Harald Helfgott

Harald Andrés Helfgott
Helfgott at IPAM in May 2014
Born
Harald Andrés Helfgott

(1977-11-25) 25 November 1977 (age 46)
Lima, Peru
Alma materBrandeis University (BA)
Princeton University (PhD)
Known forProof of Goldbach's weak conjecture
AwardsLeverhulme Prize (2008)
Whitehead Prize (2010)
Adams Prize (2011)
Humboldt Professorship (2015)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsCNRS/Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu
University of Göttingen
Doctoral advisorHenryk Iwaniec[1][2]
Peter Sarnak[2]

Harald Andrés Helfgott (born 25 November 1977) is a Peruvian mathematician working in number theory. Helfgott is a researcher (directeur de recherche) at the CNRS at the Institut Mathématique de Jussieu, Paris.[3] He is best known for submitting a proof, now widely accepted but not yet fully published, of Goldbach's weak conjecture.[4]

  1. ^ Harald Helfgott. "Harald Andrés Helfgott – Vita" (PDF). Retrieved 18 March 2022.
  2. ^ a b Harald Helfgott at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ "Harald Andrés Helfgott".
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