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Science & Medicine

Hillel Furstenberg

Who

Hillel Furstenberg · Science & Medicine

What

Ergodic theory and its links to number theory (Abel Prize)

When

1935, Berlin, Germany

Where

Germany · United States · Israel

Biography

Hillel Furstenberg is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Ergodic theory and its links to number theory (Abel Prize)

How & why

Born to a Jewish family in Berlin, Furstenberg escaped Nazi Germany as a child and was raised in the United States before settling in Israel at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He forged deep, unexpected bridges between ergodic theory (the study of dynamical systems) and number theory and combinatorics, notably a dynamical proof of Szemerédi's theorem. He shared the 2020 Abel Prize with Gregory Margulis. He is Jewish.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

Contributions & Sources

Ergodic theory and its links to number theory (Abel Prize)

1935

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics