Mathematics at Harvard University

30 faculty and 0 courses in Mathematics at Harvard University.

Faculty

• Shing-Tung Yau, Professor Emeritus h-index 81
  Differential geometry, partial differential equations, topology, and mathematical physics Faculty Professors Benjamin Peirce Fellows Lecturers Preceptors Senior Lecturers Senior Preceptors Graduate Students Post Doctoral Fellows Staff Visi
  Notable: “On the ricci curvature of a compact kähler manifold and the complex monge‐ampére equation, I” (1978) · 2,456 citations
• Eric Maskin, Adams University Professor of Mathematics and Economics h-index 69
  Notable: “The Folk Theorem in Repeated Games with Discounting or with Incomplete Information” (1986) · 2,411 citations
• David Mumford, Professor Emeritus h-index 58
  Notable: “Optimal approximations by piecewise smooth functions and associated variational problems” (1989) · 5,191 citations
• Horng-Tzer Yau, Merton Professor of Mathematics h-index 55
  Notable: “The Chandrasekhar theory of stellar collapse as the limit of quantum mechanics” (1987) · 409 citations
• Barry Mazur, Gerhard Gade University Professor h-index 48
  Number theory. - Automorphic forms. - Related issues in algebraic geometry. - Philosophy of Mathematics. See the list of current projects, the page pointing to older material, MathSci Reviews
  Notable: “Modular curves and the Eisenstein ideal” (1977) · 991 citations
• Benedict Gross, Professor Emeritus h-index 43
  Notable: “Heegner points and derivatives ofL-series” (1986) · 972 citations
• David Kazhdan, Professor Emeritus h-index 40
  Notable: “Representations of Coxeter groups and Hecke algebras” (1979) · 1,728 citations
• Curtis McMullen, Maria Moors Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences h-index 40
  Notable: “Billiards and Teichmüller curves on Hilbert modular surfaces” (2003) · 247 citations
• Joe Harris, Higgins Professor of Mathematics, Department Chair h-index 39
  Algebraic geometry
  Notable: “On the Kodaira dimension of the moduli space of curves” (1982) · 627 citations
• Yum-Tong Siu, William Elwood Byerly Professor of Mathematics h-index 38
  Notable: “Analyticity of sets associated to Lelong numbers and the extension of closed positive currents” (1974) · 436 citations
• Michael Hopkins, George Putnam Professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics h-index 37
  Notable: “Nilpotence and Stable Homotopy Theory I” (1988) · 422 citations
• Peter Kronheimer, William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics h-index 29
  Notable: “The construction of ALE spaces as hyper-Kähler quotients” (1989) · 576 citations
• Wilfried Schmid, Professor Emeritus h-index 29
  Notable: “Variation of hodge structure: The singularities of the period mapping” (1973) · 876 citations
• Mihnea Popa, Professor of Mathematics h-index 26
  Notable: “Asymptotic invariants of base loci” (2006) · 256 citations
• Lauren Williams, Dwight Parker Robinson Professor of Mathematics h-index 25
  Notable: “Faces of generalized permutohedra” (2008) · 326 citations
• Noam Elkies, Professor of Mathematics h-index 22
  Notable: “New upper bounds on sphere packings I” (2003) · 313 citations
• Mark Kisin, Perkins Professor of Mathematics h-index 20
  Galois representations, p-adic Hodge theory, Shimura varieties. You can find some of my papers here. --- --- EditorialboardsInventiones
  Notable: “Moduli of finite flat group schemes, and modularity” (2009) · 248 citations
• Denis Auroux, Herchel Smith Professor of Mathematics, Harvard College Professor h-index 20
  Notable: “Mirror symmetry and T-duality in the complement of an anticanonical divisor” (2007) · 304 citations
• Heisuke Hironaka, Professor Emeritus h-index 19
  Notable: “Resolution of Singularities of an Algebraic Variety Over a Field of Characteristic Zero: I” (1964) · 2,420 citations
• Oliver Knill, Lecturer, Undergraduate Concentration Support Specialist h-index 17
  Notable: “Singular continuous spectrum for palindromic Schrödinger operators” (1995) · 156 citations
• Laura DeMarco, Hollis Professor of Mathematicks and Natural Philosophy h-index 16
  Dynamical systems, arithmetic geometry, and complex analysis CV (short version), updated May 2026. Algebraic Dynamics Seminar at Harvard
  Notable: “Dynamics of rational maps: Lyapunov exponents, bifurcations, and capacity” (2003) · 111 citations
• Melanie Matchett Wood, William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics, Director of Graduate Studies h-index 13
  Notable: “The distribution of sandpile groups of random graphs” (2016) · 78 citations
• Sarah Koch, Lecturer h-index 10
  Notable: “Outcomes of endoscopic ultrasound‐guided biliary drainage: A systematic review and meta‐analysis” (2018) · 70 citations
• Philip Matchett Wood, Senior Lecturer, Research Scientist h-index 9
  I am interested in probability theory and combinatorics, including random matrices and their eigenvalue distributions, Markov chains, structural behavior in sumsets, and using computers to explore problems in probability theory and combina
  Notable: “On the singularity probability of discrete random matrices” (2009) · 144 citations
• Martin Nowak, Professor of Mathematics and Biology (On Leave) h-index 3
  Notable: “Evolutionary game dynamics in finite populations” (2004) · 431 citations
• Cliff Taubes, William Petschek Professor of Mathematics, Director of Undergraduate Studies
  Nonlinear partial differential equations and applications to topology, geometry, and mathematical physics Faculty Professors Benjamin Peirce Fellows Lecturers Preceptors Senior Lecturers Senior Preceptors Graduate Students Post Doctoral Fe
• Dan Freed, Shiing-Shen Chern Professor of Mathematics, Director of CMSA
• Hugh Woodin, Professor of Mathematics and Philosophy
  Set theory, determinacy, and strong axioms of infinity Faculty Professors Benjamin Peirce Fellows Lecturers Preceptors Senior Lecturers Senior Preceptors Graduate Students Post Doctoral Fellows Staff Visitors Professors Emeritus Harvard Un
• Robin Gottlieb, Professor of the Practice of Mathematics Emerita
• Wes Cain, Senior Lecturer, Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.