DH
Science & Medicine

David Harbater

Share
Who

David Harbater · Science & Medicine

What

Algebraic geometry; the inverse Galois problem

When

1952, New York City, United States

Where

United States

Biography

David Harbater is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Algebraic geometry; the inverse Galois problem

How & why

Harbater is a University of Pennsylvania mathematician who solved the inverse Galois problem over p-adic fields and, with Michel Raynaud, proved Abhyankar's conjecture, for which he shared the 1995 Cole Prize in Algebra. He was born in New York City to a Jewish family and attended Stuyvesant High School. He is a leading figure in arithmetic algebraic geometry.

Sources & external links

Verify and go deeper with these external references.

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

This page is published in seven languages from an English source. The translations are reviewed, but a mistake can still slip through. If you spot one on this profile — a wrong word, a lost date, a sentence that says something the English does not — please tell us.

Contributions & Sources

Algebraic geometry; the inverse Galois problem

1952

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics