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Charles Louis Fefferman (born April 18, 1949) is a renowned American mathematician at Princeton University. April 18 is the 108th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (109th in leap years). ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... Leonhard Euler is considered by many to be one of the greatest mathematicians of all time A mathematician is the person whose primary area of study and research is the field of mathematics. ... Princeton University is a coeducational private university located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States of America. ...


A child prodigy, Fefferman entered college by twelve and had written his first scientific paper by the age of 15 in German. After receiving his bachelor's degrees in physics and mathematics at the age of 17 from the University of Maryland and a PhD in mathematics at 20 from Princeton University under Elias Stein, Fefferman received full professorship at the University of Chicago at the age of 22. This made him the youngest full professor ever appointed in the United States. At 24, he returned to Princeton to assume a full professorship there — a position he still holds. He won the Alan T. Waterman Award in 1976 and the Fields medal in 1978 for his work in mathematical analysis. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1979. A child prodigy is someone who is a master of one or more skills or arts at an early age. ... A bachelors degree (Artium Baccalaureus, A.B. or B.A.) is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts for three, four, or in some cases and countries, five or six years. ... Physics (Greek: (phúsis), nature and (phusiké), knowledge of nature) is the science concerned with the fundamental laws of the universe. ... Euclid, Greek mathematician, 3rd century BC, as imagined by by Raphael in this detail from The School of Athens. ... The University of Maryland, College Park (also known as UM, UMD, or UMCP) is a public university located in the city of College Park, in Prince Georges County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C., in the United States. ... PhD usually refers to the academic title Doctor of Philosophy PhD can also refer to the manga Phantasy Degree This is a disambiguation page — a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... Princeton University is a coeducational private university located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States of America. ... Elias M. Stein (born January 13, 1931) is a mathematician born in Belgium. ... The University of Chicago is an elite private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. ... The Alan T. Waterman Award is the United Statess highest honorary award for scientists under the age of 35. ... The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union, a meeting that takes place every four years. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... Analysis is the branch of mathematics most explicitly concerned with the notion of a limit, either the limit of a sequence or the limit of a function. ... President Harding and the National Academy of Sciences at the White House, Washington, DC, April 1921 The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine. ...


His early work included a study of the asymptotics of the Bergman kernel off the boundaries of pseudoconvex domains in mathbb C^n. His research to date includes a vast number of key results in diverse areas: mathematical physics, harmonic analysis, fluid dynamics, neural networks, geometry, mathematical finance and spectral analysis, amongst others. In mathematics and applications, particularly the analysis of algorithms, asymptotic analysis is a method of classifying limiting behaviour, by concentrating on some trend. ... In functional analysis (a branch of mathematics), a reproducing kernel Hilbert space is a function space in which pointwise evaluation is a continuous linear functional. ... In mathematics, more precisely in the theory of functions of several complex variables, a pseudoconvex set is a special type of open set in the n-dimensional complex space Cn. ...


Family

Charles Fefferman has two daughters, Nina and Lainie. Lainie Fefferman teaches math at Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn Heights, New York, is a composer, and holds a degree in music from Yale University. She has an interest in the Middle Eastern music[1]. Nina is a biologist who does research concerning the more theoretical aspects of the field.[2] “Yale” redirects here. ... This is a list of folk music traditions, with styles, dances, instruments and other related topics. ...


External links


The MacTutor history of mathematics archive is a website hosted by University of St Andrews in Scotland. ...

Fields Medalists

1936: AhlforsDouglas | 1950: SchwartzSelberg | 1954: Kodaira • Serre | 1958: RothThom | 1962: HörmanderMilnor | 1966: AtiyahCohenGrothendieckSmale | 1970: Baker • Hironaka • NovikovThompson | 1974: BombieriMumford | 1978: DeligneFeffermanMargulisQuillen | 1982: ConnesThurston • Yau | 1986: DonaldsonFaltingsFreedman | 1990: DrinfeldJonesMoriWitten | 1994: Zelmanov • Lions • Bourgain • Yoccoz | 1998: BorcherdsGowersKontsevichMcMullen | 2002: LafforgueVoevodsky | 2006: OkounkovPerelmanTaoWerner The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union, a meeting that takes place every four years. ... Lars Valerian Ahlfors (April 18, 1907 – October 11, 1996) was a Finnish mathematician, remembered for his work in the field of Riemann surfaces and his text on complex analysis. ... Jesse Douglas (July 3, 1897 - October 7, 1965) was an American mathematician. ... Laurent Schwartz (5 March 1915 – 4 July 2002 in Paris) was a French mathematician. ... Atle Selberg (born June 17, 1917) is a Norwegian mathematician known for his work in analytic number theory, and in the theory of automorphic forms, in particular bringing them into relation with spectral theory. ... Kunihiko Kodaira (小平 邦彦 Kodaira Kunihiko, 16 March 1915 – 26 July 1997) was a Japanese mathematician known for distinguished work in algebraic geometry and the theory of complex manifolds; and as the founder of the Japanese school of algebraic geometers. ... Jean-Pierre Serre (born September 15, 1926) is one of the leading mathematicians of the twentieth century, active in algebraic geometry, number theory and topology. ... Klaus Friedrich Roth (Roth is pronounced ROW-th) (29 October 1925) is a British mathematician known for work on diophantine approximation, the large sieve, and irregularities of distribution. ... René Thom (September 2, 1923 - October 25, 2002) was a French mathematician and founder of the catastrophe theory. ... Lars Hörmander Lars Valter Hörmander (born 24 January 1931) is a Swedish mathematician and one of the leading experts in partial differential equations. ... John Willard Milnor (b. ... Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, OM, FRS (born 22 April 1929) is a mathematician who was born in London. ... Paul Joseph Cohen (April 2, 1934 – March 23, 2007[1]) was an American mathematician. ... Alexander Grothendieck (Berlin, March 28, 1928) is one of the most important mathematicians of the 20th century. ... Stephen Smale Stephen Smale (born July 15, 1930) is an American mathematician from Flint, Michigan, and winner of the Fields Medal in 1966. ... Alan Baker (born on August 19, 1939) is an English mathematician. ... Heisuke Hironaka (広中 平祐 Hironaka Heisuke, born April 9, 1931) is a Japanese mathematician. ... Sergei Petrovich Novikov (also Serguei) (Russian: Сергей Петрович Новиков) (born 20 March 1938) is a Russian mathematician, noted for work in both algebraic topology and soliton theory. ... John Griggs Thompson (born 13 Oct 1932) is a mathematician noted for his work in the field of finite groups. ... Enrico Bombieri (born November 26, 1940) is a Italian mathematician, born in Milan. ... David Bryant Mumford (born 11 June 1937) is an American mathematician known for distinguished work in algebraic geometry, and then for research into vision and pattern theory. ... Pierre Deligne, March 2005 Pierre Deligne (born 3 October 1944) is a Belgian mathematician. ... Gregori Aleksandrovich Margulis (first name often given as Gregory, Grigori or Grigory) (born February 24, 1946) is a mathematician known for his far-reaching work on lattices in Lie groups, and the introduction of methods from ergodic theory into diophantine approximation. ... Daniel Quillen (born June 21, 1940) is an American mathematician, a Fields Medallist, and the current Waynflete Professor of Pure Mathematics at Magdalen College, Oxford. ... Alain Connes (born April 1, 1947) is a French mathematician, currently Professor at the College de France (Paris, France), IHES (Bures-sur-Yvette, France) and Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee). ... William Thurston William Paul Thurston (born October 30, 1946) is an American mathematician. ... Shing-Tung Yau (Chinese: ; pinyin: ; born April 4, 1949) is a prominent mathematician working in differential geometry, and involved in the theory of Calabi-Yau manifolds. ... Simon Kirwan Donaldson, born in Cambridge in 1957, is an English mathematician famous for his work on the topology of smooth (differentiable) four-dimensional manifolds. ... Gerd Faltings, June 2006 Gerd Faltings (born July 28, 1954 in Gelsenkirchen-Buer) is a German Lutheran mathematician known for his work in arithmetic algebraic geometry. ... Michael Hartley Freedman (born 21 April 1951 in Los Angeles, California, USA) is a mathematician at Microsoft Research. ... Vladimir Gershonovich Drinfeld (Владимир Гершонович Дринфельд) is a mathematician born February 14, 1954 in Ukraine. ... Vaughan Frederick Randal Jones (born 31 December 1952) is a New Zealand mathematician, known for his work on von Neumann algebras, knot polynomials and conformal field theory. ... Shigefumi Mori (森 重文 Mori Shigefumi, born February 23, 1951) is a Japanese mathematician, known for his work in algebraic geometry, particularly in relation to the classification of three-folds. ... Edward Witten (born August 26, 1951) is an American mathematical physicist, Fields Medalist, and professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. ... Efim Isaakovich Zelmanov (born September 7, 1955) is a mathematician, known for his work on combinatorial problems in nonassociative algebra and group theory, including his solution of the restricted Burnside problem. ... Pierre-Louis Lions (August 11, 1956 - ) is a French mathematician. ... Jean Bourgain (born Ostend, February 28, 1954), is a professor of mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study. ... Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (born May 29, 1957) is a French mathematician. ... Richard Ewen Borcherds (born November 29, 1959) is a mathematician specializing in group theory and Lie algebras. ... William Timothy Gowers (born November 20, 1963, Wiltshire, United Kingdom) is a British mathematician. ... Maxim Kontsevich (Russian: Максим Концевич) (born August 25, 1964) is a Russian mathematician. ... Curtis T McMullen (born 21 May 1958) is Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University. ... Laurent Lafforgue (born November 6, 1966, in Antony, France) is a French mathematician. ... Vladimir Voevodsky (Russian: Владимир Воеводский) (born June 4, 1966) is a Russian mathematician. ... Andrei Okounkov (Russian: Андрей Окуньков, Andrej Okunkov) (born 1969) is a mathematician who works on representation theory and its applications to algebraic geometry, mathematical physics, probability theory and special functions. ... Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman (Russian: ), born 13 June 1966 in Leningrad, USSR (now St. ... Terence Chi-Shen Tao ( 陶哲軒)(born 1975) is an Australian mathematician working primarily on harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, combinatorics, analytic number theory and representation theory. ... Wendelin Werner (born September 1968 in Germany) is a German-born French mathematician working in the area of self-avoiding random walks, Schramm-Loewner evolution, and related theories in probability theory and mathematical physics. ...

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Charles Louis Fefferman (born April 18, 1949) is a Professor of mathematics at Princeton University.
Fefferman was a child prodigy, receiving his PhD at Princeton at the age of 20 with advisor Elias Stein.
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