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Henri Darmon

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Henri Darmon · Science & Medicine

What

Number theory; elliptic curves and Stark-Heegner points

When

1965, Paris, France

Where

France · Canada

Biography

Henri Darmon is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Number theory; elliptic curves and Stark-Heegner points

How & why

Henri Darmon is a French-Canadian number theorist at McGill University known for his work on the arithmetic of elliptic curves and modular forms, including Stark–Heegner points and approaches to Hilbert's twelfth problem, for which he received the 2017 AMS Cole Prize in Number Theory. He was born in Paris and moved to Canada as a child. Publicly available biographies do not document a Jewish background, though he appears on community rosters of Jewish mathematicians.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

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Contributions & Sources

Number theory; elliptic curves and Stark-Heegner points

1965

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics