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World Best Living  Mathematicians
Rankings 2023

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[1]. Terence Chi-Shen Tao
Australian-American Mathematician
(IQ: between 210--240)

Born 17 July 1975 Adelaide, South Australia
Tao is arguably the greatest living mathematician,
and has been called the greatest mathematician
of his generation.

[11]. Lisa Marie Piccirillo
American mathematician

Born 1990 or 1991. Raised in Greenwood Indiana
Works on geometry and low-dimensional topology.
Known for for solving a 50-year-old math Problem
"The Conway Knot problem"

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[2]. Charles Fefferman
American mathematician
(IQ: between 170--200)

Born April 18, 1949 Washington, DC, USA
Achieved a full professorship at the University of
Chicago at the age of 22, making him the youngest
full professor ever appointed in the United States.

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[3]. Andrew Wiles
English Mathematician
(IQ: between 160--180)

Born 11 April 1953, Cambridge, England
known for proving the Taniyama-Shimura
Conjecture for semistable elliptic curves,
thereby proving Fermat's Last Theorem.

[4]. Grigori Perelman
Russian mathematician

Born 13 June 1966 Leningrad, Soviet Union
Known for Proof of the soul conjecture Proof of the
Poincaré conjecture Riemannian geometry,
Geometric topology

[5]. Elon Lindenstrauss
Israeli Mathematician

Born Aug 01, 1970 Jerusalem,
Israel Claim to Fame: Ergodic theory
Winner of the 2010 Fields Medal. Since 2004,
he has been a professor at Princeton University.

[6]. Wendelin Werner
German-born French Mathematician

Born
September 23, 1968 Cologne,
Germany Claim to Fame: Random walks,
Schramm-Loewner evolution

[7]. Yitang Zhang
Chinese-born American mathematician

Born February 5, 1955 Pinghu, China.
Known for Establishing the existence of an
infinitely repeatable prime 2-tuple.
Doctoral advisor: Tzuong-Tsieng Moh

[8]. Edward Witten
American Mathematician
and theoretical physicist.

Born August 26, 1951
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Known for Seiberg–Witten invariants
M-theory; Seiberg-Witten map
Seiberg–Witten theory; etc...

[9]. James Maynard
British mathematician

Born June 10, 1987 Chelmsford, England
best known for his work on prime gaps.

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