Famous Jews Interactive

Jewish Mathematicians and Philosophers

[66] Benoit mandelbrot -- the most influential person in the history of fractals
[84] Ayn Rand -- author of 'Atlas Shrugged,' 'The Fountainhead'; philosopher: Objectivism
[80] Ludwig Wittgenstein -- Philosopher, concerned with moral and philosophical perfection
[68] John von Neumann -- Award winning mathematical genius
[72] Baruch Spinoza -- Philosopher, 1632-1677, author of 'Ethics'
[49] Karl Popper -- generally regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century.
[37] Paul Erdos -- Itinerant genius and mathematician
[30] Georg Cantor -- Father of set theory and modern logic
[20] Paul Samuelson -- Nobel Prize in Economics (first ever)
[19] Levi ben Gershon -- (Gersonides, 1288?1344) mathematician, astronomer and philosopher.
[18] Theodor Adorno -- the principal exponent of the marxist 'Frankfurt School' of social sciences
[22] John Kemeny -- Mathematician/Philosopher, co-inventor of the 'basic' computer language
[21] Isaiah Berlin -- Philosopher and Historian of Ideas, Political Theorist, 1909 - 1997
[15] David Ricardo -- one of the fathers of modern economic theory-founded 'classical school' of economics
[18] Emmy Noether -- Mathematician studying abstract algebra
[11] Walter Benjamin -- one of the most influential cultural theorists in the Marxist tradition
[18] Edmund Husserl -- Mathematician and Philosopher: 'referential consciousness'
[10] Jacques Derrida -- Controversial founder of deconstructionism
[17] Tullio Levi-Civita -- Mathematician, physicist: absolute differential calculus in the theory of relativity
[16] Herbert Simon -- Nobel prize winner in Economics: for work on decision-making
[11] Philo Judaeus -- famous Jewish-Hellenistic philosopher-greatest Jewish philosopher of his age
[14] John Harsanyi -- Winner of the Nobel prize in Economics: studied utilitarian ethics
[11] Simon Kuznets -- Nobel prize winner in Economics
[11] Reinhard Selten -- Nobel prize winner in Economics: for work on 'game equilibrium models'
[11] Franz Rosenzweig -- German-Jewish philosopher: 'The Star of Redemption', 1886-1929
[11] Dr. Isaac Hays -- The Jewish Architect of the AMA's First Code of Ethic
[6] Laurent Schwartz -- Fields Medal winner for theory of distributions