Bernard Dwork | |
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| Born | May 27, 1923 New York City, US |
| Died | May 9, 1998 (aged 74) |
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
| Known for | Dwork conjecture Dwork family Dwork's lemma Dwork's method |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (1964) Cole Prize (1962) ICM Speaker (1962) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Johns Hopkins University Princeton University |
| Doctoral advisor | Emil Artin John Tate |
| Doctoral students | Stefan Burr Nick Katz |
Bernard Morris Dwork (May 27, 1923 – May 9, 1998) was an American mathematician, known for his application of p-adic analysis to local zeta functions, and in particular for a proof of the first part of the Weil conjectures: the rationality of the zeta function of a variety over a finite field. The general theme of Dwork's research was p-adic cohomology and p-adic differential equations. He published two papers under the pseudonym Maurizio Boyarsky.