David Harbater

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David Harbater (born December 19, 1952) is an American mathematician at the University of Pennsylvania, well known for his work in Galois theory, algebraic geometry and arithmetic geometry.

Early life and education

Harbater was born in New York City and attended Stuyvesant High School, where he was on the math team. After graduating in 1970, he entered Harvard University.

After graduating

He solved the inverse Galois problem over ${\displaystyle \mathbb {Q} _{p}(t)}$, and made many other significant contributions to the field of Galois theory.

Harbater's recent work on patching over fields, together with Julia Hartmann and Daniel Krashen, has had applications in such varied fields as

Awards and honors

In 1995, Harbater was awarded the

In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.^[1]

Selected publications

• Harbater, D. (1994). "Abhyankar's Conjecture on Galois Groups Over Curves". Invent. Math. 117 (1): 1–25.
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External links

• Recollections of Arthur Rothstein, (Math Teammate of Harbater)
• Cole Prize citation for David Harbater
• David Harbater at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Harbater's home page at Penn

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