Alexandre Eremenko (born 1954 in

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who works in the fields of

complex analysis Complex analysis, traditionally known as the theory of functions of a complex variable, is the branch of mathematical analysis that investigates Function (mathematics), functions of complex numbers. It is helpful in many branches of mathemati ...

and

dynamical systems In mathematics, a dynamical system is a system in which a function describes the time dependence of a point in an ambient space. Examples include the mathematical models that describe the swinging of a clock pendulum, the flow of water in a p ...

. He is a grandnephew of a

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Academic career

Eremenko was born into a medical family. His father Emmanuel Berger was a pathophysiologist, professor and head of the Department of pathophysiology at

Ternopil National Medical University Ivan Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University or simply Ternopil National Medical University ( uk, Тернопільський національний медичний університет імені І. Я. Горбачевсько� ...

. His mother Neonila Eremenko was an ophthalmologist. He obtained his master's degree from

Lviv University The University of Lviv ( uk, Львівський університет, Lvivskyi universytet; pl, Uniwersytet Lwowski; german: Universität Lemberg, briefly known as the ''Theresianum'' in the early 19th century), presently the Ivan Franko Na ...

in 1976 and worked in the Institute of Low temperature physics and Engineering in Kharkiv until 1990. He received his PhD from

Rostov State University Southern Federal University (), abbreviated as SFedU () and formerly known as Rostov State University (1957–2006), is a public university in Rostov Oblast, Russia with campuses in Rostov-on-Don and Taganrog Taganrog ( rus, Таганр� ...

in 1979 ''(Asymptotic Properties of Meromorphic and Subharmonic Functions),'' and is currently a distinguished professor at

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. In complex dynamics, Eremenko explored

escaping set In mathematics, and particularly complex dynamics, the escaping set of an entire function ƒ consists of all points that tend to infinity under the repeated application of ƒ. That is, a complex number z_0\in\mathbb belongs to the escaping set if ...

s at the iteration of entire, transcendent functions and conjectured that the connected components of this escaping set are unbounded ''(Eremenko's conjecture).'' The conjecture is still open.

Distinctions

Eremenko was a recipient of the

Humboldt Prize The Humboldt Prize, the Humboldt-Forschungspreis in German, also known as the Humboldt Research Award, is an award given by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany to internationally renowned scientists and scholars who work outside of G ...

in Mathematics. In 2013 he became a

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of the

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, for "contributions to value distribution theory, geometric function theory, and other areas of analysis and complex dynamics".2014 Class of the Fellows of the AMS

, retrieved 2013-11-04. He was an invited speaker in the International congress of mathematicians in Beijing in 2002.

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Academic career

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