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Marina Ratner

Who

Marina Ratner · Science & Medicine

What

Ergodic theory; Ratner's theorems on unipotent flows

When

1938, Moscow, Soviet Union — 2017, Berkeley, California, United States

Where

Soviet Union · Israel · United States

Biography

Marina Ratner is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Ergodic theory; Ratner's theorems on unipotent flows

How & why

Marina Ratner was a mathematician whose celebrated Ratner theorems on unipotent flows in ergodic theory became powerful tools with deep applications in number theory and Lie groups. Born into a Jewish family in Moscow, she emigrated to Israel and then to the United States, becoming a professor at Berkeley. She was Jewish.

Sources & external links

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

Contributions & Sources

Ergodic theory; Ratner's theorems on unipotent flows

1938

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics