Bernard Dwork
| Bernard Dwork | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 27, 1923 The Bronx |
| Died |
May 9, 1998 (aged 74) New Brunswick, NJ |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Princeton University |
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
| Doctoral advisor | Emil Artin |
| Doctoral students |
Stefan Burr Nick Katz |
| Notable awards | Cole Prize (1962) |
Bernard Morris Dwork (May 27, 1923 – May 9, 1998) was an American mathematician, known for his application of p-adic analysis to local zeta functions, and in particular for a proof of the first part of the Weil conjectures: the rationality of the zeta-function of a variety over a finite field. For this proof he received, together with Kenkichi Iwasawa, the Cole Prize in 1962.[1] The general theme of Dwork's research was p-adic cohomology and p-adic differential equations. He published two papers under the pseudonym Maurizio Boyarsky.
Dwork received his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1954 under direction of Emil Artin; Nick Katz was one of his students.[2] He is the father of historian Deborah Dwork. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1964, and his daughter, historian Deborah Dwork, received one in 1993. They are one of only three father-daughter set to ever have done so.[3] Another daughter, computer scientist Cynthia Dwork, received the Dijkstra Prize.
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References
- ↑ Memorial article – by Nick Katz and John Tate.
- ↑ Bernard Dwork at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- ↑ Shearin, Megan (April 8, 2011), W&M professor wins prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship, The College of William & Mary.
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