David Kazhdan
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David Kazhdan | |
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| Born | 20 June 1946 |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
| Known for | Kazhdan–Lusztig polynomial Kazhdan–Margulis theorem Kazhdan's property (T) |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Hebrew University of Jerusalem Harvard University |
| Doctoral advisor | Alexandre Kirillov |
| Doctoral students | Misha Verbitsky Vladimir Voevodsky |
David Kazhdan (
Soviet and Israeli mathematician known for work in representation theory. Kazhdan is a 1990 MacArthur Fellow
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Biography
Kazhdan was born on 20 June 1946 in
Orthodox Jew
around that time.
In 2002, he immigrated to Israel and is now a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as well as a professor emeritus at Harvard.
On October 6, 2013, Kazhdan was critically injured in a car accident while riding a bicycle in Jerusalem.[2]
Kazhdan has four children. His son, Eli Kazhdan, was general director of Natan Sharansky's Yisrael BaAliyah political party (now merged with Likud).
Research
He is known for collaboration with
S. J. Patterson on the representations of metaplectic groups. Kazhdan's property (T)
is widely used in representation theory.
Kazhdan held a
United States National Academy of Sciences since 1990, of the Israel Academy of Sciences since 2006, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2008. In 2012, he was awarded the Israel Prize, the country's highest academic honor, for mathematics and computer science.[3] In 2020 he received the Shaw Prize in Mathematics.[4]
Selected publications
- Quantum fields and strings: a course for mathematicians. Vol. 1, 2. Material from the Special Year on Quantum Field Theory held at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, 1996–1997. Edited by ISBN 0-8218-1198-3, 81-06 (81T30 81Txx)
References
- ^ The MacArthur Fellows Program: the first decade, 1981-1991. 1993. p. 180.
- ^ "Israel Prize winner in serious condition following hit-and-run in Jerusalem". The Jerusalem Post | Jpost.com.
- ^ "Israel Prize for mathematics and computer science for 2012 to Prof. David Kazhdan". Archived from the original on 2013-09-21. Retrieved 2012-04-15.
- ^ Shaw Prize 2020
External links
- Official Harvard home page Archived 2015-07-04 at the Wayback Machine
- Official Hebrew University home page
- David Kazhdan at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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