Dinesh S. Thakur is an Indian

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and a professor of mathematics at

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. Before moving to Rochester, Thakur was a professor at

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. His main research interest is

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Early life

Thakur was born in Mumbai, India. He attended Balmohan Vidyamandir School in Bombay. He completed his undergraduate studies at Ruia College,

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. He got his Ph.D in 1987 at

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under the guidance of Professor John Tate.

Career

Thakur has spent three and half years at

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, Princeton and three years at

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, Bombay. He held positions at

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and

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. He moved to

in 1993. He joined

in July 2013. Thakur wrote a research monograph ''Function Field Arithmetic''. Thakur has been serving on the editorial boards of '' Journal of Number Theory'', ''

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'', and ''P-adic Numbers'', Ultrametric Analysis and Applications. Thakur is a founding member of-and for 15 years a participant in-the NSF-funded Southwest Center for Arithmetic Geometry and the Arizona Winter School. He was elected as a member of the 2017 class of

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s of the

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"for contributions to the arithmetic of function fields, exposition, and service to the mathematical community".

Work

His main work has been in number theory, where he has been instrumental in developing various aspects of function field arithmetic and arithmetic geometry.

References

External links

Home Page at University of RochesterFunction Field ArithmeticMathematics GenealogyList of publications
{{DEFAULTSORT:Thakur, Dinesh S. 1961 births Living people 21st-century Indian mathematicians Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Indian expatriates in the United States Indian number theorists Scientists from Maharashtra University of Michigan faculty University of Mumbai alumni University of Rochester faculty