Jan Hendrik Bruinier (born 21 October 1971) is a German

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, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...

, whose work focuses on

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Work

In 2011, together with Ken Ono, he developed a finite algebraic formula for the values of the partition function.

Recognition

He was named to the 2023 class of Fellows of the

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, "for contributions to number theory, automorphic forms, and arithmetic geometry".

External links

Bruinier's homepage at the TU Darmstadt

References

21st-century German mathematicians Number theorists 1971 births Living people Fellows of the American Mathematical Society {{Germany-mathematician-stub