Benedict Gross

Benedict Hyman Gross (born June 22, 1950 in South Orange , New Jersey ) is an American mathematician who works in arithmetic algebraic geometry and number theory.

Gross studied at Harvard (Bachelor 1971) and Oxford (Master 1974) and received his doctorate in 1978 from Harvard with John T. Tate . 1978 to 1982 he was assistant professor at Princeton (1980 Maitre des Conferences at the University of Paris VII.), 1982 to 1985 assistant professor at Brown University . He has been a professor at Harvard since 1985, where he was Dean of Harvard College from 2003 to 2007.

Gross is best known for his work with Don Zagier from the 1980s on the L-functions of elliptic curves and the associated solution of the general Gaussian class number problem .

In 1992 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 2004 to the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, and in 2017 to the American Philosophical Society . In 1987 he received the Cole Prize in number theory. He was a Sloan Research Fellow from 1980 to 1983 and a MacArthur Fellow from 1986 to 1991 . In 1986 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berkeley ( Heights and L-series ). In 2019 he will hold the Colloquium Lectures of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), of which he is a fellow.

His PhD students include Henri Darmon , Dipendra Prasad , Wee Teck Gan, and Noam Elkies .

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SURNAME	Gross, Benedict
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gross, Benedict H .; Gross, Benedict Hyman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	June 22, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH	South Orange , New Jersey , USA