Harry Furstenberg | |
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| Born | September 29, 1935 |
| Nationality | Israel American |
| Education | Yeshiva University (BA, MS) Princeton University (PhD) |
| Known for | Proof of Szemerédi's theorem IP set Evenly spaced integer topology Furstenberg–Sárközy theorem Furstenberg boundary Furstenberg's proof |
| Awards | Abel Prize[1] Israel Prize Harvey Prize Wolf Prize |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Thesis | Prediction Theory (1958) |
| Doctoral advisor | Salomon Bochner |
| Doctoral students | Alexander Lubotzky Vitaly Bergelson Shahar Mozes Yuval Peres Tamar Ziegler |
Hillel "Harry" Furstenberg (Hebrew: הלל (הארי) פורסטנברג) (born September 29, 1935) is a German-born American-Israeli mathematician and professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and U.S. National Academy of Sciences and a laureate of the Abel Prize and the Wolf Prize in Mathematics. He is known for his application of probability theory and ergodic theory methods to other areas of mathematics, including number theory and Lie groups.
- ^ Bergelson, Vitaly; Glasner, Eli; Weiss, Benjamin (2024). "The work of Hillel Furstenberg and its impact on modern mathematics". The Abel Prize 2018-2022. pp. 399–431. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-33973-8_11. ISBN 978-3-031-33972-1.