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
- George P. Wadsworth 1938-1974
- Norman Levinson* 1939-1975 (NAS Biography)
- William T. Martin* 1939-1976
- Francis B. Hildebrand 1940-1984
- Alfred H. Clifford 1941-1947
- Eric Reissner 1942-1969
- Raphael Salem 1943-1957
- George B. Thomas 1944-1978
- Henry Wallman 1946-1950
- Witold Hurewicz 1947-1956
- Warren Ambrose 1947-1985
- Chia-Chiao Lin 1947-1987
- Irvin S. Cohen 1948-1955
- George W. Whitehead 1949-1985 (NAS Biography)
- John F. Nash, Jr. 1953-1960
- Kenkichi Iwasawa 1953-1967
- Alberto P. Calderon 1955-1959
- Louis N. Howard 1955-1984
- Nesmith C. Ankeny 1955-1992
- Joaquin B. Diaz 1956-1957
- Stanislaw Ulam 1956-1957
- Robert A. Clark 1956-1958
- Hartley Rogers, Jr. 1956-2009
- Isadore M. Singer 1956-2010
- Daniel B. Ray 1957-1979
- Marvin L. Minsky 1957-1962
- Claude E. Shannon 1957-1983
- George E. Backus 1958-1960
- Jurgen K. Moser 1958-1960
- Henry P. McKean 1958-1963
- Franklin P. Peterson 1958-2000
- Arthur P. Mattuck* 1958-2010
- Gerald B. Whitham 1959-1962
- Richard D. Schafer 1959-1988
- Daniel M. Kan 1959-1993
- Kenneth M. Hoffman* 1959-1996
- Gian-Carlo Rota 1959-1999 (NAS Biography)
- James G. Glimm 1960-1968
- Irving B. Segal 1960-1989
- Harvey P. Greenspan 1960-2002
- James R. Munkres 1960-2000
- David J. Benney* 1960-2010
- Sigurdur Helgason 1960-2014
- Pierre E. Conner 1962-1963
- Bertram Kostant 1962-1994
- Gilbert Strang 1962-2023
- Alar Toomre 1963-2010
- Michael Artin 1963-2010
- Joseph Pedlosky 1964-1968
- Edward B. Curtis 1964-1970
- Christopher Hunter 1964-1970
- Takeshi Kotake 1964-1971
- Manuel Blum 1965-1969
- Donald W. Anderson 1965-1971
- Bernard Maskit 1965-1972
- Daniel G. Quillen 1965-1988
- Richard M. Dudley 1966-2015
- Victor Barcilon 1966-1969
- Norman Bleistein 1966-1969
- Roe W. Goodman 1966-1971
- Daniel J. Kleitman* 1966-2010
- Victor W. Guillemin 1966-2022
- Hung Cheng 1966-2024
- Theodore W. Gamelin 1967-1968
- Thomas J. Lardner 1967-1968
- Frederic Y. Wan 1967-1974
- Stephen Grossberg 1967-1975
- Steven A. Orszag 1967-1984
- John W. Milnor 1968-1970
- Colin J. Thompson 1968-1971
- Elliott H. Lieb 1968-1975
- Harold M. Stark 1968-1990
- Michael S. Paterson 1969-1973
- Philip J. Greenberg 1969-1974
- Seymour A. Papert 1969-1983
- Willem V. R. Malkus 1969-1996
- Steven Kleiman 1969-2014
- Michael J. Fischer 1970-1973
- Dennis P. Sullivan 1970-1975
- Carl M. Bender 1970-1977
- David G. Schaeffer 1970-1978
- James W. Mark 1970-1979
- Gerald E. Sacks 1970-2006
- Michael D. Fried 1971-1972
- Eytan Barouch 1971-1975
- Curtis Greene 1971-1976
- Eugene M. Kleinberg 1971-1979
- Moshe Israeli 1972-1973
- John W. Morgan 1972-1974
- Joel H. Spencer 1972-1975
- Alan Needleman 1972-1975
- William P. Thurston 1973-1974
- Norberto L. M. Kerzman 1973-1974
- Richard P. Stanley 1973-2018
- Michael L. Fredman 1974-1976
- Paul S. H. Wang 1974-1977
- Jeffery E. Mandula 1974-1978
- Herman M. Chernoff 1974-1985
- Andrew C. C. Yao 1975-1976
- Edward Y. Miller 1975-1979
- Yue-Ying Lau 1975-1981
- Richard B. Melrose 1976-2024
- Eugene B. Trubowitz 1977-1979
- Leonard M. Adleman 1977-1981
- Dorian Goldfeld 1977-1982
- William H. DuMouchel 1977-1983
- William T. M. Dunsmuir 1978-1980
- Adi Shamir 1978-1980
- Gary Miller 1978-1985
- Michèle F. Vergne 1978-1989
- David A. Vogan* 1978-2020
- Victor Kac 1978-
- George Lusztig 1978-
- Ka Kit Tung 1979-1986
- Frank Morgan 1979-1987
- Sy D. Friedman 1979-2005
