Wolf Prize in Mathematics
Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize in Mathematics documented in the ThankJews directory. Jews are about 40% of all recipients — while making up roughly 0.2% of the world's population.
27 documented recipients
Israel Gelfand1913
Functional analysis; Gelfand representation of Banach algebras
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Andre Weil1906
Number theory and algebraic geometry; the Weil conjectures
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Oscar Zariski1899
Algebraic geometry; the Zariski topology
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Mark Krein1907
Functional analysis; the Krein-Milman theorem
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Paul Erdős1949
Combinatorics and Graph Theory
Source: Prolific mathematician with 1500+ papers
Hans Lewy1904
Partial differential equations; the Lewy example
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Samuel Eilenberg1913
Co-founder of category theory and algebraic topology
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Peter Lax1926
Partial differential equations; Lax pairs and Lax-Milgram (Abel Prize)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro1929
Automorphic forms and representation theory
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Mikhail Gromov2009
Geometer who reshaped modern geometry; Abel Prize (2009), Wolf Prize (1993)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Joseph Keller1923
Applied mathematics; the geometric theory of diffraction
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Yakov Sinai1935
Dynamical systems and statistical mechanics (Abel Prize)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Elias Stein1931
Harmonic analysis; singular integrals and oscillatory integrals
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Raoul Bott1923
Topology; Bott periodicity theorem
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Vladimir Arnold1937
Dynamical systems; KAM theory and Arnold diffusion
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Saharon Shelah1945
Set theory and model theory; classification and PCF theory
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Gregori Margulis1946
Lie groups and ergodic theory (Fields Medal, Abel Prize)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Hillel Furstenberg1935
Ergodic theory and its links to number theory (Abel Prize)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
George Mostow1923
Mostow rigidity theorem for hyperbolic manifolds
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Peter Sarnak1953
Number theory, analysis, and quantum chaos
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Charles Fefferman1949
Harmonic analysis and PDEs (Fields Medal)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Alexander Beilinson1957
Geometric representation theory; the Beilinson conjectures
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Vladimir Drinfeld1954
Introduced quantum groups; geometric Langlands (Fields Medal)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Yakov Eliashberg1946
Symplectic and contact geometry
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
George Lusztig1946
Representation theory; Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Noga Alon2005
Israeli combinatorialist; Gödel Prize (2005), Knuth Prize (2022)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Knuth & Gödel Prizes
Adi Shamir2002
RSA Cryptography (Co-inventor)
Source: Turing Award 2002