Don Zagier
Don Zagier · Science & Medicine
Number theory; modular forms and the Gross-Zagier theorem
1951, Heidelberg, Germany
United States · Germany
Don Zagier is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Number theory; modular forms and the Gross-Zagier theorem
Zagier is an American-German number theorist and a director of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, celebrated for his work on modular forms and, with Benedict Gross, for the Gross–Zagier theorem relating heights of Heegner points to derivatives of L-functions — a landmark result bearing on the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture. A child prodigy, he earned his doctorate at twenty. His religious or ethnic background is not documented in standard biographical sources.
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Number theory; modular forms and the Gross-Zagier theorem
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
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