- Rodolfo Ruben Rosales 1979-2024
- 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-
- Stephen M. Paneitz 1983-1984
- William M. Goldman 1983-1986
- Sylvester J. Gates 1984-1985
- Anders Björner 1984-1987
- Lloyd N. Trefethen 1984-1991
- C. Frederick Pearson 1985-1989
- Antonio Sanchez 1985-1990
- David A. Shmoys 1985-1990
- Nicholas P. Warner 1985-1990
- Baruch Awerbuch 1985-1992
- Haynes R. Miller 1986-2021
- Zoltan Furedi 1986-1987
- Stephane L. Zaleski 1986-1987
- Luis Casian 1986-1989
- Mark D. Haiman 1986-1991
- Ali Nadim 1986-1992
- Daniel W. Stroock 1986-2010
- Er-Cheng Tsai 1987-1988
- Robert D. MacPherson 1987-1994
- Dan S. Henningson 1988-1993
- Peter J. Huber 1988-1993
- Zhenfang Zhou 1988-1993
- Ehud Hrushovski 1988-1997
- Steven H. Strogatz 1989-1994
- Ezra Getzler 1989-1997
- Alexander Beilinson 1989-1999
- Michael Hopkins 1989-2005
- Mauricio Karchmer 1990-1996
- Sheldon Chang 1990-1997
- James G. Propp 1990-1998
- Mark Matthews 1991-1996
- Scott Axelrod 1992-1998
- Sergey Fomin 1993-2000
- Michel Goemans* 1992-
- Bonnie Berger 1992-
- Alan Edelman 1993-
- Yuri Manin 1994-1995
- Fabian Waleffe 1994-1997
- Alexander B. Goncharov 1995-1999
- Michael P. Brenner 1995-2001
- Andras Szenes 1995-2002
- Gang Tian 1995-2006
- Karen E. Smith 1996-2001
- Maurice H. P. M. van Putten 1996-2003
- Daniel A. Spielman 1996-2005
- Tomasz S. Mrowka* 1996-
- Lucia Caporaso 1997-2001
- Lars Hesselholt 1997-2009
- Sara Billey 1998-2003
- Aise Johan de Jong 1998-2006
- Santosh S. Vempala 1998-2007
- John W. Bush 1998-
- Pavel I. Etingof 1998-
- David V. Ingerman 1999-2004
- Hubert L. Bray 1999-2005
- András Vasy 1999-2006
- Byunghan Kim 2000-2006
- Igor Pak 2000-2008
- Martin Z. Bazant 2000-
- Alexander Postnikov 2001-
- Jeff A. Viaclovsky 2002-2007
- Dmitriy A. Panchenko 2002-2008
- Denis S. Auroux 2002-2011
- Gigliola Staffilani 2002-
- Jason M. Starr 2003-2007
- Kiran S. Kedlaya 2003-2012
- Peter W. Shor 2003-
- Steven G. Johnson 2004-
- Philip H. Bradley 2005-2006
- Mark J. Behrens 2005-2014
- Katrin Wehrheim 2005-2014
- Roman Bezrukavnikov 2005-
- Tobias Holck Colding 2005-
- Eric Lauga 2006-2008
- Benjamin Brubaker 2006-2013
- Jacob Lurie 2007-2009
- Abhinav Kumar 2007-2014
- James McKernan 2007-2014
- Jonathan A. Kelner 2007-
- Ju-Lee Kim 2007-
- Paul A. Seidel 2007-
- Lie Wang 2008-2015
- Bjorn Poonen 2008-
- Scott Sheffield 2008-
- Laurent Demanet 2009-
- Peter Ozsváth 2010-2012
- Jacob Fox 2010-2015
- Clark Barwick 2010-2017
- Alexei Borodin 2010-
- Igor Rodnianski 2011-2014
- Sug Woo Shin 2011-2015
- Jared Speck 2011-2018
- Gonçalo Tabuada 2011-2019
- Aaron Naber 2012-2013
- Alice Guionnet 2012-2016
- Larry Guth 2012-
- William Minicozzi 2012-
- Charles Smart 2013-2014
- Jörn Dunkel 2013-
- Ankur Moitra 2013-
- Emmy Murphy 2014-2017
- Aaron Pixton 2015-2019
- Vadim Gorin 2015-2020
- Philippe Rigollet 2015-
- Semyon Dyatlov 2015-
- Andrei Negut 2015-2024
- Davesh Maulik 2015-
- Andrew Lawrie 2016-
- Elchanan Mossel 2016-
- Giulia SaccĂ 2017-2020
- Yufei Zhao 2017-
- Wei Zhang 2017-
- Chenyang Xu 2018-2021
- Tristan Collins 2018-
- Nike Sun 2018-
- Zhiwei Yun 2018-
- Peter Hintz 2019-2022
- Lisa Piccirillo 2020-2024
- Dor Minzer 2020-
- Lisa Sauermann 2021-2024
- Jeremy Hahn 2021-
- Daniel Alvarez-Gavela, 2022-2024
- Tristan Ozuch-Meersseman, 2023-
- John Urschel, 2023-
- Shaoyun Bai, 2024-
- Jacopo Borga, 2024-
- Christoph Kehle, 2024-
- Aleksandr Logunov, 2024-