Don Zagier | |
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 Zagier at the British Mathematical Colloquium, London 2014 | |
| Born | 29 June 1951 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Bonn |
| Known for | Gross–Zagier theorem Herglotz–Zagier function Witten zeta function Jacobi form Period |
| Awards | Cole Prize (1987) Chauvenet Prize (2000)[1] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Max Planck Institute for Mathematics Collège de France University of Maryland ICTP |
| Doctoral advisor | Friedrich Hirzebruch |
| Doctoral students | |
Don Bernard Zagier (born 29 June 1951) is an American-German mathematician whose main area of work is number theory. He is currently one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany. He was a professor at the Collège de France in Paris from 2006 to 2014. Since October 2014, he is also a Distinguished Staff Associate at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP).[2]
- ^ Zagier, Don (1997). "Newman's Short Proof of the Prime Number Theorem". Amer. Math. Monthly. 104 (8): 705–708. doi:10.2307/2975232. JSTOR 2975232.
- ^ ICTP News Item