Ronald Raphael Coifman is the Sterling professor of Mathematics at

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. Coifman earned a doctorate from the

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in 1965, supervised by Jovan Karamata. Coifman is a member of the

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, the

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, and the National Academy of Sciences. He is a recipient of the 1996

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Sustained Excellence Award, the 1996 Connecticut Science Medal, the 1999 Pioneer Award of the International Society for Industrial and Applied Science, and the 1999

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. In 2013, he co-founded ThetaRay, a

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and

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company. In 2018, he received the

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for Mathematics.

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Scientific Data Has Become So Complex, We Have to Invent New Math to Deal With It

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Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Living people 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians Israeli Jews Israeli mathematicians Yale University faculty National Medal of Science laureates 1941 births Israeli emigrants to the United States {{Israel-scientist-stub