Marina Ratner
Marina Ratner · Science & Medicine
Ergodic theory; Ratner's theorems on unipotent flows
1938, Moscow, Soviet Union — 2017, Berkeley, California, United States
Soviet Union · Israel · United States
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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.
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Ergodic theory; Ratner's theorems on unipotent flows
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