematician

Overview: Dennis Gaitsgory is a professor of mathematics at Harvard University known for his research on the geometric Langlands program. Born in what is now Moldova, he grew up in Tajikistan, before studying at ...

Nationality: Israeli

Occupation: Mathematician

Gender: Male

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Scientists from Chișinău 6T

Israeli people of Russian-Jewish descent 168T

People from Chișinău 320T
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James Harris Simons

American mathematician and billionaire

Overview: James Harris Simons (April 25, 1938 – May 10, 2024) was an American hedge fund manager, mathematician, and philanthropist. He was the founder of Renaissance Technologies, a quantitative hedge fund ...

Date of birth: 25 April 1938

Date of death: 10 May 2024

Age: 86 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Business

Gender: Male

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21st-century American Jews 7,670T

People named in the Paradise Papers 168T

UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni 531T
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Eric Maskin

American economist

Overview: Eric Stark Maskin (born December 12, 1950) is an American economist and 2007 Nobel laureate recognized with Leonid Hurwicz and Roger Myerson "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory" ...

Date of birth: 12 December 1950

Age: 74

Nationality: American

Occupation: Economist

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Fellows of the European Economic Association 64T

Nancy L. Schwartz Memorial Lecture speakers 35T

Jewish American economists 26T
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Yum-Tong Siu

Chinese mathematician

Overview: Yum-Tong Siu (Chinese: 蕭蔭堂; born May 6, 1943 in Guangzhou, China) is the William Elwood Byerly Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University.

Date of birth: 6 May 1943

Age: 82

Nationality: Chinese

Occupation: Mathematician

Gender: Male

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Alumni of St. John's College, University of Hong Kong 18T

Mathematicians from Guangdong 4T

Foreign members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences 110T
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Shigefumi Mori

Mathematician

Overview: Shigefumi Mori (森重文, Mori Shigefumi, born February 23, 1951) is a Japanese mathematician, known for his work in algebraic geometry, particularly in relation to the classification of three-folds.

Date of birth: 23 February 1951

Age: 74

Nationality: Japanese

Occupation: Mathematician

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Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences 979T

Person of Cultural Merit 57T

21st-century Japanese mathematicians 80T
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David Mumford

Mathematician

Overview: David Bryant Mumford (born 11 June 1937) is an American mathematician known for distinguished work in algebraic geometry, and then for research into vision and pattern theory. He won the Fields Medal and ...

Date of birth: 11 June 1937

Age: 88

Nationality: American

Occupation: Mathematician

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Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics 211T

21st-century American mathematicians 1,439T

Fellows of the American Mathematical Society 955T
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Raoul Bott

Hungarian-born mathematician

Overview: Raoul Bott (September 24, 1923 – December 20, 2005) was a Hungarian-American mathematician known for numerous basic contributions to geometry in its broad sense. He is best known for his Bott periodicity ...

Date of birth: 24 September 1923

Date of death: 20 December 2005

Age: 82 (age at death)

Nationality: Hungarian

Occupation: Mathematician

Gender: Male

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McGill University Faculty of Engineering alumni 73T

21st-century American mathematicians 1,439T

20th-century American mathematicians 2,244T
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Norbert Wiener

American mathematician

Overview: Norbert Wiener (November 26, 1894 – March 18, 1964) was an American mathematician and philosopher. He was a professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). A child prodigy ...

Date of birth: 26 November 1894

Date of death: 18 March 1964

Age: 69 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Mathematician

Gender: Male

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Mathematicians from Missouri 55T

Scientists from Missouri 90T

Jewish American academics 160T
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Sophie Morel

French mathematician

Overview: Sophie Morel (born 1979) is a French mathematician, specializing in number theory. She is a CNRS directrice de recherches in mathematics at École Normale supérieure de Lyon. In 2012 she received one of ...

