Professor Micha Sharir | |
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 Micha Sharir in 2004 | |
| Born | 8 June 1950 |
| Citizenship | Israel |
| Education | Tel Aviv University Courant Institute, New York University |
| Known for | Computational geometry Combinatorial geometry |
| Awards | Israel Defense Prize (1975) Doctorate, honorary, Utrecht University (1996) Association for Computing Machinery Fellow (1997) Feher Foundation Prize in Computer Science (1999) Landau Prize for Science and Research (2002) The EMET Prize for Art, Science and Culture (2007) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science Mathematics |
| Institutions | New York University Tel Aviv University |
| Thesis | Extreme Operators Between Banach Spaces (1976) |
| Doctoral advisor | Aldo Lazar |
| Doctoral students | |
Micha Sharir (Hebrew: מיכה שריר; born 8 June 1950 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist. He is a professor at Tel Aviv University, notable for his contributions to computational geometry and combinatorial geometry, having authored hundreds of papers.