Category
page 1Mathematicians from Illinois
Milton Friedman
American economist and statistician (1912–2006)

Ted Kaczynski
Theodore John Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist. A mathematics prodigy, he abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a reclusive primitive lifestyle and lone wolf terrorism campaign.

James Tobin
American economist (1918–2002)

Hilary Putnam
American philosopher

Richard Hamming
American mathematician and information theorist (1915–1998)
Wesley Clair Mitchell
American statistician (1874–1948)
Edith Abbott
American economist (1876-1957)
Paul Douglas
American politician and economist (1892–1976)
Ormond Stone
American astronomer (1847–1933)
David Blackwell
American mathematician (1919–2010)
Elizebeth Smith Friedman
American cryptanalyst and author (1892-1980)

Herman Goldstine
American mathematician (1913–2004)
John Allen Paulos
American mathematician
William Frederick Friedman
American cryptologist (1891–1969)
Robion Kirby
American mathematician
Edward Alsworth Ross
American sociologist (1866–1951)
Abraham H. Taub
American mathematician and physicist (1911-1999)

D. R. Fulkerson
American mathematician (1924–1976)
Alston Scott Householder
American mathematician (1904-1993)
James Glimm
American mathematician

Clark Kimberling
Mathematician, musician and composer
Peter J. Freyd
American mathematician
J. Ernest Wilkins Jr.
American nuclear physicist
Alice Ambrose
American logician (1906-2001)
George W. Whitehead
American mathematician (1918-2004)
Bernard Galler
American mathematician and computer scientist (1928–2006)
Edward Hebern
American cryptographer (1869-1952)

Daniel Biss
American mathematician and politician
Harold P. Boas
American mathematician
Mike Byster
American mathematician
Kate Claghorn
American sociologist, economist, statistician, legal scholar, and Progressive Era activist
William S. Massey
American mathematician

J. Laurie Snell
American mathematician and economist (1925–2011)
Clara Latimer Bacon
American mathematician (1866-1948)

Warren Ambrose
American mathematician (1914-1995)
Emily Riehl
American mathematician