Bernard Dwork
American mathematician
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::summary American mathematician ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Bernard Dwork |
| image | |
| birth_date | |
| birth_place | New York City, US |
| death_date | |
| death_place | New Brunswick, New Jersey, US |
| fields | Mathematics |
| workplaces | Johns Hopkins University |
| Princeton University | |
| alma_mater | Columbia University |
| doctoral_advisor | Emil Artin |
| John Tate | |
| doctoral_students | Stefan Burr |
| Nick Katz | |
| known_for | Dwork conjecture |
| Dwork family | |
| Dwork's lemma | |
| Dwork's method | |
| awards | |
| Cole Prize (1962) | |
| ICM Speaker (1962) | |
| :: |
| name = Bernard Dwork | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = | birth_place = New York City, US | death_date = | death_place = New Brunswick, New Jersey, US | fields = Mathematics | workplaces = Johns Hopkins University Princeton University | alma_mater = Columbia University | doctoral_advisor = Emil Artin John Tate | doctoral_students = Stefan Burr Nick Katz | known_for = Dwork conjecture Dwork family Dwork's lemma Dwork's method | awards = Cole Prize (1962) ICM Speaker (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. 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.
Career
Dwork studied electrical engineering at the City College of New York and Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. He served in the Pacific theater of World War II.
He received his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1954 under direction of Emil Artin (his formal advisor was John Tate); Nick Katz was one of his students.
He spent 3 years at Harvard University and 7 years at Johns Hopkins University before joining Princeton University as a faculty member in 1964. He became Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics in 1978 and became emeritus in 1993. He was named a Professore di Chiara Fama by the Italian government and held a special chair at the University of Padua from 1992 onwards.
Awards and honors
For his proof of the first part of the Weil conjectures, Dwork received (together with Kenkichi Iwasawa) the Cole Prize in 1962. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1964.
Personal life
Dwork was married to Shirley Dwork and is the father of computer scientist Cynthia Dwork, historian Deborah Dwork, and Andrew Dwork.
References
References
- (May 25, 1998). "Bernard Dwork Obituary".
- {{MathGenealogy
- [https://www.ams.org/notices/199903/mem-dwork.pdf Memorial article] – by [[Nick Katz]] and [[John Tate (mathematician). John Tate]].
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