Fields Medalists
- Jesse Douglas—(attended Columbia College from 1920–1924), winner of the Fields Medal in 1936
- Richard Hamilton—Davies Professor of mathematics, Columbia; awarded, but declined, the Fields Medal in 2006; awarded Shaw Prize (2011), Leroy P. Steele Prize (2009), Clay Research Award (2003), Veblen Prize (1996)
- Heisuke Hironaka—former Professor of Mathematics, Columbia; winner of the Fields Medal in 1970
- Shigefumi Mori—former Professor of Mathematics, Columbia; winner of the Fields Medal and the Cole Prize (both in 1990)
- Andrei Okounkov—Professor of Mathematics, Columbia; winner of the Fields Medal in 2006
- Stephen Smale—Professor of Mathematics, Columbia; winner of the Fields Medal in 1966 and the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 2006/7, one of only twelve Fields Medallists to win both prizes
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