21st-century American mathematicians

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American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)

Polish-born, French and American mathematician (1924–2010)

African-American mathematician

theoretical physicist and mathematician (1923–2020)

American mathematician (1917–2011)

American mathematician (born 1942)

American computer scientist (1924–2007)

Australian-American mathematician

American economist

American mathematics and science writer (1914–2010)

American philosopher

American economist and mathematician

Norwegian mathematician (1917–2007)

American mathematician

American mathematician and meteorologist (1917–2008)

American particle physicist and cosmologist

American computer scientist

American computer scientist (1931–2022); author of The Mythical Man-Month and 'No Silver Bullet' (1986), which distinguished essential from accidental complexity in software engineering

British-American scientist and businessman (born 1959)

American mathematician from Hong Kong

American mathematician

American computer scientist

American mathematician (1946–2012)

Soviet-American mathematician

British/American mathematician

American mathematician

American mathematician of Hungarian origin (1926–2025)

Belgian physicist and mathematician

Chinese-American mathematician and poet (1911-2004)

American mathematician and hedge fund manager (1938–2024)

Mathematician and Fields Medalist at Microsoft Station Q

American mathematician

American theoretical computer scientist (b.1935)

American mathematician and computer scientist

Hungarian mathematician

American mathematician

Russian-American mathematician

American actress and writer

American mathematician (1924–2021)

Hungarian-born American electrical engineer

American mathematician (1925-2019)

American mathematician and Fields medallist

American physicist and mathematician

Indian-American mathematician (1920–2023)

American mathematician (1919–2017)

American mathematician (1940–2011)

American mathematician and rocket scientist

American mathematician of Canadian origin (1925-2020)

Japanese mathematician (1930-2019)

American mathematical physicist (1944–2019)

American computer scientist (1925-2002)

Argentine mathematician

Korean-American mathematician

American mathematician (1909-2005)

Hungarian-born mathematician

American mathematician

American mathematician (1931-2018)

American mathematician

computer scientist