Name a famous American Mathematician....thanks
2007-02-02 11:54:39 · 9 answers · asked by esage321 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
By the way, no one mentioned so far is American...
Dr. John Nash of Princeton University, also known for the movie "The Beautiful Mind", which was about his life and his disease.
2007-02-02 11:58:31 · answer #1 · answered by copenhagen smile 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gary Patrik, Gary Venter, Steve Philbrick, Sholom Feldblum.
These are American actuaries.
2007-02-02 20:12:39 · answer #2 · answered by fcas80 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How about President James Garfield? He came up with a proof for the Pythagorean Theorem.
2007-02-02 20:16:37 · answer #3 · answered by Pythagoras 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Marilyn vos Savant
John Forbes Nash (think "A Beautiful Mind")
2007-02-02 19:58:11 · answer #4 · answered by mjatthebeeb 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A
* Hal Abelson
* Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar
* Alexander Abian
* Ralph Abraham
* Irving Adler
* George Adomian
* Robert Adrain
* Yousef Alavi
* Abraham Adrian Albert
* J. W. Alexander
* W. R. (Red) Alford
* Stephen Altschul
* Benjamin Alvord (mathematician)
* Warren Ambrose
* Robert Ammann
* Titu Andreescu
* George Andrews
* Peter Andrews
* Nesmith Ankeny
* Igor Ansoff
* Tom M. Apostol
* Kenneth Appel
* Richard Friedrich Arens
* Richard Arenstorf
* Emil Artin
* Michael Artin
* William Arveson
* Michael Aschbacher
* Richard Askey
* A. O. L. Atkin
* Robert Axelrod
B
* John Backus
* Steve Baer
* John C. Baez
* C. Olin Ball
* Thomas Banchoff
* Leon Bankoff
* Augustin Banyaga
* Mark Barr
* Reid W. Barton
* Hyman Bass
* James Earl Baumgartner
* Dave Bayer
* Eric Temple Bell
* Richard Bellman
* Elwyn Berlekamp
* Bruce C. Berndt
* Daniel J. Bernstein
* RH Bing
* Garrett Birkhoff
* George David Birkhoff
* Joan Birman
* Errett Bishop
* Woody Bledsoe
* Gilbert Ames Bliss
* Lenore Blum
* Leonard Blumenthal
* Michael Boardman
* Ralph P. Boas, Jr
* Maxime Bôcher
* Salomon Bochner
* Hendrik Wade Bode
* Ronald V. Book
* Steven Boone
* Raoul Bott
* Nathaniel Bowditch
B cont.
* Carl Benjamin Boyer
* Steven Brams
* Richard Brauer
* Joel Brawley
* Leo Breiman
* Fred Brooks
* Harlan J. Brothers
* William Browder (mathematician)
* Richard G. Brown
* Leonid Bunimovich
* Arthur Burks
C
* Luis Caffarelli
* Florian Cajori
* Eugenio Calabi
* Robert Calderbank
* Joseph Caldwell
* James Cannon (mathematician)
* Robert Daniel Carmichael
* Gabriel D. Carroll
* Alexis Caswell
* Gregory Chaitin
* Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
* Jeff Cheeger
* William Chen
* Shiing-Shen Chern
* Herman Chernoff
* Chudnovsky brothers
* Fan Chung
* Alonzo Church
* John Cocke
* Marion Cohen
* Paul Cohen (mathematician)
* Frank Nelson Cole
* Levi L. Conant
* Robert Connelly
* Constance Reid
* John B. Conway
* Matthew Cook
* James Cooley
* Arthur Herbert Copeland
* Don Coppersmith
* Richard Courant
* Elbert Frank Cox
* Gertrude Mary Cox
* Ernie Croot
* Haskell Curry
* Bill Cutler
* JakÅ¡a CvitaniÄ
D
* George Dantzig
* Martin Davis
* Philip J. Davis
* Carl R. de Boor
* Louis de Branges de Bourcia
* Max Dehn
* William A. Dembski
* John E. Dennis
* Dennis DeTurck
* Persi Diaconis
* Leonard Eugene Dickson
* Jeff Dinitz
* Michael Dinneen
* Joseph Leo Doob
* Jesse Douglas
* Melvin Dresher
* Richard M. Dudley
* Underwood Dudley
* Dunham Jackson
D cont.
* Stanley Dunin
* Bernard Dwork
* Eugene Dynkin
* Freeman Dyson
E
* Annie Easley
* Thomas William Edmondson
* David Eisenbud
* Luther P. Eisenhart
* Noam Elkies
* Paul Sophus Epstein
* Lawrence C. Evans
* Howard Eves
F
* Mary Celine Fasenmyer
* Charles Fefferman
* Mitchell Feigenbaum
* Walter Feit
* William Feller
* Nathan Fine
* Benjamin Finkel
* Thomas Fiske
* George Fix
* Joseph L. Fleiss
* Yuval Flicker
* L. R. Ford
* L. R. Ford, Jr.
* Ralph Fox
* Michael Freedman
* B. Roy Frieden
* Harvey Friedman
* Kurt O. Friedrichs
* Edgar Frisby
* John Fry
G
* Bernard Galler
* Tudor Ganea
* Martin Gardner
* Israel Gelfand
* Josiah Willard Gibbs
* Wallace Givens
* Alexander Givental
* Andrew Gleason
* Kurt Gödel
* Marcel J. E. Golay
* Dorian M. Goldfeld
* Herman Goldstine
* Daniel Goldston
* Michael Golomb
* Solomon W. Golomb
* Gene H. Golub
* Daniel Gorenstein
* Bill Gosper
* Ronald Graham
* Sidney Graham
* William Anthony Granville
* Alfred Gray
* Thomas N.E. Greville
* Phillip Griffiths
* Benedict Gross
* Rami Grossberg
* Edna Grossman
* Branko Grünbaum
H
* James Hadley
* R. Stanton Hales
* Thomas Callister Hales
* Marshall Hall (mathematician)
* Paul Halmos
* G. B. Halsted
Wikipedia had 400 more names, check them out, they'll have a lot of good sources
2007-02-02 20:02:09 · answer #5 · answered by timebomb182 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
how about a famous black one? Benjamin Banneker! it is black history month
2007-02-02 20:04:36 · answer #6 · answered by nylatinanurse 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
was spearman american
or was he a statistition?
hmm...
oooo i like that film
2007-02-02 19:59:25 · answer #7 · answered by KerzaSmith 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
archimedes
2007-02-02 19:58:12 · answer #8 · answered by leo 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
descartes
newton
pascal
pythagorias
2007-02-02 19:57:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