Karen Uhlenbeck, the Glossary

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1. 85 relations: Abel Prize, Acta Mathematica, Agnes Scott College, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Mathematical Society, American Philosophical Society, Annals of Mathematics, Association for Women in Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts, Brandeis University, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, Calculus of variations, Cleveland, Communications in Mathematical Physics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Dan Freed, Differential equation, Differential geometry, Emmy Noether, Gauge theory, Gauge theory (mathematics), Geometric analysis, Geometry, George Uhlenbeck, Guggenheim Fellowship, Hans Munthe-Kaas, Harmonic map, Harvard University, Herbert Clemens, Institute for Advanced Study, Integrable system, International Congress of Mathematicians, Jim Al-Khalili, Journal of Differential Geometry, Journal of Geometry and Physics, Julia Child, Leroy P. Steele Prize, London Mathematical Society, MacArthur Fellows Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Master of Arts, Mathematical analysis, Mathematical physics, Mathematical Reviews, Mathematical Sciences Publishers, Minimal surface, Moduli space, Monotonic function, National Academy of Sciences, National Medal of Science, ... Expand index (35 more) »

2. Abel Prize laureates
3. Academics from Cleveland
4. American people of Estonian descent
5. Mathematicians from Ohio

Abel Prize

The Abel Prize (Abelprisen) is awarded annually by the King of Norway to one or more outstanding mathematicians.

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Acta Mathematica

Acta Mathematica is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal covering research in all fields of mathematics.

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Agnes Scott College

Agnes Scott College is a private women's liberal arts college in Decatur, Georgia.

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (The Academy) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States.

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American Mathematical Society

The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, advocacy and other programs.

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American Philosophical Society

The American Philosophical Society (APS) is an American scholarly organization and learned society founded in 1743 in Philadelphia that promotes knowledge in the humanities and natural sciences through research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and community outreach.

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Annals of Mathematics

The Annals of Mathematics is a mathematical journal published every two months by Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study.

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Association for Women in Mathematics

The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) is a professional society whose mission is to encourage women and girls to study and to have active careers in the mathematical sciences, and to promote equal opportunity for and the equal treatment of women and girls in the mathematical sciences. Karen Uhlenbeck and Association for Women in Mathematics are Fellows of the Association for Women in Mathematics.

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Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin baccalaureus artium, baccalaureus in artibus, or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines.

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Brandeis University

Brandeis University is a private research university in Waltham, Massachusetts.

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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

The Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society is a quarterly mathematical journal published by the American Mathematical Society.

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Calculus of variations

The calculus of variations (or variational calculus) is a field of mathematical analysis that uses variations, which are small changes in functions and functionals, to find maxima and minima of functionals: mappings from a set of functions to the real numbers.

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Cleveland

Cleveland, officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio.

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Communications in Mathematical Physics

Communications in Mathematical Physics is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Springer.

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Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (commonly known as Courant or CIMS) is the mathematics research school of New York University (NYU).

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Dan Freed

Daniel Stuart Freed (born 17 April 1959) is an American mathematician, specializing in global analysis and its applications to supersymmetry, string theory, and quantum field theory. Karen Uhlenbeck and Dan Freed are university of Texas at Austin faculty.

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Differential equation

In mathematics, a differential equation is an equation that relates one or more unknown functions and their derivatives.

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Differential geometry

Differential geometry is a mathematical discipline that studies the geometry of smooth shapes and smooth spaces, otherwise known as smooth manifolds.

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Emmy Noether

Amalie Emmy Noether (23 March 1882 – 14 April 1935) was a German mathematician who made many important contributions to abstract algebra.

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Gauge theory

In physics, a gauge theory is a type of field theory in which the Lagrangian, and hence the dynamics of the system itself, do not change under local transformations according to certain smooth families of operations (Lie groups).

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Gauge theory (mathematics)

In mathematics, and especially differential geometry and mathematical physics, gauge theory is the general study of connections on vector bundles, principal bundles, and fibre bundles.

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Geometric analysis

Geometric analysis is a mathematical discipline where tools from differential equations, especially elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs), are used to establish new results in differential geometry and differential topology.

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Geometry

Geometry is a branch of mathematics concerned with properties of space such as the distance, shape, size, and relative position of figures.

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George Uhlenbeck

George Eugene Uhlenbeck (December 6, 1900 – October 31, 1988) was a Dutch-American theoretical physicist. Karen Uhlenbeck and George Uhlenbeck are national Medal of Science laureates.

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Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim.

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Hans Munthe-Kaas

Hans Zanna Munthe-Kaas (born 28 March 1961) is a Norwegian mathematician working at UiT The Arctic University of Norway and the University of Bergen.

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Harmonic map

In the mathematical field of differential geometry, a smooth map between Riemannian manifolds is called harmonic if its coordinate representatives satisfy a certain nonlinear partial differential equation.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Herbert Clemens

Charles Herbert Clemens Jr. (born 15 August 1939) is an American mathematician specializing in complex algebraic geometry. Karen Uhlenbeck and Herbert Clemens are mathematicians from Ohio.

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Institute for Advanced Study

The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) is an independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry located in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Integrable system

In mathematics, integrability is a property of certain dynamical systems.

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International Congress of Mathematicians

The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics.

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Jim Al-Khalili

Jameel Sadik "Jim" Al-Khalili (جميل صادق الخليلي; born 20 September 1962) is an Iraqi-British theoretical physicist, author and broadcaster.

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Journal of Differential Geometry

The Journal of Differential Geometry is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of mathematics published by International Press on behalf of Lehigh University in 3 volumes of 3 issues each per year.

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Journal of Geometry and Physics

The Journal of Geometry and Physics is a scientific journal in mathematical physics.

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Julia Child

Julia Carolyn Child (née McWilliams; August 15, 1912 – August 13, 2004) was an American chef, author, and television personality.

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Leroy P. Steele Prize

The Leroy P. Steele Prizes are awarded every year by the American Mathematical Society, for distinguished research work and writing in the field of mathematics.

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London Mathematical Society

The London Mathematical Society (LMS) is one of the United Kingdom's learned societies for mathematics (the others being the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), the Edinburgh Mathematical Society and the Operational Research Society (ORS).

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MacArthur Fellows Program

The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and colloquially called the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to typically between 20 and 30 individuals working in any field who have shown "extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction" and are citizens or residents of the United States. Karen Uhlenbeck and MacArthur Fellows Program are MacArthur Fellows.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Master of Arts

A Master of Arts (Magister Artium or Artium Magister; abbreviated MA or AM) is the holder of a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries.

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Mathematical analysis

Analysis is the branch of mathematics dealing with continuous functions, limits, and related theories, such as differentiation, integration, measure, infinite sequences, series, and analytic functions.

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Mathematical physics

Mathematical physics refers to the development of mathematical methods for application to problems in physics.

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Mathematical Reviews

Mathematical Reviews is a journal published by the American Mathematical Society (AMS) that contains brief synopses, and in some cases evaluations, of many articles in mathematics, statistics, and theoretical computer science.

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Mathematical Sciences Publishers

Mathematical Sciences Publishers is a nonprofit publishing company run by and for mathematicians.

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Minimal surface

In mathematics, a minimal surface is a surface that locally minimizes its area.

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Moduli space

In mathematics, in particular algebraic geometry, a moduli space is a geometric space (usually a scheme or an algebraic stack) whose points represent algebro-geometric objects of some fixed kind, or isomorphism classes of such objects.

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Monotonic function

In mathematics, a monotonic function (or monotone function) is a function between ordered sets that preserves or reverses the given order.

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National Academy of Sciences

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization.

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National Medal of Science

The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and physics.

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National Science Foundation

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state situated within both the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States.

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New York University

New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City, United States.

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Noether Lecture

The Noether Lecture is a distinguished lecture series that honors women "who have made fundamental and sustained contributions to the mathematical sciences".

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Notices of the American Mathematical Society

Notices of the American Mathematical Society is the membership journal of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), published monthly except for the combined June/July issue.

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Ohio State University

The Ohio State University (Ohio State or OSU) is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States.

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Olke C. Uhlenbeck

Olke C. Uhlenbeck is a Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder and at Northwestern University.

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Partial differential equation

In mathematics, a partial differential equation (PDE) is an equation which computes a function between various partial derivatives of a multivariable function.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Quanta Magazine

Quanta Magazine is an editorially independent online publication of the Simons Foundation covering developments in physics, mathematics, biology and computer science.

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Richard Palais

Richard Sheldon Palais (born May 22, 1931) is an American mathematician working in differential geometry.

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Richard Schoen

Richard Melvin Schoen (born October 23, 1950) is an American mathematician known for his work in differential geometry and geometric analysis. Karen Uhlenbeck and Richard Schoen are MacArthur Fellows and mathematicians from Ohio.

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Science (journal)

Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.

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Shing-Tung Yau

Shing-Tung Yau (born April 4, 1949) is a Chinese-American mathematician. Karen Uhlenbeck and Shing-Tung Yau are MacArthur Fellows and national Medal of Science laureates.

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Sid W. Richardson Foundation

The Sid W. Richardson Foundation is a philanthropic organization founded in 1947 by Sid W. Richardson (1891–1959), a Texan who earned his fortune in the oil industry.

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Sigma Xi

Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society (ΣΞ) is a non-profit honor society for scientists and engineers.

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Simon Donaldson

Sir Simon Kirwan Donaldson (born 20 August 1957) is an English mathematician known for his work on the topology of smooth (differentiable) four-dimensional manifolds, Donaldson–Thomas theory, and his contributions to Kähler geometry.

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Singularity (mathematics)

In mathematics, a singularity is a point at which a given mathematical object is not defined, or a point where the mathematical object ceases to be well-behaved in some particular way, such as by lacking differentiability or analyticity.

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Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) is a professional society dedicated to applied mathematics, computational science, and data science through research, publications, and community.

