20th century mathematicians
James Murdoch Austin
1915 births | 2000 deaths | 20th century mathematicians | american mathematicians | american meteorologists | chaos theorists | massachusetts institute of technology alumni | massachusetts institute of technology faculty | people from concord, massachusetts | people from new zealandJames Murdoch Austin, (1915-2000) was notable for his pioneering modeling of the meteorology of air pollution, especially that of smokestack particulates. He is also notable as the doctoral advisor of the pioneer of chaos theory, Edward Norton Lorenz.
Yuan-Shih Chow
1924 births | 20th century mathematicians | 21st century mathematicians | american mathematicians | chinese americans | living peopleYuan-Shih Chow (Chinese: 周元燊, Pinyin: Zhōu Yuánshēn) (1924-), also known as Y.S.Chow or Zhou Yuanshen, is a Chinese American probabilist (mathematician). Currently he is a professor emeritus, Columbia University, USA.
He is the former chief director of the Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, and the director of the Center of Applied Statistics, Nankai University (Tianjin). He is an academician of the Academia Sinica.
John Todd (computer science)
20th century mathematicians | american mathematiciansJohn Todd (1911 Ireland - June 21, 2007, Pasadena, California) was a professor of mathematics and a pioneer in the field of numerical analysis.
He was born in Ireland and grew up near Belfast. He received his BSc degree from Queen's University in 1931, and went to St. John's College at Cambridge University.
