Sheldon Katz
Sheldon H. Katz (born December 19, 1956 in Brooklyn ) is an American mathematician.
Katz won First Prize at the US Mathematical Olympiad in 1973. He received his bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976 and received his PhD from Princeton University with Robert Gunning in 1980 ( Deformations of Linear Systems, Divisors and Weierstrass Points on Curves ). From 1980 he was an instructor at the University of Utah and from 1984 Assistant Professor, 1989 Associate Professor and from 1994 Professor at Oklahoma State University , 1997 to 1999 as Southwestern Bell Professor and from 1999 as Regents Professor . From 2001 he is a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
In 1982/83 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study . He was visiting professor at the Mittag-Leffler Institute (1997), at Duke University (1991/92) and at the University of Bayreuth (1989).
He deals with algebraic geometry and its applications in string theory (mirror symmetry) and supersymmetry . Accordingly, he also publishes a lot in physics journals.
He has been a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society since 2013 .
Fonts
- with Rahul Pandharipande, Cumrun Vafa , Ravi Vakil , Eric Zaslow, Kentaro Hori, Albrecht Klemm, Richard Thomas : Mirror Symmetry , Clay Mathematics Monographs, Volume 1, 2003
- with David A. Cox : Mirror Symmetry and Algebraic Geometry , AMS 1999
- Enumerative Geometry and String Theory , AMS, Student Mathematical Library, 2006
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sheldon Katz in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Katz, Sheldon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Katz, Sheldon H. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 19, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn |