This list of Jewish mathematicians includes mathematicians and statisticians who are or were verifiably Jewish or of Jewish descent. In 1933, when the Nazis rose to power in Germany, one-third of all mathematics professors in the country were Jewish, while Jews constituted less than one percent of the population. Jewish mathematicians made major contributions throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, as is evidenced by their high representation among the winners of major mathematics awards: 27% for the Fields Medal, 30% for the Abel Prize, and 40% for the Wolf Prize.
A Abner of Burgos (), mathematician and philosopher Abraham Abigdor (14th century), logician Milton Abramowitz (1915–1958), mathematician Samson Abramsky (born 1953), game semantics Amir Aczel (1950–2015), history of mathematics Georgy Adelson-Velsky (1922–2014), mathematician and computer scientist Abraham Adelstein (1916–1992), statistics Caleb Afendopolo (c. 1430c. 1499), mathematician, astronomer, poet, and rabbi Aaron Afia (16th century), mathematician, physician and philosopher Shmuel Agmon (1922–2025), mathematical analysis and partial differential equations Matest Agrest (1915–2005), mathematician and pseudoscientist Ron Aharoni (born 1952), combinatorics Bendich Ahin (14th century), mathematician and physician Michael Aizenman (born 1945), mathematician and physicist Naum Akhiezer (1901–1980), approximation theory Isaac Albalia (1035–1094), mathematician, astronomer, and Talmudist Abraham Adrian Albert (1905–1972), algebra; Cole Prize (1939) Félix Alcan (1841–1925), mathematician Semyon Alesker (born 1972), convex and integral geometry; Erdős Prize (2004) Al-Samawal al-Maghribi (c. 1130c. 1180), mathematician, astronomer and physician Noga Alon (born 1956), combinatorics and theoretical computer science; Erdős Prize (1989), Pólya Prize (2000) Franz Alt (1910–2011), mathematician and computer scientist Shimshon Amitsur (1921–1994), mathematician Jacob Anatoli ( 1194–1256), mathematician, scientist and translator Kenneth Appel (1932–2013), proved four-color theorem Zvi Arad (1942–2018), mathematician Vladimir Arnold (1937–2010), mathematician; Wolf Prize (2001) Siegfried Aronhold (1819–1884), invariant theory Nachman Aronszajn (1907–1980), mathematical analysis and mathematical logic Kenneth Arrow (1921–2017), mathematician and economist; Nobel Prize in Economics (1972) Michael Artin (born 1934), algebraic geometry Emilio Artom (1888–1952), mathematician Giulio Ascoli (1843–1869), mathematician Guido Ascoli (1887–1957), mathematician Herman Auerbach (1901–1942), mathematician Robert Aumann (born 1930), mathematician and game theorist; Nobel Prize in Economics (2005) Louis Auslander (1928–1997), mathematician Maurice Auslander (1926–1994), algebra Sheldon Axler, mathematician. Hertha Ayrton (1854–1923), mathematician and engineer
B Isaak Bacharach (1854–1942), mathematician Reinhold Baer (1902–1979), algebra Alan Baker (1939–2018), number theory Egon Balas (1922–2019), applied mathematics Yehoshua Bar-Hillel (1915–1975), mathematician, philosopher and linguist Abraham bar Hiyya (1070–1136 or 1145), mathematician, astronomer and philosopher Dror Bar-Natan (born 1966), knot theory and homology theory Ruth Barcan Marcus (1921–2012), logician Grigory Barenblatt (1927–2018), mathematician Valentine Bargmann (1908–1989), mathematician and theoretical physicist Elijah Bashyazi ( 1420–1490), mathematician, astronomer, philosopher and rabbi Hyman Bass (born 1932), algebra and mathematics education; Cole Prize (1975) Laurence Baxter (1954–1996), statistician August Beer (1825–1863), mathematician Alexander Beilinson (born 1957), mathematician; Wolf Prize (2018) Richard Bellman (1920–1984), applied mathematics Kalonymus ben Kalonymus (1286), philosopher, mathematician and translator Isaac ben Moses Eli (15th century), mathematician Jacob ben Nissim (10th century), philosopher and mathematician Judah ben Solomon (c. 1215c. 1274), mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher Paul Benacerraf (1930–2025), philosophy of mathematics Lazarus Bendavid (1762–1832), mathematician and philosopher Felix Berezin (1931–1980), mathematician and physicist Boris Berezovsky (1946–2013), mathematician and businessman Toby Berger (born 1940), information theory Stefan Bergman (1895–1977), complex analysis Paul Bernays (1888–1977), foundations of mathematics Benjamin Abram Bernstein (1881–1964), mathematical logic Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (1914–1988), applied mathematics Felix Bernstein (1878–1956), set theory Joseph Bernstein (born 1945), algebraic geometry, representation theory, and number theory Sergei Bernstein (1880–1968), mathematician Lipman Bers (1914–1993), mathematical analysis Ludwig Berwald (1883–1942), differential geometry Abram Besicovitch (1891–1970), mathematician (Karaite) Paul Biran (born 1969), symplectic and algebraic geometry; Erdős Prize (2006) Joan Birman (born 1927), topology Zygmunt Wilhelm Birnbaum (1903–2000), functional analysis and probability Max Black (1909–1988), philosopher of mathematics André Bloch (1893–1948), complex analysis Maurice Block (1816–1901), statistician Lenore Blum (born 1942), mathematician and computer scientist Leonard Blumenthal (1901–1984), mathematician Otto Blumenthal (1876–1944), mathematician Harald Bohr (1887–1951), almost periodic functions Vladimir Boltyansky (1925–2019), mathematician and educator Carl Borchardt (1817–1880), mathematical analysis Max Born (1882–1970), physicist and mathematician Moses Botarel Farissol (15th century), mathematician Salomon Bochner (1899–1982), mathematician; Steele Prize (1979) Hermann Bondi (1919–2005), mathematician Immanuel Bonfils ( 1300–1377), mathematician and astronomerBen-Menahem, Ari (2009). Historical Encyclopedia of Natural and Mathematical Sciences. Springer Verlag Valentina Borok (1931–2004), partial differential equations David Borwein (1924–2021), mathematician Jonathan Borwein (1951–2016), mathematician Peter Borwein (1953–2020), mathematician Raoul Bott (1923–2005), geometry; Steele Prize (1990) Victor Brailovsky (born 1935), mathematician and computer scientist Achi Brandt (born 1938), numerical analysis Nikolai Brashman (1796–1866), analytical geometry; Demidov Prize (1836) Alfred Brauer (1894–1985), number theory Richard Brauer (1901–1977), modular representation theory; Cole Prize (1949) Haïm Brezis (1944–2024), functional analysis and partial differential equations Selig Brodetsky (1888–1954), mathematician and President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews Jacob Bronowski (1908–1974), mathematician and science educator Robert Brooks (1952–2002), complex analysis and differential geometry Andrew Browder (1931–2019), functional analysis Felix Browder (1927–2016), nonlinear functional analysis William Browder (1934–2025), topology and differential geometry Leonid Bunimovich (born 1947), dynamical systems Leone Burton (1936–2007), mathematics education Herbert Busemann (1905–1994), convex and differential geometry
C Anneli Cahn Lax (1922–1999), mathematician Eugenio Calabi (1923–2023), mathematician; Steele Prize (1991) Georg Cantor (1845–1918), set theorist Moritz Cantor (1829–1920), historian of mathematics Sylvain Cappell (born 1946), geometric topology Leonard Carlitz (1907–1999), number theory and algebra Moshe Carmeli (1933–2007), mathematical physics Emma Castelnuovo (1913–2014), mathematics education Guido Castelnuovo (1865–1952), mathematician Wilhelm Cauer (1900–1945), mathematician Yair Censor (born 1943), computational mathematics and optimization Gregory Chaitin (born 1947), algorithmic information theory and metamathematics Herman Chernoff (1923–2026), applied mathematics and statistics Alexey Chervonenkis (1938–2014), mathematician and computer scientist David Chudnovsky (born 1947), mathematician and engineer Gregory Chudnovsky (born 1952), mathematician and engineer Maria Chudnovsky (born 1977), graph theory and combinatorial optimization Henri Cohen (born 1947), number theory Irvin Cohen (1917–1955), mathematician Joel Cohen (born 1944), mathematical biology Marion Cohen (born 1943), poet and mathematician Miriam Cohen (born 1941), algebra Paul Cohen (1934–2007), set theorist; Fields Medal (1966) Ralph Cohen (born 1952), algebraic topology and differential topology Wim Cohen (1923–2000), queueing theory Paul Cohn (1924–2006), algebraist Stephan Cohn-Vossen (1902–1936), differential geometry Ronald Coifman (born 1941), mathematician Mordecai Comtino (died ), mathematician Lionel Cooper (1915–1979), mathematician Leo Corry (born 1956), history of mathematics Mischa Cotlar (1913–2007), mathematician Richard Courant (1888–1972), mathematical analysis and applied mathematics Nathan Court (1881–1968), geometer Michael Creizenach (1789–1842), mathematician and theologian Luigi Cremona (1830–1903), mathematician Alexander Crescenzi (17th century), mathematician
D Noah Dana-Picard (born 1954), mathematician Henry Daniels (1912–2000), statistician David van Dantzig (1900–1959), topology George Dantzig (1914–2005), mathematical optimization Tobias Dantzig (1884–1956), mathematician Martin Davis (1928–2023), mathematician Philip Dawid (born 1946), statistics Max Dehn (1878–1952), topology Percy Deift (born 1945), mathematician; Pólya Prize (1998) Nissan Deliatitz (19th century), mathematician Joseph Delmedigo (1591–1655), rabbi and mathematician Ely Devons (1913–1967), statistics Persi Diaconis (born 1945), mathematician and magician Samuel Dickstein (1851–1939), mathematician and pedagogue Nathan Divinsky (1925–2012), mathematician Roland Dobrushin (1929–1995), probability theory, mathematical physics and information theory Wolfgang Doeblin (1915–1940), probabilist Domninus of Larissa ( AD), mathematician Dositheus (c. 299 - c. 201 BCE), mathematician, astronomer Jesse Douglas (1897–1965), mathematician; Fields Medal (1936), Bôcher Prize (1943) Vladimir Drinfeld (born 1954), algebraic geometry; Fields Medal (1990), Wolf Prize (2018) Louis Israel Dublin (1882–1969), statistician Aryeh Dvoretzky (1916–2008), functional analysis and probability Bernard Dwork (1923–1998), mathematician; Cole Prize (1962) Harry Dym (1938–2024), functional and numerical analysis Eugene Dynkin (1924–2014), probability and algebra; Steele Prize (1993)
E Abraham Eberlen (16th century), mathematician Ishak Efendi (1835), mathematician and engineer Bradley Efron (born 1938), statistician Andrew Ehrenberg (1926–2010), statistician Tatyana Ehrenfest (1905–1984), mathematician Leon Ehrenpreis (1930–2010), mathematician Jacob Eichenbaum (1796–1861), poet and mathematician Samuel Eilenberg (1913–1988), category theory; Wolf Prize (1986), Steele Prize (1987) Gotthold Eisenstein (1823–1852), mathematician Yakov Eliashberg (born 1946), symplectic topology and partial differential equations Noam Elkies (born 1966), number theorist, pianist, and chess composer. Jordan Ellenberg (born 1971), arithmetic geometry Emanuel Lodewijk Elte (1881–1943), mathematician David Emmanuel (1854–1941), mathematician Federigo Enriques (1871–1946), algebraic geometry Moses Ensheim (1750–1839), mathematician and poet Bernard Epstein (1920–2005), mathematician and physicist David Epstein (born 1937), hyperbolic geometry, 3-manifolds, and group theory Paul Epstein (1871–1939), number theory Paul S. Epstein (1883–1966), mathematical physics Yechiel Michel Epstein (1829–1908), rabbi and mathematician Arthur Erdélyi (1908–1977), mathematician Paul Erdős (1913–1996), mathematician; Cole Prize (1951), Wolf Prize (1983/84) Alex Eskin (born 1965), dynamical systems and group theory Gregory Eskin (born 1936), partial differential equations Theodor Estermann (1902–1991), analytic number theory
F Gino Fano (1871–1952), mathematician