Ehud de Shalit (; born 16 March 1955) is an Israeli
number theorist and professor at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; ) is an Israeli public university, public research university based in Jerusalem. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Chaim Weizmann in July 1918, the public university officially opened on 1 April 1925. ...
.
Biography
Ehud de Shalit was born in
Rehovot
Rehovot (, / ) is a city in the Central District (Israel), Central District of Israel, about south of Tel Aviv. In it had a population of .
Etymology
Israel Belkind, founder of the Bilu (movement), Bilu movement, proposed the name "Rehovot ...
. His father was
Amos de-Shalit. He completed his
B.Sc. at the Hebrew University in 1975, and his
Ph.D. at
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...
in 1984 under the supervision of
Andrew Wiles
Sir Andrew John Wiles (born 11 April 1953) is an English mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford, specialising in number theory. He is best known for Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, proving Ferma ...
.
Academic career
De Shalit joined the faculty of Hebrew University in 1987 and was promoted to full professor in 2001.
He is an editor for the
Israel Journal of Mathematics
'' Israel Journal of Mathematics'' is a peer-reviewed mathematics journal published by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ( Magnes Press).
History
Founded in 1963, as a continuation of the ''Bulletin of the Research Council of Israel'' (Section ...
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Published works
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1955 births
Living people
Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Israeli Jews
Israeli mathematicians
Number theorists
People from Rehovot
Princeton University alumni
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