Elon Lindenstrauss
Elon Lindenstrauss | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 1, 1970 |
| Nationality |  Israel |
| Alma mater | Hebrew University |
| Awards | Fields Medal (2010) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Princeton University |
| Doctoral advisor | Benjamin Weiss |
Elon Lindenstrauss (Hebrew: אילון לינדנשטראוס, born August 1, 1970) is an Israeli mathematician, winner of the 2010 Fields Medal.[1]
Lindenstrauss enlisted to the Talpiot program, he studied at the Hebrew University , where he earn his BA in Mathematics and Physics and his Master's degree in Mathematics, in 1995. while serving in the IDF he earned the Israel Defense Prize. In 1999 he finished his Ph.D. (his thesis: "Entropy properties of dynamical systems" under the guidance of Prof. Benjamin Weiss). He was a member at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University then a Szego Assistant Prof. at Stanford University. From 2003 to 2005 he was a Long Term Prize Fellow at at the Clay Mathematics Institute. Since 2004 he is professor at Princeton University. In 2009 he was appointed to Professor at the Mathematics Institute at the Hebrew University.
Lindenstrauss is the son of the renowned mathematician Joram Lindenstrauss, the namesake of the Johnson–Lindenstrauss lemma.
Research
Lindenstrauss works in the area of dynamics, particularly in the area of ergodic theory and its applications in number theory, with Anatole Katok and Manfred Einsiedler he made progess on proving the Littlewood conjecture.
In a series of two papers papers (one co-authored with Jean Bourgain) he proved Peter Sarnak's Arithemetic Quantum Unique Ergodicity conjecture.
Recently with Einsiedler, Michelle and Venkatesh he studied distributions of torus periodic orbits in some arithmetic spaces, generalizing theorems by Minkowski and Linnik.
Among his co-authors are Jean Bourgain, Manfred Einsiedler, Akshay Venkatesh, Barak Weiss and Shahar Mozes.
Awards
In 1988 he represented Israel in the International Mathematical Olympiad and won a bronze medal. In 2003 he was awarded the Salem Prize with Kannan Soundararajan, in 2004 he was awarded the European Mathematical Society Prize.
In 2008 Lindenstrauss received the Michael Bruno Memorial Award and in 2009 the Erdos Prize. In 2009 he received the Fermat Prize. In 2010 he received the Fields medal for analytic work with applications to number theory.
References
- ^ "Israeli wins world's most prestigious math prize". ynet. 19 August 2010. Retrieved 19 August 2010.
