Enrico Bombieri

Enrico Bombieri
Born (1940-11-26) 26 November 1940 (age 83)
Milan, Italy
Alma materUniversity of Milan
Trinity College, Cambridge
Known forDeterminant method
Large sieve method in analytic number theory
Bombieri-Lang conjecture
Bombieri norm
Bombieri–Vinogradov theorem
"Heights" in Diophantine geometry
Siegel's lemma for bases (Bombieri–Vaaler)
Partial differential equations
Awards1966, Caccioppoli Prize[1]
1974, Fields Medal
1976, Feltrinelli Prize
1980, Balzan Prize
2006, Pythagoras Prize[2]
2008, Joseph L. Doob Prize[3][4]
2010, King Faisal International Prize
2020, Crafoord Prize
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsInstitute for Advanced Study
Doctoral advisorGiovanni Ricci
Doctoral studentsUmberto Zannier

Enrico Bombieri (born 26 November 1940) is an Italian mathematician, known for his work in analytic number theory, Diophantine geometry, complex analysis, and group theory.[5] Bombieri is currently professor emeritus in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.[6] Bombieri won the Fields Medal in 1974[5] for his work on the large sieve and its application to the distribution of prime numbers.[7]

  1. ^ "Site of Caccioppoli Prize". Archived from the original on 14 May 2019. Retrieved 31 December 2011.
  2. ^ Premio Pitagora 2006 (in Italian)
  3. ^ "Joseph L. Doob Prize".
  4. ^ "2008 Doob Prize" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 55 (4): 503–504. April 2008.
  5. ^ a b "Fields medals 1974". International Mathematical Union (IMU). Retrieved 8 September 2024.
  6. ^ "Enrico Bombieri". Institute for Advanced Study. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
  7. ^ "Enrico Bombieri PROFESSOR EMERITUS School of Mathematics Number Theory". www.ias.edu (Institute for Advanced Study). 9 December 2019. Retrieved 2 July 2021.