Topologists

Sibe Mardešić (June 20, 1927- June 18, 2016) was a Croatian mathematician.

William Bernard Raymond Lickorish (born 19 February 1938) is a mathematician.

Frank Stringfellow Quinn, III (born 1946) is an American mathematician and professor of mathematics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, specializing in geometric topology.

Richard K. Lashof (November 9, 1922 – February 4, 2010) was an American mathematician.

Ulrike Luise Tillmann FRS (born 12 December 1962) is a mathematician specializing in algebraic topology, who has made important contributions to the study of the moduli space of algebraic curves.

Greg Kuperberg (born July 4, 1967) is a Polish-born American mathematician known for his contributions to geometric topology, quantum algebra, and combinatorics.

Italo Jose Dejter (Bahia Blanca, 1939) is an Argentine-born American mathematician and a professor at the University of Puerto Rico (UPRRP) since 1984.

Franklin Paul Peterson (1930–2000) was an American mathematician specializing in algebraic topology.

Sze-Tsen Hu (胡世楨 also known as Steve Hu, 9 October 1914 – 6 May 1999) was a Chinese-American mathematician, specializing in homotopy theory.

Edwin Henry Spanier (August 8, 1921 – October 11, 1996) was an American mathematician at the University of California at Berkeley, working in algebraic topology.

Steven Paul Kerckhoff (born 1952) is a professor of mathematics at Stanford University, who works on hyperbolic 3-manifolds and Teichmüller spaces.

Erika Pannwitz (May 26, 1904 in Hohenlychen, Germany – November 25, 1975 in Berlin) was a German mathematician who worked in the area of geometric topology.

Daniel Kálmán Biss (born 1977 in Akron, Ohio) is an American mathematician and member of the Illinois Senate from the 9th district, serving since January 2013.

Johannes de Groot (May 7, 1914 – September 11, 1972) was a Dutch mathematician, the leading Dutch topologist for more than two decades following World War II.

John Edwin Luecke is an American mathematician who works in topology and knot theory.

The fictitious mathematician John Rainwater was created as a student prank but has become known as the author of important results in functional analysis.

Clifford Hugh Dowker (/ˈdaʊkər/; March 2, 1912 – October 14, 1982) was a topologist known for his work in point-set topology and also for his contributions in category theory, sheaf theory and knot theory.

Edwin Evariste Moise (/moʊˈiːz/; December 22, 1918 – December 18, 1998)was an American mathematician and mathematics education reformer.

J. (Joachim) Hyam Rubinstein FAA (born 7 March 1948, in Melbourne) is an Australian mathematician specialising in low-dimensional topology, serving as a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne.

Jeffrey Henderson Smith is a former professor of mathematics at Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana.

Jeffrey Renwick Weeks (born December 10, 1956) is an American mathematician, a geometric topologist and cosmologist.

Thomas "Tim" Daniel Cochran (April 7, 1955 – December 16, 2014) was a professor of Mathematics at Rice University specializing in topology, especially low-dimensional topology, the theory of knots and links and associated algebra.

Mary Ellen Rudin (December 7, 1924 – March 18, 2013) was an American mathematician known for her work in set-theoretic topology.

Krystyna M. Kuperberg (born Krystyna M. Trybulec; 17 July 1944) is a Polish-American mathematician who currently works as a professor of mathematics at Auburn University and is the former Alumni Professor of Mathematics there.

Erica Flapan (born August 14, 1956) is an American mathematician, the Lingurn H.

Professor George Michael ("Mike") Reed is an American computer scientist.

Ciprian Manolescu (born on December 24, 1978) is a Romanian-American mathematician, working in gauge theory, symplectic geometry, and low-dimensional topology.

Kalyan Kumar Mukherjea (1943–2010) was an authority on Indian classical music, particularly the Senia Shahjahanpur Gharana (school) of Sarod.

George Whitelaw Mackey (February 1, 1916 in St. Louis, Missouri – March 15, 2006 in Belmont, Massachusetts) was an American mathematician.

(For other people named Frank Adams, see Frank Adams (disambiguation).) John Frank Adams FRS (5 November 1930 – 7 January 1989) was a British mathematician, one of the founders of homotopy theory.

Valentin Alexandre Poénaru (born 1932) is a Professor of Mathematics at Université de Paris-Sud.

Jack Johnson Morava is an American homotopy theorist at Johns Hopkins University.

John Coleman Moore (May 27, 1923 – January 1, 2016) was an American mathematician.

Jon Peter May (born September 16, 1939 in New York) is an American mathematician, working in the fields of algebraic topology, category theory, homotopy theory, and the foundational aspects of spectra.

(This article is about the mathematician. For the athlete, see Morton Browne.) Morton Brown (born August 12, 1931, in New York City, New York) is an American mathematician, who specializes in geometric topology.

Elon Lages Lima (born July 9, 1929 in Maceió) is a Brazilian mathematician whose research concerns differential topology, algebraic topology, and differential geometry.

Robert Mark Goresky (born 1950) is a Canadian mathematician who invented intersection homology with Robert MacPherson.

John Michael Boardman is a mathematician whose speciality is algebraic and differential topology.