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Tangent cone

In geometry, the tangent cone is a generalization of the notion of the tangent space to a manifold to the case of certain spaces with singularities.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Timeline of women in mathematics

This is a timeline of women in mathematics.

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Timeline of women in science

This is a timeline of women in science, spanning from ancient history up to the 21st century.

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Topological quantum field theory

In gauge theory and mathematical physics, a topological quantum field theory (or topological field theory or TQFT) is a quantum field theory which computes topological invariants.

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Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

The Transactions of the American Mathematical Society is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of mathematics published by the American Mathematical Society.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California.

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University of Chicago

The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.

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University of Illinois Chicago

The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is a public research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States.

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University of Michigan

The University of Michigan (U-M, UMich, or simply Michigan) is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas.

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Yang–Mills equations

In physics and mathematics, and especially differential geometry and gauge theory, the Yang–Mills equations are a system of partial differential equations for a connection on a vector bundle or principal bundle.

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Yang–Mills theory

Yang–Mills theory is a quantum field theory for nuclear binding devised by Chen Ning Yang and Robert Mills in 1953, as well as a generic term for the class of similar theories.

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Yang–Mills–Higgs equations

In mathematics, the Yang–Mills–Higgs equations are a set of non-linear partial differential equations for a Yang–Mills field, given by a connection, and a Higgs field, given by a section of a vector bundle (specifically, the adjoint bundle).

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3-manifold

In mathematics, a 3-manifold is a topological space that locally looks like a three-dimensional Euclidean space.

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See also

Abel Prize laureates

• Andrew Wiles
• Avi Wigderson
• Dennis Sullivan
• Endre Szemerédi
• Grigory Margulis
• Hillel Furstenberg
• Isadore Singer
• Jacques Tits
• Jean-Pierre Serre
• John Forbes Nash Jr.
• John G. Thompson
• John Milnor
• John Tate (mathematician)
• Karen Uhlenbeck
• László Lovász
• Lennart Carleson
• Louis Nirenberg
• Luis Caffarelli
• Michael Atiyah
• Michel Talagrand
• Mikhael Gromov (mathematician)
• Peter Lax
• Pierre Deligne
• Robert Langlands
• S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan
• Yakov Sinai
• Yves Meyer

Academics from Cleveland

• Albert Bushnell Hart
• Arthur Naparstek
• Arthur T. Benjamin
• Baruch A. Levine
• Boris Kolker
• David Rubin (academic administrator)
• Debra Kaufman
• Edward Klima
• Ellsworth Kalas
• Eric Katz
• Frank H. Wu
• Gary John Previts
• Howard Kahane
• James Troha
• Jean M. Bartunek
• Karen Uhlenbeck
• Kenneth S. Lynn
• Larry D. Singell
• Lowell C. Smith
• Mary Schaps
• Oreste Pucciani
• Oscar James Campbell Jr.
• Paul Schupp
• Philip A. Stadter
• Priscilla Tyler (educator)
• Richard J. Blackwell
• Richard S. Varga
• Robert J. Goldston
• Ronald H. Nash
• Royal Skousen
• Wayne G. Hammond
• Werner J. Dannhauser
• William Ernest Hocking

American people of Estonian descent

• Alec Nevala-Lee
• Andres Ilves
• Ardo Hansson
• Chris Jogis
• Chuck Ehin
• Dave Taht
• Dennis Nurkse
• Edward Masso
• Erika Eleniak
• Estonian Americans
• Greg Ginn
• Ingrid Neel
• Jaan Puhvel
• John Roosma
• Kalev Leetaru
• Kalev Sepp
• Karen Uhlenbeck
• Karolyn Nelke
• Katie Vesterstein
• Kiino Villand
• Linda Infante Lyons
• Lisa Kivirist
• List of Estonian Americans
• Mark Kostabi
• Mena Suvari
• Miliza Korjus
• Nicole Aunapu Mann
• Paul Kostabi
• Sharon L. Gleason
• Steve Jurvetson
• Sven Salumaa
• T. Peter Park
• Toomas Hendrik Ilves
• Warren Cummings Smith

Mathematicians from Ohio

• Agnes Meyer Driscoll
• Andrew Ogg
• Clarence Lemuel Elisha Moore
• Dan Archdeacon
• Daniel Biss
• Donald Bogue
• E. H. Moore
• Elwyn Berlekamp
• Eric Katz
• F. Thomas Farrell
• Geoffrey K. Martin
• Georgia Benkart
• Herbert Clemens
• James A. Garfield
• James Eells
• John Rhodes (mathematician)
• Joseph L. Doob
• Karen Uhlenbeck
• M. Henrietta Reilly
• Norman Steenrod
• Olive Hazlett
• Paul Garabedian
• Richard S. Hamilton
• Richard Schoen
• Robert Geroch
• Robert MacPherson (mathematician)
• Robert Williams (geometer)
• Theophil Henry Hildebrandt
• William Boone (mathematician)

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Uhlenbeck

Also known as K. Uhlenbeck, K.K. Uhlenbeck, Karen K. Uhlenbeck, Karen Keskküla, Karen Keskulla, Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck.

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