Joseph Bernstein (sometimes spelled I. N. Bernshtein; he, יוס(י)ף נאומוביץ ברנשטיין; russian: Иосиф Наумович Бернштейн; born 18 April 1945) is a Soviet-born Israeli
mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...
working at
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...
. He works in
algebraic geometry,
representation theory
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, and
number theory
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.
Biography
Bernstein received his
Ph.D.
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in 1972 under
Israel Gelfand
Israel Moiseevich Gelfand, also written Israïl Moyseyovich Gel'fand, or Izrail M. Gelfand ( yi, ישראל געלפֿאַנד, russian: Изра́иль Моисе́евич Гельфа́нд, uk, Ізраїль Мойсейович Гел� ...
at
Moscow State University
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. In 1981, he emigrated to the United States due to growing
anti-semitism
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Ant ...
in the Soviet Union.
Bernstein was a professor at
Harvard during 1983-1993.
He was a visiting scholar at the
Institute for Advanced Study
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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
International Mathematical Olympiad
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. He was elected to the
Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
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in 2002 and was elected to the
United States National Academy of Sciences
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in 2004. In 2004, Bernstein was awarded the
Israel Prize for mathematics. In 1998, he was an Invited Speaker of the
International Congress of Mathematicians
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The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize (to be rename ...
in Berlin. In 2012, he became a fellow of the
American Mathematical Society
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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''
* Beilinson, A. A.; Bernstein, J.; Deligne, P. ''Faisceaux pervers.'' (Perverse sheaves The mathematical term perverse sheaves refers to a certain abelian category associated to a topological space ''X'', which may be a real or complex manifold, or a more general topologically stratified space, usually singular. This concept was int ...
) Analysis and topology on singular spaces, I (Luminy, 1981), 5-171, Astérisque, 100, Soc. Math. France, Paris, 1982.
See also
* Bernstein–Sato polynomial In mathematics, the Bernstein–Sato polynomial is a polynomial related to differential operators, introduced independently by and , . It is also known as the b-function, the b-polynomial, and the Bernstein polynomial, though it is not related to ...
* Bernstein–Gelfand–Gelfand resolution
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
Tel Aviv University faculty
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
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