Marina Ratner
Marina Evseevna Ratner (Template:Lang-ru; born October 30, 1938, Moscow, Russian SFSR, died Jully 7, 2017) is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley who works in ergodic theory.[1] Around 1990 she proved a group of major theorems concerning unipotent flows on homogeneous spaces, known as Ratner's theorems.[2] Ratner was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992,[3] awarded the Ostrowski Prize in 1993 and elected to the National Academy of Sciences the same year. In 1994 she was awarded the John J. Carty Award from the National Academy of Sciences.[4]
Biographical information
Marina Ratner was one of Yakov Sinai's students at the Moscow State University.[5]
References
- ^ Larry Riddle, Biography of Marina Ratner
- ^ Dave Witte Morris, Ratner's Theorems on Unipotent Flows, ISBN 0-226-53984-9
- ^ Membership list, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, retrieved 2015-06-13.
- ^ "John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science". National Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 29 December 2010. Retrieved 25 February 2011.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Marina Ratner at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
Categories:
- Women mathematicians
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- 1938 births
- Women scientists
- University of California, Berkeley faculty
- Living people
- National Academy of Sciences laureates
- Guggenheim Fellows
- Dynamical systems theorists