Zagier at the British Mathematical Colloquium, London 2014
Born
(1951-06-29) 29 June 1951 (age 72)
Heidelberg, West Germany
Nationality
American
Alma mater
University of Bonn
Known for
Gross–Zagier theorem Herglotz–Zagier function Witten zeta function Jacobi form Period
Awards
Cole Prize (1987) Chauvenet Prize (2000)[1]
Scientific career
Fields
Mathematics
Institutions
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics Collège de France University of Maryland ICTP
Doctoral advisor
Friedrich Hirzebruch
Doctoral students
Svetlana Katok
Maxim Kontsevich
Joseph Oesterlé
Maryna Viazovska
Don Bernard Zagier (born 29 June 1951) is an American-German mathematician whose main area of work is number theory. He is currently one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany. He was a professor at the Collège de France in Paris from 2006 to 2014. Since October 2014, he is also a Distinguished Staff Associate at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP).[2]
^Zagier, Don (1997). "Newman's Short Proof of the Prime Number Theorem". Amer. Math. Monthly. 104 (8): 705–708. doi:10.2307/2975232. JSTOR 2975232.
Don Bernard Zagier (born 29 June 1951) is an American-German mathematician whose main area of work is number theory. He is currently one of the directors...
each group have the same shadow (up to multiplication by a constant). DonZagier defines a mock theta function as a rational power of q = e2πi𝜏 times...
1017/CBO9780511756375, ISBN 978-0-521-83659-3, MR 2083206 Gross, Benedict H.; Zagier, Don B. (1986), "Heegner points and derivatives of L-series", Inventiones...
Karlin, David Kazhdan, Louis Nirenberg, Terence Tao, Wendelin Werner, and DonZagier. Anderson, J. M. (1988). "Obituary: Elisha Netanyahu". Bulletin of the...
theory, particularly the Gross–Zagier theorem on L-functions of elliptic curves, which he researched with DonZagier. Gross graduated from The Pingry...
Special Cycles, concerns analytic number theory and was supervised by DonZagier and Werner Müller. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Berlin Mathematical...
the corresponding Lie group. These zeta functions were introduced by DonZagier who named them after Edward Witten's study of their special values (among...
David Mumford of Brown University Division of Applied Mathematics 2002: DonZagier of University of Utrecht / Collège de France 2001: Gerhard Frey of University...
19: 117–124, JFM 46.0605.01 Jean-Pierre Serre, A course in arithmetic. DonZagier, Elliptic Modular Forms and Their Applications, in The 1-2-3 of Modular...
Borcherds. In May 2019, Ono published a joint paper (co-authored with DonZagier and two former students) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of...
work he provided a detailed theory of Hilbert modular surfaces, with DonZagier. He even found connections between the Dedekind sum in number theory and...
Yuri Manin were, and Günter Harder, Werner Ballmann, Gerd Faltings and DonZagier are, acting as emeriti. The Max Planck Institute for Mathematics offers...
solitons in string theory". Dabholkar collaborated with Sameer Murthy and DonZagier to discover a connection between the quantum entropy of black holes and...
Koike-Norton-Zagier infinite product identity) was discovered in the 1980s. Several mathematicians, including Masao Koike, Simon P. Norton, and DonZagier, independently...
him one of only 6 people (the 5 others being Arthur Rubin, Noam Elkies, DonZagier, David Ash and John Tillinghast) in the history of the competition to...
Danielsson Hill (professor in Lund, Sweden) in 1828 (Maximon 2003, § 10). DonZagier (1989) has remarked that the dilogarithm is the only mathematical function...
MR 0167642. LCCN 65-12253. Henri Cohen, Fernando Rodriguez Villegas, and DonZagier, "Convergence Acceleration of Alternating Series", Experimental Mathematics...
IMU silver plaque in recognition of his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. DonZagier referred to the plaque as a "quantized Fields Medal". Accounts of this...
"Gauss's class number problem for imaginary quadratic fields" Benedict Gross DonZagier for their paper "Heegner points and derivatives of L-Series" 1992 Karl...
even Markov numbers are 2 more than multiples of 32. In his 1982 paper, DonZagier conjectured that the nth Markov number is asymptotically given by m n...
{Q} ({\sqrt {\tau }}).} This formula is due to Yangbo Ye, inspired by DonZagier and extending the work of Hervé Jacquet and Ye on the relative trace formula...
mathematics Pedro Zadunaisky (1917–2009), mathematician and astronomer DonZagier (born 1951), number theory; Cole Prize (1987) Elijah Zahalon (18th century)...
in Werner Ballmann; Christian Blohmann; Gerd Faltings; Peter Teichner; DonZagier (eds.), Arbeitstagung Bonn 2013: In Memory of Friedrich Hirzebruch, Progress...
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