List of American mathematicians

This is a list of American mathematicians.

List

 * James Waddell Alexander II (1888–1971)
 * Stephanie B. Alexander, elected in 2014 as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to geometry, for high-quality exposition, and for exceptional teaching of mathematics"
 * Linda J. S. Allen
 * Ann S. Almgren, applied mathematician who works as a senior scientist and group leader of the Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
 * Frederick Almgren (1933–1997)
 * Beverly Anderson (b. 1943)
 * Natascha Artin Brunswick (1909–2003)
 * Tamara Awerbuch-Friedlander
 * Wealthy Babcock (1895–1990)
 * Benjamin Banneker (1731–1806)
 * Augustin Banyaga (b. 1947)
 * Ruth Aaronson Bari (1917–2005)
 * Janet Barnett
 * Jon Barwise (1942–2000)
 * Richard Bellman (1920–1984)
 * Leonid Berlyand (b. 1957)
 * Leah Berman (b. 1976)
 * Manjul Bhargava (b. 1974)
 * George David Birkhoff (1884–1944)
 * David Blackwell (1919–2010)
 * Archie Blake (b. 1906)
 * Nathaniel Bowditch (1773–1838)
 * Felix Browder (1927–2016)
 * William Browder (b. 1934), pioneered the surgery theory method for classifying high-dimensional manifolds.
 * Marjorie Lee Browne (1914–1979), taught at North Carolina Central University
 * Robert Daniel Carmichael (1879–1967)
 * Sun-Yung Alice Chang (b. 1948), researcher in mathematical analysis
 * Alonzo Church (1903–1995)
 * William Schieffelin Claytor (1908–1967), third African-American to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, University of Pennsylvania
 * Paul Cohen (1934–2007)
 * Don Coppersmith (b. 1950), cryptographer, first four-time Putnam Fellow in history
 * Elbert Frank Cox (1895–1969), first African-American to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, Cornell University
 * Laura Demarco (?), researcher in dynamical systems and complex analysis
 * Joseph J. Dennis (1905–1977), Clark College
 * Joseph L. Doob (1910–2004)
 * Jesse Douglas (1897–1965)
 * Samuel Eilenberg (1913–1998)
 * Noam Elkies (b. 1966), mathematical prodigy who works in computational number theory
 * Jerald Ericksen (1924–2021)
 * Alex Eskin (b. 1965), researcher in rational billiards and geometric group theory
 * Christina Eubanks-Turner, American mathematics educator, graph theorist, and commutative algebraist
 * Etta Zuber Falconer (1933–2002)
 * Benson Farb (b. 1965), researcher in geometric group theory and low-dimensional topology
 * Lisa Fauci, applied mathematician who applies computational fluid dynamics to biological processes
 * Charles Fefferman (b. 1949)
 * Henry Burchard Fine (1858–1928)
 * Erica Flapan (b. 1956), researcher in low-dimensional topology and knot theory
 * Alfred Leon Foster (1904–1994)
 * Ralph Fox (1913–1973)
 * Michael Freedman (b. 1951)
 * Murray Gerstenhaber (1927–2024)
 * Andrew M. Gleason (1921–2008), WWII codebreaker, major contributor in solving Hilbert's 5th Problem ("restricted" version).
 * Thomas Godfrey (1704–1749)
 * Ralph E. Gomory (b. 1929)
 * Daniel Gorenstein (1923–1992)
 * Ronald Graham (1935–2020)
 * Evelyn Boyd Granville (1924–2023)
 * Phillip Griffiths (b. 1938), major contributor to complex manifold approach to algebraic geometry
 * Frank Harary (1921–2005)
 * Joe Harris (mathematician) (b. 1951), prolific researcher and expositor of algebraic geometry
 * Euphemia Haynes (1890–1980), first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics
 * Gloria Conyers Hewitt (b. 1935)
 * George William Hill (1838–1914)
 * Einar Hille (1894–1980)
 * Alston Scott Householder (1904–1993)
 * Nathan Jacobson (1910–1999)
 * Clifford Victor Johnson, awarded B.S. from Imperial College in 1989
 * Katherine Johnson (1918–2020)
 * Theodore Kaczynski (1942–2023)
 * Howard Jerome Keisler (b. 1936)
 * Victor Klee (1925–2007)
 * Holly Krieger
 * Harold W. Kuhn (1925–2014)
 * Kenneth Kunen (1943–2020)
 * Solomon Lefschetz (1884–1972)
 * Suzanne Lenhart (b. 1954) researcher in partial differential equations; president of the Association for Women in Mathematics, 2001–2003
 * James Lepowsky (b. 1944)
 * Marie Litzinger (1899–1952), number theorist
 * Jacob Lurie (b. 1977), developed derived algebraic geometry
 * Saunders Mac Lane (1909–2005)
 * W. T. Martin (1911–2004)
 * William S. Massey (1920–2017)
 * John N. Mather (1942–2017)
 * J. Peter May (b. 1939), researcher in algebraic topology, category theory, homotopy theory, and the foundational aspects of spectra
 * Barry Mazur (b. 1937)
 * Curtis T. McMullen (b. 1958)
 * Elliott Mendelson (1931–2020)
 * Winifred Edgerton Merrill (1862–1951)
 * Kelly Miller (1863–1939)
 * Kenneth Millett (b. 1941)
 * John Milnor (b. 1931)
 * Susan Montgomery (b. 1943)
 * E. H. Moore (1862–1932)
 * Marston Morse (1892–1977)
 * George Mostow (1923–2017)
 * Frederick Mosteller (1916–2006)
 * David Mumford (b. 1937)
 * John Forbes Nash Jr. (1928–2015)
 * Edward Nelson (1932–2014)
 * Walter Noll (1925–2017)
 * Michael O'Nan (1943–2017)
 * Richard Palais (b. 1931)
 * Benjamin Peirce (1809–1880)
 * Javier Perez-Capdevila (b. 1963)
 * Vera Pless (1931–2020), mathematician specialized in combinatorics and coding theory
 * Daniel Quillen (1940–2011)
 * Charles Reason (1818–1893)
 * Jeffrey B. Remmel (1948–2017)
 * Joseph Ritt (1893–1951)
 * Fred S. Roberts (b. 1943)
 * Herbert Robbins (1915–2001)
 * Julia Robinson (1919–1985), contributor to Hilbert's tenth problem
 * J. Barkley Rosser (1907–1989)
 * Gerald Sacks (1933–2019)
 * Thomas Jerome Schaefer
 * Dana Scott (b. 1932)
 * James Serrin (1926–2012)
 * Claude Shannon (1916–2001)
 * Isadore Singer (1924–2021)
 * Charles Coffin Sims (1938–2017)
 * George Seligman (b. 1927)
 * Stephen Smale (b. 1930)
 * Raymond Smullyan (1919–2017)
 * Edwin Spanier (1921–1996)
 * Norman Steenrod (1910–1971)
 * Elias M. Stein (1931–2018)
 * Clarence F. Stephens (1917–2018)
 * Lee Stiff (1949–2021)
 * Marshall Harvey Stone (1903–1989)
 * Theodore Strong (1790–1869)
 * Terence Tao (b. 1975)
 * John Tate (1925–2019)
 * Jean Taylor (b. 1944)
 * John G. Thompson (b. 1932)
 * Sister Mary Domitilla Thuener (1880–1977)
 * William Thurston (1936–2012)
 * Clifford Truesdell (1919–2000)
 * John Tukey (1915–2000)
 * John Urschel (b. 1991)
 * Dorothy Vaughan (1910–2008)
 * Oswald Veblen (1880–1960)
 * Mary Shore Walker (1882–1952)
 * William C. Waterhouse (1941–2016)
 * Herbert Wilf (1931–2012)
 * J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr. (1923–2011)
 * Amie Wilkinson (b. 1968), researcher in dynamical systems, ergodic theory, chaos theory and semisimple Lie groups
 * Hassler Whitney (1907–1989)
 * Dudley Weldon Woodard (1881–1965), second African-American to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, University of Pennsylvania
 * Margaret H. Wright (b. 1944), first woman president of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics