Joseph Bernstein (sometimes spelled I. N. Bernshtein; ; ; born 18 April 1945) is a Soviet-born Israeli

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...

working at

Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) is a Public university, public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Located in northwest Tel Aviv, the university is the center of teaching and ...

. He works in

algebraic geometry Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics which uses abstract algebraic techniques, mainly from commutative algebra, to solve geometry, geometrical problems. Classically, it studies zero of a function, zeros of multivariate polynomials; th ...

representation theory Representation theory is a branch of mathematics that studies abstract algebra, abstract algebraic structures by ''representing'' their element (set theory), elements as linear transformations of vector spaces, and studies Module (mathematics), ...

, and

number theory Number theory is a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to the study of the integers and arithmetic functions. Number theorists study prime numbers as well as the properties of mathematical objects constructed from integers (for example ...

Biography

Bernstein received his Ph.D. in 1972 under

Israel Gelfand Israel Moiseevich Gelfand, also written Israïl Moyseyovich Gel'fand, or Izrail M. Gelfand (, , ; – 5 October 2009) was a prominent Soviet and American mathematician, one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century, biologist, teache ...

Moscow State University Moscow State University (MSU), officially M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University,. is a public university, public research university in Moscow, Russia. The university includes 15 research institutes, 43 faculties, more than 300 departments, a ...

. In 1981, he emigrated to the United States due to growing

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in the Soviet Union. Bernstein was a professor at

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during 1983-1993. He was a visiting scholar at the

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in 1985-86 and again in 1997-98. In 1993, he moved to Israel to take a professorship at Tel Aviv University (emeritus since 2014).

Awards and honors

Bernstein received a gold medal at the 1962

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. He was elected to the

Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, based in Jerusalem, was established in 1961 by the State of Israel to foster contact between Israeli scholars in the sciences and humanities and create a think tank for advising the government on res ...

in 2002 and was elected to the

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in 2004. In 2004, Bernstein was awarded the

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for mathematics. In 1998, he was an Invited Speaker of the

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in Berlin. In 2012, he became a fellow of the

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.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2012-11-10.

Publications

Some pdf files of papers by Bernstein
includin
Algebraic theory of D-modules
and his notes on ''Meromorphic continuation of Eisenstein series'' *

References

External links

Bernstein's home page
* 1945 births Living people 20th-century Russian mathematicians 21st-century Russian mathematicians Israeli mathematicians Russian emigrants to Israel Russian Jews Israeli Jews Jewish scientists Algebraic geometers Group theorists Number theorists Israel Prize in mathematics recipients EMET Prize recipients in the Exact Sciences Moscow State University alumni Academic staff of Tel Aviv University Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Members of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Soviet Jews Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars International Mathematical Olympiad participants {{Israel-scientist-stub

Biography

Awards and honors

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