Ofer Gabber (; born May 16, 1958) is a mathematician working 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 ...
.
Life
In 1978 Gabber received a
Ph.D. from
Harvard University
Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...
for the thesis ''Some theorems on Azumaya algebras,'' written under the supervision of
Barry Mazur
Barry Charles Mazur (; born December 19, 1937) is an American mathematician and the Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University. His contributions to mathematics include his contributions to Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in ...
. Gabber has been at the
Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques
The Institut des hautes études scientifiques (IHÉS; English: Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies) is a French research institute supporting advanced research in mathematics and theoretical physics (also with a small theoretical biology g ...
in Bures-sur-Yvette in Paris since 1984 as a
CNRS
The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe.
In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 eng ...
senior researcher. He won the
Erdős Prize
The Anna and Lajos Erdős Prize in Mathematics is a prize given by the Israel Mathematical Union to an Israeli mathematician (in any field of mathematics and computer science), "with preference to candidates up to the age of 40." The prize was e ...
in 1981 and the Prix Thérèse Gautier from the
French Academy of Sciences
The French Academy of Sciences (, ) is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French Scientific method, scientific research. It was at the forefron ...
in 2011. In 1981 Gabber with
Victor Kac
Victor Gershevich (Grigorievich) Kac (; born 19 December 1943) is a Soviet and American mathematician at MIT, known for his work in representation theory. He co-discovered Kac–Moody algebras, and used the Weyl–Kac character formula for th ...
published a proof of a conjecture stated by Kac in 1968.
Books
* With
Lorenzo Ramero: ''Almost Ring Theory'', Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1800, 2003.
* With
Brian Conrad,
Gopal Prasad: ''Pseudo-reductive Groups'', Cambridge University Press, 2010
2015, 2nd editionref>
See also
*
Gabber rigidity
*
Almost ring theory
*
t-structure
In the branch of mathematics called homological algebra, a ''t''-structure is a way to axiomatize the properties of an abelian subcategory of a derived category. A ''t''-structure on \mathcal consists of two subcategories (\mathcal^, \mathcal^) o ...
*
Theorem of absolute purity
References
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Israeli mathematicians
Algebraic geometers
Living people
1958 births
Harvard University alumni
Erdős Prize recipients