Henryk Iwaniec

Henryk Iwaniec
Born (1947-10-09) October 9, 1947 (age 77)
CitizenshipPoland, United States
Alma materUniversity of Warsaw
Known foranalytic number theory
Friedlander–Iwaniec theorem
automorphic forms
Sieve theory
AwardsOstrowski Prize (2001)
Cole Prize (2002)
Steele Prize (2011)
Shaw Prize (2015)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematician
InstitutionsPolish Academy of Sciences
Institute for Advanced Study
Rutgers University
University of Michigan
Doctoral advisorAndrzej Schinzel
Doctoral studentsÉtienne Fouvry
Harald Helfgott

Henryk Iwaniec (born October 9, 1947) is a Polish-American mathematician, and since 1987 a professor at Rutgers University. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Polish Academy of Sciences. He has made important contributions to analytic and algebraic number theory as well as harmonic analysis. He is the recipient of Cole Prize (2002), Steele Prize (2011), and Shaw Prize (2015).