Danny M. C. Calegari (born 24 May 1972) is an Australian-American mathematician at the University of Chicago.

William Browder (born January 6, 1934) is an American mathematician, specializing in algebraic topology, differential topology and differential geometry.

Robert Lee Moore (November 14, 1882 – October 4, 1974) was an American mathematician, known for his work in general topology and the Moore method of teaching university mathematics.

Graeme Bryce Segal FRS (born 21 December 1941) is an Australian mathematician, and professor at the University of Oxford.

Georg Feigl (October 13, 1890 – April 20, 1945) was a German mathematician.

Isaac Namioka (born April 25, 1928) is a Japanese-American mathematician who has worked in general topology and functional analysis.

Gordon Thomas Whyburn (7 January 1904 Lewisville, Texas – 8 September 1969 Charlottesville, Virginia) was an American mathematician who worked on topology.

Yair Nathan Minsky (born in 1962) is an American mathematician whose research concerns three-dimensional topology, differential geometry, group theory and holomorphic dynamics.

Richard Douglas Canary (born in 1962) is an American mathematician working mainly on low-dimensional topology.

F. Thomas Farrell (born November 14, 1941 Ohio, United States) is a U.

Vijay Kumar Patodi (12 March 1945 – 21 December 1976) was an Indian mathematician who made fundamental contributions to differential geometry and topology.

Włodzimierz Kuperberg (born January 19, 1941) is a professor of mathematics at Auburn University, with research interests in geometry and topology.

Józef Henryk Przytycki (/ˌjuːsəf pʃəˈtɪski/; Polish: [ˈjuzɛf pʂɨˈtɨt͡ski]; born October 1953 in Warsaw, Poland), is a mathematician specializing in the fields of knot theory and topology.

Arthur Harold Stone (30 September 1916 – 6 August 2000) was a British mathematician born in London, who worked mostly in topology.

James Raymond Munkres (born August 18, 1930) is a Professor Emeritus of mathematics at MIT and the author of several texts in the area of topology, including Topology (an undergraduate-level text), Analysis on Manifolds, Elements of Algebraic Topology, and Elementary Differential Topology.

Peter B. Shalen (born c. 1944) is an American mathematician, working primarily in low-dimensional topology.

Tudor Ganea (1922–1971) was a Romanian mathematician, known for his work in algebraic topology, especially homotopy theory.

William Schumacher Massey (born August 23, 1920) is an American mathematician, known for his work in algebraic topology.

Thomas Penyngton Kirkman FRS (31 March 1806 – 3 February 1895) was a British mathematician and ordained minister of the Church of England.

Klaus Wagner (March 31, 1910 – February 6, 2000) was a German mathematician.

Nikolai V. Ivanov (in Russian: Николай В. Иванов, born in 1954) is a Russian mathematician who works on topology, geometry and group theory (particularly, modular Teichmüller groups).

Ronald John Stern is a mathematician who works on topology, geometry, and gauge theory.

Alice Turner Schafer (June 18, 1915 – September 27, 2009) was an American mathematician.

Marc Edward Culler (born November 22, 1953) is an American mathematician who works in geometric group theory and low-dimensional topology.

Mitrofan Cioban (born 5 January 1942) is a Moldovan mathematician, a member of the Academy of Science of Moldova (2000).

Rick Norwood (b. August 4, 1942) is an American publisher, mathematician, comics historian and short story author.

Hellmuth Kneser (16 April 1898 – 23 August 1973) was a Baltic German mathematician, who made notable contributions to group theory and topology.

Albert William Tucker (28 November 1905 – 25 January 1995) was a Canadian mathematician who made important contributions in topology, game theory, and non-linear programming.

William Richard Maximilian Hugo Threlfall (25 June 1888 Dresden – 4 April 1949 Oberwolfach) was a German mathematician who worked on algebraic topology.

Hermann Lorenz Künneth (July 6, 1892 Neustadt an der Haardt – May 7, 1975 Erlangen) was a German mathematician and renowned algebraic topologist, best known for his contribution to what is now known as the Künneth theorem.

Poul Heegaard (November 2, 1871, Copenhagen - February 7, 1948, Oslo) was a Danish mathematician active in the field of topology.

Sumner Byron Myers (February 19, 1910 – October 8, 1955) was an American mathematician specialized in topology.

James Dugundji (August 30, 1919 – January, 1985) was an American mathematician, a professor of mathematics at the University of Southern California.

Gilles Châtelet (2 February 1944 – 11 June 1999) was a French philosopher and mathematician.

José Ádem Chaín (born in Tuxpan, Veracruz, October 27, 1921; died February 14, 1991) was a Mexican mathematician who worked in algebraic topology, and proved the Ádem relations between Steenrod squares.

Colin Conrad Adams (born October 13, 1956) is a mathematician primarily working in the areas of hyperbolic 3-manifolds and knot theory.

Herbert Kenneth Kunen (born August 2, 1943) is an emeritus professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who works in set theory and its applications to various areas of mathematics, such as set-theoretic topology and measure theory.

Cameron Gordon (born 1945) is a Professor and Sid W.

Jerome Paul Levine (May 4, 1937 – April 8, 2006) was a mathematician who contributed to the understanding of knot theory.