Barry Charles Mazur is an American mathematician and a Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University.
Education
Born in New York City, Mazur attended the Bronx High School of Science and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, although he did not graduate from the latter on account of failing a then-present Reserve Officers Training Corps requirement. Regardless, he was accepted for graduate school and received his Doctor of Philosophy from Princeton University in 1959, becoming a Junior Fellow at Harvard from 1961 to 1964.
Career
He is the Gerhard Gade University Professor and a Senior Fellow at Harvard. produces, without effort, innumerable problems which have a sweet, innocent air about them, tempting flowers. And yet.. number theory swarms with bugs, waiting to bite the tempted flower-lovers who, once bitten, are inspired to excesses of effort! He expanded his thoughts in the 2003 book Imagining Numbers and Circles Disturbed, a collection of essays on mathematics and narrative that he edited with writer Apostolos Doxiadis.
Membership
American Mathematical Society. National Academy of Sciences]
In 1982 he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and in 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.