Tadeusz Iwaniec (born October 9, 1947 in Elbląg) is a

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, and since 1996 John Raymond French Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Syracuse University.Biography of Tadeusz Iwaniec
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Henryk Iwaniec Henryk Iwaniec (born October 9, 1947) is a Polish-American mathematician, and since 1987 a professor at Rutgers University. Background and education Iwaniec studied at the University of Warsaw, where he got his PhD in 1972 under Andrzej Schin ...

are twin brothers.

Awards and honors

Iwaniec was given the Prize of the President of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 1980, the Alfred Jurzykowski Award in Mathematics in 1997, the Prix 2001 Institut Henri-Poincaré Gauthier-Villars, and the 2009 Sierpinski Medal of the Polish Mathematical Society and Warsaw University. In 1998 he was elected as a foreign member of the Academia di Scienze Fisiche e Matematiche, Italy and in 2012 as a foreign member of the

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