MIT Mathematics Faculty

Members of the Mathematics Faculty since the founding of the Institute

Names marked with an asterisk served as department heads. The span of dates listed show how long the individual was an active faculty member. Years as an instructor or emeritus professor were not counted. To report inaccurate information, please contact .

John D. Runkle 1865-1902
George A. Osborne 1870-1909
Webster Wells 1883-1909
Harry W. Tyler* 1890-1930
Dana P. Bartlett 1892-1929
Frederick H. Bailey 1893-1935
Frederick S. Woods* 1895-1934
Joseph J. Skinner 1896-1903
Nathan R. George, Jr. 1906-1936
Edwin B. Wilson 1907-1922
Leonard M. Passano 1908-1935
Clarence L. E. Moore 1909-1931
Henry B. Phillips* 1915-1947
Joseph Lipka 1917-1924
Frank L. Hitchcock 1917-1946
George Rutledge 1923-1941
Norbert Wiener 1926-1960
Philip Franklin 1927-1964
Dirk Jan Struik 1928-1960
Lepine Hall Rice 1929-1932
Jesse Douglas 1930-1936
Raymond D. Douglass 1931-1960
Samuel D. Zeldin 1931-1960
Eberhard Hopf 1932-1936
Prescott D. Crout 1936-1960s
Robert H. Cameron 1937-1946
William T. Martin* 1939-1976
George P. Wadsworth 1938-1974
Norman Levinson* 1939-1975 (NAS Biography)
Alfred H. Clifford 1941-1947
Eric Reissner 1942-1969
Francis B. Hildebrand 1940-1984
Raphael Salem 1943-1957
George B. Thomas 1944-1978
Henry Wallman 1946-1950
Witold Hurewicz 1947-1956
Chia-Chiao Lin 1947-1987
Warren Ambrose 1947-1985
Irvin S. Cohen 1948-1955
George W. Whitehead 1949-1985 (NAS Biography)
Kenkichi Iwasawa 1953-1967
John F. Nash, Jr. 1953-1960
Alberto P. Calderon 1955-1959
Nesmith C. Ankeny 1955-1992
Louis N. Howard 1955-1984
Joaquin B. Diaz 1956-1957
Stanislaw Ulam 1956-1957
Hartley Rogers, Jr. 1956-2009
Isadore M. Singer 1956-2010
Robert A. Clark 1956-1958
Claude E. Shannon 1957-1983
Daniel B. Ray 1957-1979
Marvin L. Minsky 1957-1962
Henry P. McKean 1958-1963
George E. Backus 1958-1960
Arthur P. Mattuck* 1958-2010
Franklin P. Peterson 1958-2000
Jurgen K. Moser 1958-1960
Richard D. Schafer 1959-1988
Kenneth M. Hoffman* 1959-1996
Daniel M. Kan 1959-1993
Gian-Carlo Rota 1959-1999 (NAS Biography)
Gerald B. Whitham 1959-1962
Irving B. Segal 1960-1989
Harvey P. Greenspan 1960-2002
David J. Benney* 1960-2010
James G. Glimm 1960-1968
Sigurdur Helgason 1960-2014
James R. Munkres 1960-2000
Bertram Kostant 1962-1994
Pierre E. Conner 1962-1963
Gilbert Strang 1962-2023
Alar Toomre 1963-2010
Michael Artin 1963-2010
Edward B. Curtis 1964-1970
Christopher Hunter 1964-1970
Takeshi Kotake 1964-1971
Joseph Pedlosky 1964-1968
Donald W. Anderson 1965-1971
Manuel Blum 1965-1969
Bernard Maskit 1965-1972
Daniel G. Quillen 1965-1988
Hung Cheng 1966-
Richard M. Dudley 1966-2015
Daniel J. Kleitman* 1966-2010
Victor Barcilon 1966-1969
Norman Bleistein 1966-1969
Roe W. Goodman 1966-1971
Victor W. Guillemin 1966-2022
Theodore W. Gamelin 1967-1968
Stephen Grossberg 1967-1975
Thomas J. Lardner 1967-1968
Steven A. Orszag 1967-1984
Frederic Y. Wan 1967-1974
Harold M. Stark 1968-1990
Colin J. Thompson 1968-1971
John W. Milnor 1968-1970
Willem V. R. Malkus 1969-1996
Seymour A. Papert 1969-1983
Philip J. Greenberg 1969-1974
Michael S. Paterson 1969-1973
Elliott H. Lieb 1968-1975
Gerald E. Sacks 1970-2006
Carl M. Bender 1970-1977
Steven Kleiman 1970-2014
Michael J. Fischer 1970-1973
James W. Mark 1970-1979
Dennis P. Sullivan 1970-1975
David G. Schaeffer 1970-1978
Eytan Barouch 1971-1975
Curtis Greene 1971-1976
Eugene M. Kleinberg 1971-1979
Michael D. Fried 1971-1972
Joel H. Spencer 1972-1975
Alan Needleman 1972-1975
John W. Morgan 1972-1974
Moshe Israeli 1972-1973
Richard P. Stanley 1973-2018
William P. Thurston 1973-1974
Norberto L. M. Kerzman 1973-1974
Herman M. Chernoff 1974-1985
Jeffery E. Mandula 1974-1978
Michael L. Fredman 1974-1976
Paul S. H. Wang 1974-1977
Edward Y. Miller 1975-1979
