Elon Lindenstrauss (; born August 1, 1970) is an 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 ...

, and a winner of the 2010

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. Since 2004, he has been a professor at

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. In 2009, he was appointed as a Professor at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics at the

Hebrew University The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; ) is an Israeli public research university based in Jerusalem. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Chaim Weizmann in July 1918, the public university officially opened on 1 April 1925. It is the second-ol ...

. In 2024 he was appointed a permanent faculty member in the School of Mathematics of the

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Biography

Lindenstrauss was born into an Israeli-Jewish family with

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origins, the son of the mathematician Joram Lindenstrauss, the namesake of the

Johnson–Lindenstrauss lemma In mathematics, the Johnson–Lindenstrauss lemma is a result named after William B. Johnson and Joram Lindenstrauss concerning low-distortion embeddings of points from high-dimensional into low-dimensional Euclidean space. The lemma states that ...

, and computer scientist Naomi Lindenstrauss, both professors at the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; ) is an Israeli public university, public research university based in Jerusalem. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Chaim Weizmann in July 1918, the public university officially opened on 1 April 1925. ...

. His sister Ayelet Lindenstrauss is also a mathematician. He attended the Hebrew University Secondary School. In 1988 he was awarded a bronze medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad. He enlisted to the IDF's Talpiot program and studied at the

, where he earned his BSc in

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and

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in 1991 and his master's degree in mathematics in 1995. In 1999 he finished his Ph.D., his thesis being "Entropy properties of dynamical systems", under the guidance of Prof. Benjamin Weiss. He was a member at the

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, then a Szego Assistant Prof. at

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. From 2003 to 2005, he was a Long Term Prize Fellow at the Clay Mathematics Institute.

Academic career

In Fall 2014, he was a Visiting Miller Professor at the

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. Lindenstrauss is an editor for

Duke Mathematical Journal ''Duke Mathematical Journal'' is a peer-reviewed mathematics journal published by Duke University Press. It was established in 1935. The founding editors-in-chief were David Widder, Arthur Coble, and Joseph Miller Thomas. The first issue inclu ...

and

Journal d'Analyse Mathématique The ''Journal d'Analyse Mathématique'' is a triannual peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Springer Science+Business Media on behalf of Magnes Press (Hebrew University of Jerusalem). It was established in 1951 by Binyamin Amirà. The jo ...

. Lindenstrauss works in the area of dynamics, particularly in the area of

ergodic theory Ergodic theory is a branch of mathematics that studies statistical properties of deterministic dynamical systems; it is the study of ergodicity. In this context, "statistical properties" refers to properties which are expressed through the behav ...

and its applications in

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. With Anatole Katok and Manfred Einsiedler, he made progress on the Littlewood conjecture. In a series of two papers (one co-authored with

Jean Bourgain Jean Louis, baron Bourgain (; – ) was a Belgian mathematician. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1994 in recognition of his work on several core topics of mathematical analysis such as the geometry of Banach spaces, harmonic analysis, ergodi ...

) he made major progress on Peter Sarnak's Arithmetic Quantum Unique Ergodicity conjecture. The proof of the conjecture was completed by

Kannan Soundararajan Kannan Soundararajan (born December 27, 1973) is an Indian-born American mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. Before moving to Stanford in 2006, he was a faculty member at University of Michigan, where he had also ...

. Recently with Manfred Einsiedler, Philippe Michel and Akshay Venkatesh, he studied distributions of torus periodic orbits in some arithmetic spaces, generalizing theorems by

Hermann Minkowski Hermann Minkowski (22 June 1864 – 12 January 1909) was a mathematician and professor at the University of Königsberg, the University of Zürich, and the University of Göttingen, described variously as German, Polish, Lithuanian-German, o ...

and

Yuri Linnik Yuri Vladimirovich Linnik (; January 8, 1915 – June 30, 1972) was a Soviet mathematician active in number theory, probability theory and mathematical statistics. Biography Linnik was born in Bila Tserkva, in present-day Ukraine. He went to ...

. Together with Benjamin Weiss he developed and studied systematically the invariant of mean dimension introduced in 1999 by Mikhail Gromov. In related work he introduced and studied the small boundary property and stated fundamental conjectures.

Awards and recognition

*In 1988, Lindenstrauss represented Israel in the

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and won a bronze medal. *During his service in the IDF, he was awarded the Israel Defense Prize. *In 2003, he was awarded the Salem Prize jointly with

. *In 2004, he was awarded the

European Mathematical Society The European Mathematical Society (EMS) is a European organization dedicated to the development of mathematics in Europe. Its members are different mathematical societies in Europe, academic institutions and individual mathematicians. The curren ...

Prize. *In 2008, he received the

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Memorial Award. *In 2009, he was awarded the Erdős Prize. *In 2009, he received the

Fermat Prize The Fermat prize of mathematics, mathematical research biennially rewards research works in fields where the contributions of Pierre de Fermat have been decisive: * Statements of variational principles * Foundations of probability and analytic geo ...

. *In 2010, he became the first Israeli to be awarded the

, ''for his results on measure rigidity in

, and their applications to

''.

References

External links

Homepage at Hebrew University
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lindenstrauss, Elon 1970 births Living people 20th-century Israeli mathematicians 21st-century Israeli mathematicians Dynamical systems theorists Fields Medalists Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars Institute for Advanced Study faculty Einstein Institute of Mathematics alumni Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem International Mathematical Olympiad participants Israel Defense Prize recipients Israeli Jews Israeli people of German-Jewish descent Scientists from Jerusalem Princeton University faculty Erdős Prize recipients Talpiot program alumni Hebrew University Secondary School alumni

Biography

Academic career

Awards and recognition

See also

References

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