Categories: Wolf Prizes | Mathematics awards Israel Moiseevich Gelfand (Израиль Моис&#x435x;евич Гельфанд: born 1913 in Okny, Kherson, then in Russia, now Ukraine) is a prolific mathematician in the field of functional analysis, which he interprets in a broad sense as the mathematics of quantum mechanics. ... Carl Ludwig Siegel (December 31, 1896 _ April 4, 1981) was a German mathematician specialising in number theory. ... Jean Leray (7 November 1906-10 November 1998) was a French mathematician, who worked on both partial differential equations and algebraic topology. ... André Weil (May 6, 1906 - August 6, 1998) was one of the great mathematicians of the 20th century, a founding member of the influential Bourbaki group. ... Henri Cartan (born July 8, 1904) is a son of Elie Cartan, and is, as his father was, a distinguished and influential mathematician. ... Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (Андре́й Никола́евич Колмого́ров) (kahl-mah-GAW-raff) (April 25, 1903 in Tambov - October 20, 1987 in Moscow) was a Russian mathematician who made major advances in the fields of probability theory and topology. ... Lars Valerian Ahlfors (April 18, 1907 - October 11, 1996) was a Finnish mathematician, remembered for his work in the field of Riemann surfaces and his text on complex analysis. ... Oscar Zariski was one of the most influential mathematicians working in the field of algebraic geometry in the twentieth century. ... Hassler Whitney (23 March 1907 – 10 May 1989) was an American mathematician, who was one of the founders of singularity theory. ... Mark Grigorievich Krein (3 April 1907 - 17 October 1989) was a Ukrainian-Jewish mathematician, one of the major figures of the Soviet school of mathematics. ... Shiing-shen CHERN (陳省身; pinyin: Chén Xǐngshēn; October 26, 1911–December 3, 2004) was a Chinese mathematician, who was one of the leading differential geometers of the twentieth century. ... Paul ErdÅ‘s Paul ErdÅ‘s (March 26, 1913 – September 20, 1996) was an immensely prolific and famously eccentric mathematician who, with hundreds of collaborators, worked on problems in combinatorics, graph theory, number theory, classical analysis, approximation theory, set theory and probability theory. ... Kunihiko Kodaira (小平 邦彦 Kodaira Kunihiko, 16 March 1915 – 26 July 1997) was a Japanese mathematician known for distinguished work in algebraic geometry and the theory of complex manifolds; and as the founder of the Japanese school of algebraic geometers. ... Hans Lewy (1904 - 1988) was an American mathematician, known for his work on partial differential equations. ... Samuel Eilenberg (September 30, 1913-January 30, 1998) was a Polish mathematician. ... Atle Selberg (born June 17, 1917) is a Norwegian mathematician, one of the greatest analytic number theorists of all time. ... Kiyoshi Itô Kiyoshi Itô (born September 7, 1915) is a Japanese mathematician, was born in Hokusei-cho, Mie Prefecture Japan. ... Peter David Lax (born 1926) is a highly-respected mathematician working in the areas of pure and applied mathematics. ... Friedrich E.P. Hirzebruch (born 17 October 1927) is a German mathematician, working in the fields of topology, complex manifolds and algebraic geometry, and a leading figure in his generation. ... Lars Hörmander Lars Valter Hörmander (born 24 January 1931) is a Swedish mathematician and one of the leading experts in partial differential equations. ... Alberto P Calderón (b. ... John Willard Milnor (b. ... Ennio de Giorgi (1928 - 1996) was an Italian mathematician. ... Ilya Pyatetskii-Shapiro is a mathematician, well known for contributions to the theory of Fourier series, bounded homogeneous domains and associated discrete groups, automorphic forms, and algebraic geometry. ... Lennart Carleson (b. ... John Griggs Thompson (born 13 Oct 1932) is a mathematician noted for his work in the field of finite groups. ... See Mikhail Gromov (disambiguation) for other people with this name. ... Jacques Tits (born August 12, 1930) is a Belgian mathematician. ... Jurgen Moser (1928 – 1999) was an American mathematician who specialized in dynamical systems. ... Robert Langlands (born 1936 in Canada) is one of the most significant mathematicians of the 20th century, with profound insights in number theory and representation theory. ... Andrew John Wiles (born April 11, 1953) is a British mathematician living in the United States. ... Joseph B. Keller is an American mathematician who specializes in applied mathematics. ... Yakov G. Sinai is an American mathematician, born in the USSR, who specializes in dynamical systems. ... László Lovász (1948-) is a Hungarian mathematician, known for work in combinatorics, for which he was in 1999 awarded a Wolf Prize. ... Elias M. Stein (born January 13, 1931) is a mathematician born in Belgium. ... Raoul Bott (born September 24, 1923) is a mathematician known for numerous basic contributions to geometry in its broad sense. ... Jean-Pierre Serre (born September 15, 1926) is one of the leading mathematicians of the twentieth century, active in algebraic geometry, number theory and topology. ... Vladimir Igorevich Arnold (Влади́мир И́горевич Арно́льд, born June 12, 1937 in Odessa, USSR) is one of the worlds most prolific mathematicians. ... Saharon Shelah (שהרן שלח, born July 3, 1945 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli mathematician. ... Mikio Sato (佐藤 幹夫, born April 18, 1928) is a Japanese mathematician, working in what he calls algebraic analysis. ... You may be looking for John Tate (boxer) John Torrence Tate, born March 13, 1925 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is an American mathematician, distinguished for many fundamental contributions in algebraic number theory and related areas in algebraic geometry. ... Gregori Aleksandrovich Margulis (first name often given as Gregory, Grigori or Grigory) (born February 24, 1946) is a mathematician known for his far-reaching work on lattices in Lie groups, and the introduction of methods from ergodic theory into diophantine approximation. ... Sergei Petrovich Novikov (also Serguei) (Russian: Сергей Петрович Новиков) (b. ...