Yue-Ying Lau 1975-1981
Andrew C. C. Yao 1975-1976
Richard B. Melrose 1976-
Eugene B. Trubowitz 1977-1979
William H. DuMouchel 1977-1983
Leonard M. Adleman 1977-1981
Dorian Goldfeld 1977-1982
William T. M. Dunsmuir 1978-1980
Victor Kac 1978-
George Lusztig 1978-
Gary Miller 1978-1985
Adi Shamir 1978-1980
Michèle F. Vergne 1978-1989
David A. Vogan* 1978-2020
Ka Kit Tung 1979-1986
Frank Morgan 1979-1987
Sy D. Friedman 1979-2005
Rodolfo Ruben Rosales 1979-
Gregory R. Baker 1980-1982
Ira M. Gessel 1980-1984
Philip Marcus 1980-1984
Ravindran Kannan 1980-1985
Gunther Uhlmann 1980-1986
Daniel Z. Freedman 1980-2011
Michael Sipser* 1980-
Shelley L. Rasmussen 1981-1982
Manoj Prasad 1981-1983
Jeffrey Kahn 1981-1985
David S. Jerison 1981-
Andrew C. Fowler 1982-1985
David J. Anick 1982-1992
F. Thomson Leighton 1982-
William M. Goldman 1983-1986
Stephen M. Paneitz 1983-1984
Anders Björner 1984-1987
Sylvester J. Gates 1984-1985
Lloyd N. Trefethen 1984-1991
Baruch Awerbuch 1985-1992
C. Frederick Pearson 1985-1989
Antonio Sanchez 1985-1990
David A. Shmoys 1985-1990
Nicholas P. Warner 1985-1990
Haynes R. Miller 1986-2021
Daniel W. Stroock 1986-2010
Luis Casian 1986-1989
Zoltan Furedi 1986-1987
Mark D. Haiman 1986-1991
Ali Nadim 1986-1992
Stephane L. Zaleski 1986-1987
Robert D. MacPherson 1987-1994
Er-Cheng Tsai 1987-1988
Peter J. Huber 1988-1993
Dan S. Henningson 1988-1993
Ehud Hrushovski 1988-1997
Zhenfang Zhou 1988-1993
Alexander Beilinson 1989-1999
Michael Hopkins 1989-2005
Ezra Getzler 1989-1997
Steven H. Strogatz 1989-1994
Sheldon Chang 1990-1997
Mauricio Karchmer 1990-1996
James G. Propp 1990-1998
Mark Matthews 1991-1996
Michel Goemans* 1992-
Bonnie Berger 1992-
Scott Axelrod 1992-1998
Sergey Fomin 1993-2000
Alan Edelman 1993-
Yuri Manin 1994-1995
Fabian Waleffe 1994-1997
Andras Szenes 1995-2002
Michael P. Brenner 1995-2001
Alexander B. Goncharov 1995-1999
Gang Tian 1995-2006
Tomasz S. Mrowka* 1996-
Karen E. Smith 1996-2001
Daniel A. Spielman 1996-2005
Maurice H. P. M. van Putten 1996-2003
Lars Hesselholt 1997-2009
Lucia Caporaso 1997-2001
Sara Billey 1998-2003
John W. Bush 1998-
Pavel I. Etingof 1998-
Santosh S. Vempala 1998-2007
Aise Johan de Jong 1998-2006
Hubert L. Bray 1999-2005
David V. Ingerman 1999-2004
András Vasy 1999-2006
Martin Z. Bazant 2000-
Byunghan Kim 2000-2006
Igor Pak 2000-2008
Alexander Postnikov 2001-
Gigliola Staffilani 2002-
Denis S. Auroux 2002-2011
Dmitriy A. Panchenko 2002-2008
Jeff A. Viaclovsky 2002-2007
Peter W. Shor 2003-
Kiran S. Kedlaya 2003-2012
Jason M. Starr 2003-2007
Steven G. Johnson 2004-
Roman Bezrukavnikov 2005-
Tobias Holck Colding 2005-
Mark J. Behrens 2005-2014
Philip H. Bradley 2005-2006
Katrin Wehrheim 2005-2014
Benjamin Brubaker 2006-2013
Eric Lauga 2006-2008
James McKernan 2007-2014
Ju-Lee Kim 2007-
Paul A. Seidel 2007-
Jacob Lurie 2007-2009
Abhinav Kumar 2007-2014
Jonathan A. Kelner 2007-
Bjorn Poonen 2008-
Scott Sheffield 2008-
Lie Wang 2008-2015
Laurent Demanet 2009-
Clark Barwick 2010-2017
Alexei Borodin 2010-
Jacob Fox 2010-2015
Peter Ozsváth 2010-2012
Igor Rodnianski 2011-2014
Sug Woo Shin 2011-2015
Jared Speck 2011-2018
Gonçalo Tabuada 2011-2019
Alice Guionnet 2012-2016
Larry Guth 2012-
William Minicozzi 2012-
Aaron Naber 2012-2013
Jörn Dunkel 2013-
Ankur Moitra 2013-
Charles Smart 2013-2014
Emmy Murphy 2014-2017
Philippe Rigollet 2015-
Semyon Dyatlov 2015-
Vadim Gorin 2015-2020
Andrei Negut 2015-
Aaron Pixton 2015-2019
Davesh Maulik 2015-
Andrew Lawrie 2016-
Elchanan Mossel 2016-
Giulia Saccà 2017-2020
Yufei Zhao 2017-
Wei Zhang 2017-
Tristan Collins 2018-
Nike Sun 2018-
Chenyang Xu 2018-2021
Zhiwei Yun 2018-
Peter Hintz 2019-2022
Lisa Piccirillo 2020-
Dor Minzer 2020-
Jeremy Hahn 2021-
Lisa Sauermann 2021-
Daniel Alvarez-Gavela, 2022-
John Urschel, 2023-
Tristan Ozuch-Meersseman, 2023-