Norbert Wiener Prize (applied math)

Jewish recipients of the Norbert Wiener Prize (applied math) documented in the ThankJews directory. Jews are about 38% of all recipients — while making up roughly 0.2% of the world's population.

38%of all recipients are Jewish

8 documented recipients

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Richard Bellman1920

Invented dynamic programming.

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science

PL

Peter Lax1926

Partial differential equations; Lax pairs and Lax-Milgram (Abel Prize)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

MA

Michael Aizenman1945

Mathematical physics; rigorous statistical mechanics

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

AC

Alexandre Chorin1938

Computational fluid dynamics; the projection method

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

HW

Harold Widom1932

Toeplitz operators; the Tracy-Widom distribution

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

MB

Marsha Berger1953

Computational fluid dynamics; adaptive mesh refinement

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

AN

Arkadi Nemirovski1947

Co-developed the ellipsoid and interior-point optimization methods.

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science

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Eitan Tadmor2022

Israeli-American pioneer of numerical methods for conservation laws; Wiener Prize (2022)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics (prize lists)