Date of birth: 16 December 1979

Age: 45

Nationality: French

Occupation: Mathematician

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21st-century women mathematicians 283T

20th-century women mathematicians 452T

French women mathematicians 55T
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Harold Edwards (mathematician)

American mathematician

Overview: Harold Mortimer Edwards, Jr. (born August 6, 1936) is an American mathematician working in number theory, algebra, and the history and philosophy of mathematics.

Date of birth: 6 August 1936

Age: 88

Nationality: American

Occupation: Mathematician

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2020 deaths 11,737T

Mathematicians from Illinois 77T

21st-century American mathematicians 1,439T
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Nate Ackerman

American logician

Overview: Nate Ackerman (born March 4, 1978 as Nathanael Leedom Ackerman) is a British-American mathematician and wrestler. He is the son of Peter Ackerman and Joanne Leedom-Ackerman.

Date of birth: 4 March 1978

Age: 47

Nationality: British

Occupation: Philosopher

Gender: Male

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni 400T

Mathematicians from New York (state) 269T

British male sport wrestlers 123T
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Barry Mazur

American mathematician

Overview: Barry Charles Mazur (born December 19, 1937) is an American mathematician and the Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University. His contributions to mathematics include his contributions to ...

Date of birth: 19 December 1937

Age: 87

Nationality: American

Occupation: Mathematician

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Mathematicians from New York (state) 269T

Mathematics popularizers 98T

21st-century American mathematicians 1,439T
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Danny Calegari

Australian topologist

Overview: Danny Matthew Cornelius Calegari is a mathematician who is currently a professor of mathematics at the University of Chicago. His research interests include geometry, dynamical systems, low-dimensional ...

Date of birth: 24 May 1972

Age: 53

Nationality: American

Occupation: Mathematician

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20th-century Australian mathematicians 26T

21st-century American mathematicians 1,439T

Fellows of the American Mathematical Society 955T
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John Farrar (scientist)

United States scholar

Overview: John Farrar (July 1, 1779 – May 8, 1853) was an American scholar. He first coined the concept of hurricanes as “a moving vortex and not the rushing forward of a great body of the atmosphere”, after the ...

Date of birth: 1 July 1779

Date of death: 8 May 1853

Age: 73 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Mathematician

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Harvard College alumni 2,012T

Mathematicians from Massachusetts 37T

Members of the American Antiquarian Society 555T
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Horng-Tzer Yau

Taiwanese-American mathematician

Overview: Horng-Tzer Yau (Chinese: 姚鴻澤; pinyin: Yáo Hóngzé; born 1959 in Taiwan) is a Taiwanese-American mathematician. He received his B.Sc. in 1981 from National Taiwan University and his Ph.D. in 1987 ...

Date of birth: 1959

Age: 66

Nationality: Taiwanese

Occupation: Mathematician

Gender: Male

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American scientists of Taiwanese descent 41T

Simons Investigator 53T

Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences faculty 99T
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Christian Pommerenke

Danish mathematician

Overview: Christian Pommerenke (born 17 December 1933 in Copenhagen) is a mathematician known for his work in complex analysis.

Date of birth: 17 December 1933

Age: 91

Nationality: Danish

Occupation: Mathematician

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Scientists from Copenhagen 34T

Danish mathematicians 67T

Technical University of Berlin faculty 125T
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Jerry Kazdan

American mathematician

Overview: Jerry Lawrence Kazdan (born 31 October 1937 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American mathematician noted for his work in differential geometry and the study of partial differential equations. His contributions ...

Date of birth: 31 October 1937

Age: 87

Nationality: American

Occupation: Mathematician

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Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences alumni 65T

Fellows of the American Mathematical Society 955T

20th-century American mathematicians 2,244T
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Dror Bar-Natan

Israeli mathematician

Overview: Dror Bar-Natan (Hebrew: דרוֹר בָר-נָתָן; born January 30, 1966) is a professor at the University of Toronto Department of Mathematics, Canada. His main research interests include knot theory, finite type ...

Date of birth: 30 January 1966

Age: 59

Nationality: Israeli

Occupation: Mathematician

Gender: Male

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20th-century Israeli mathematicians 12T

Israeli mathematicians 164T

Topologists 378T