John Friedlander

John Benjamin Friedlander (born October 4, 1941 in Toronto ) is a Canadian mathematician who deals with analytical number theory.

Friedlander in Oberwolfach 2008

Friedlander studied at the University of Toronto (Bachelor in 1965) and the University of Waterloo (Master in 1966). In 1972 he received his PhD under Sarvadaman Chowla at Pennsylvania State University ( The Distribution of Power Residues in Algebraic Number Fields ). From 1974 to 1976 he was a lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and from 1977 taught at the University of Toronto. He has been a University Professor there since 2002. From 1987 to 1991 he headed the mathematics faculty. He was at the Institute for Advanced Study several times (first from 1972 to 1974 as assistant to Atle Selberg ).

In 1992/92 he was at MSRI . He is a founding fellow of the Fields Institute .

He worked with Enrico Bombieri and Henryk Iwaniec , among others . With Iwaniec he proved in 1997 (using the asymptotic sieve by Bombieri, which they refined) that an infinite number of prime numbers can be represented as the sum of a square and a fourth power.

He also deals with number theoretic applications in cryptography.

In 1999 he received the Canadian Jeffery Williams Prize. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1988) and Associate Editor of the Canadian Journal of Mathematics. In 2002 he received the CRM Fields PIMS Prize . From 2003 to 2005 he was a Killam Fellow. He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society . For 2017, he and Henryk Iwaniec were awarded the AMS Joseph L. Doob Prize for their book on sieving methods (Opera de Cribro, American Mathematical Society, 2010).

In 1994 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Zurich ( Bounds for L-Functions ).

Cem Yıldırım is one of his doctoral students .

Web links

John Friedlander ( Memento from September 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) - Homepage at the University of Toronto (English)
Friedlander, John at Focus on Research , University of Toronto (English; with picture)
Publications

Individual evidence

^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
^ With Henryk Iwaniec: The polynomial captures its primes. ${\ displaystyle x ^ {2} + y ^ {4}}$ In: Annals of Mathematics . Vol. 148, No. 3, 1998, pp. 945-1040, doi : 10.2307 / 121034 .
^ Friedlander: Uniform Distribution, exponential sums and cryptography. In: Andrew Granville , Zeev Rudnick (Ed.): Equidistribution in Number Theory. An Introduction (= NATO Science Series. Series 2: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. 237). Springer, Dordrecht 2007, ISBN 978-1-4020-5402-0 , pp. 29-57, doi : 10.1007 / 978-1-4020-5404-4_3 .
↑ 2017 AMS Joseph L. Doob Prize

personal data
SURNAME	Friedlander, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Friedlander, John B .; Friedlander, John Benjamin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	October 4, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH	Toronto

[1] Mathematics Genealogy Project

[2] With Henryk Iwaniec: The polynomial captures its primes. ${\ displaystyle x ^ {2} + y ^ {4}}$ In: Annals of Mathematics . Vol. 148, No. 3, 1998, pp. 945-1040, doi : 10.2307 / 121034 .

[3] Friedlander: Uniform Distribution, exponential sums and cryptography. In: Andrew Granville , Zeev Rudnick (Ed.): Equidistribution in Number Theory. An Introduction (= NATO Science Series. Series 2: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. 237). Springer, Dordrecht 2007, ISBN 978-1-4020-5402-0 , pp. 29-57, doi : 10.1007 / 978-1-4020-5404-4_3 .

[4] 2017 AMS Joseph L. Doob Prize