László Lempert (4 June 1952, in

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) is a

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mathematician, working in several complex variables and complex geometry. He proved that the Carathéodory and Kobayashi distances agree on convex domains. He further proved that a compact, strictly pseudoconvex real analytic hypersurface can be embedded into the unit sphere of a Hilbert space.

Life

Lempert graduated from the

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in 1975. He was at the Analysis Department of the same university (1977–1988) and is a professor of

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since 1988. He was a visiting research fellow at the Université de Paris VII (1979–1980), visiting lecturer at the

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(1984–1985), and visiting professor at the

(1994–1995).

Degrees, awards

Lempert received the Candidate of the mathematical sciences degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1984. He was an invited session speaker at the

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, in Berkeley, California, 1986. He won the

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Prize in 2001. He was elected an external member of the

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(2004). In 2012 he became a fellow of the

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.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2013-01-27.

References

External links

Lempert and Webster receive 2001 Bergman Prize
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'', 48(2001), 998–999. 1952 births Living people 20th-century American mathematicians 20th-century Hungarian mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians 21st-century Hungarian mathematicians Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Fellows of the American Mathematical Society {{US-mathematician-stub