Charles Fefferman

Charles Fefferman (2006)

Charles Louis Fefferman (born April 18, 1949 in Washington, DC ) is an American mathematician at Princeton University . In 1978 he was awarded the Fields Medal .

life and work

Fefferman was a child prodigy , reportedly mastering calculus by the age of 12 and attending the University of Maryland at age 14 , where he received his Bachelor's degree with honors in 1966. In 1969 he received his doctorate from Princeton University under Elias Stein with the thesis Inequalities for Strongly Regular Convolution Operators on convolution operators . In 1970 he became a Sloan Research Fellow .

At the age of 22 he got a position as full professor at the University of Chicago in 1971 , making him the youngest full professor in the USA to date . But he was already teaching at Princeton in 1969. At the age of 24 he returned to a professorship at Princeton in 1973, where he has been Herbert Jones Professor since 1984.

Fefferman worked in the field of the function theory of several variables (e.g. Bergman kernels), the partial differential equations , singular integrals, Fourier analysis (convergence behavior of Fourier series in n-dimensional Euclidean space and on the torus) and functional analysis (e.g. Distributions spaces).

In 1972 he and Elias Stein demonstrated the duality of the BMO space introduced by Louis Nirenberg and Fritz John from functions to the real Hardy space . ${\displaystyle H^{1}(\mathbb {R} ^{n})}$

In 1971 he was awarded the Salem Prize . In 1972 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1976 he received the Alan T. Waterman Award and in 1978 the Fields Medal for his work in the field of analysis . In 1992 he received the Bergman Prize. In 2008 he received the Bôcher Memorial Prize . In 2017 he was awarded the Wolf Prize in Mathematics. In 1974 he gave a plenary lecture at the ICM in Vancouver (Recent Progress in Classical Fourier Analysis).

In 1979 Fefferman was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences . Since 1988 he has been a member of the American Philosophical Society .

His brother Robert Fefferman is also a mathematician.

Fonts

• with C. Robin Graham: The ambient metric , Princeton University Press 2012

literature

• Antonio Córdoba: Ad honorem Charles Fefferman, Notices AMS, 2017, no.11, online

Web links

• John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson :  Charles Fefferman. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
• PhD students from Charles Fefferman
• Videos by and about Charles Fefferman in the Technical Information Library AV Portal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fefferman, Stein Hp spaces of several variables , Acta Mathematica, Volume 129, 1972, pp. 137-193. Announced by Fefferman 1971 in Characterization of bounded mean oscillation , Bulletin AMS, Volume 77, 1971, p. 587/8 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Member History: Charles L. Fefferman. American Philosophical Society, accessed August 4, 2018 .