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 the first general results on the Weil conjectures. May 27 is the 147th day (148th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 218 days remaining. ... 1923 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... May 9 is the 129th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (130th in leap years). ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... P-adic analysis (p-adic analysis) is a branch of mathematics that deals with functions of p-adic numbers. ... In number theory, a local zeta-function is a generating function Z(t) for the number of solutions of a set of equations defined over a finite field F, in extension fields Fk of F. The analogy with the Riemann zeta function comes via consideration of the logarithmic derivative . ... In mathematics, the Weil conjectures, which had become theorems by 1975, were some highly-influential proposals from the late 1940s by Andre Weil on the generating functions (known as local zeta-functions) derived from counting the number of points on algebraic varieties over finite fields. ...