Elon Lindenstrauss is an Israeli mathematician, and a winner of the 2010 Fields Meda
Background
Lindenstrauss was born into an Israeli-Jewish family with German origins. He was also born into a mathematical family, the son of the mathematician Joram Lindenstrauss, the namesake of the Johnson–Lindenstrauss lemma, and computer scientist Naomi Lindenstrauss, both professors at the Hebrew University.
Education
He attended the Hebrew University Secondary School. He enlisted to the Israel Defense Forces"s Talpiot program, and studied at the Hebrew University, where he earned his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Physics in 1991 and his Master"s degree in Mathematics in 1995. In 1999 he finished his Doctor of Philosophy, his thesis being "Entropy properties of dynamical systems", under the guidance of Professor
Benjamin Weiss.
Career
Since 2004, he has been a professor at Princeton University. In 2009, he was appointed to Professor at the Mathematics Institute at the Hebrew University. He was a member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, then a Szego Assistant Professor at Stanford University.
Lindenstrauss works in the area of dynamics, particularly in the area of ergodic theory and its applications in number theory.
With Anatole Katok and Manfred Einsiedler, he made progress on the Littlewood conjecture. In a series of two papers (one co-authored with Jean Bourgain) he made major progress on Peter Sarnak"s Arithmetic Quantum Unique Ergodicity conjecture.
The proof of the conjecture was completed by Kannan Soundararajan. Recently with Manfred Einsiedler, Philippe Michel and Akshay Venkatesh, he studied distributions of torus periodic orbits in some arithmetic spaces, generalizing theorems by Hermann Minkowski and Yuri Linnik.
Together with Benjamin Weiss he developed and studied systematically the invariant of mean dimension introduced in 1999 by Mikhail Gromov.
Among his co-authors are Jean Bourgain, Manfred Einsiedler, Philippe Michel, Shahar Mozes, Akshay Venkatesh and Barak Weiss.
Achievements
Membership
Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Connections
Married Abigail Lindenstrauss, November 1997. Children: Noga, Zohar.
Fields Medal; Blumenthal Award
the European Mathematical Society Prize; Israel Defense Prize; Fields Medal; the Michael Bruno Memorial Award; Salem Prize; Long Term Prize Fellow; Fermat Prize; Erdős Prize
In 1988, Lindenstrauss represented Israel in the International Mathematical Olympiad and won a bronze medal.
During his service in the IDF, he was awarded the Israel Defense Prize.
In 2003, he was awarded the Salem Prize jointly with Kannan Soundararajan.
In 2004, he was awarded the European Mathematical Society Prize.
In 2008, he received the Michael Bruno Memorial Award.
In 2009, he was awarded the Erdős Prize.
In 2009, he received the Fermat Prize.
In 2010, he became the first Israeli to be awarded the Fields Medal, for his results on measure rigidity in ergodic theory, and their applications to number theory. The Salem Prize, founded by the widow of Raphael Salem, is awarded every year to a young mathematician judged to have done outstanding work in Salem's field of interest, primarily the theory of Fourier series.; The Anna and Lajos Erdős Prize in Mathematics is a prize given by the Israel Mathematical Union to an Israeli mathematician (in any field of mathematics and computer science), 'with preference to candidates up to the age of 40'.
Fields Medal; Blumenthal Award
the European Mathematical Society Prize; Israel Defense Prize; Fields Medal; the Michael Bruno Memorial Award; Salem Prize; Long Term Prize Fellow; Fermat Prize; Erdős Prize
In 1988, Lindenstrauss represented Israel in the International Mathematical Olympiad and won a bronze medal.
During his service in the IDF, he was awarded the Israel Defense Prize.
In 2003, he was awarded the Salem Prize jointly with Kannan Soundararajan.
In 2004, he was awarded the European Mathematical Society Prize.
In 2008, he received the Michael Bruno Memorial Award.
In 2009, he was awarded the Erdős Prize.
In 2009, he received the Fermat Prize.
In 2010, he became the first Israeli to be awarded the Fields Medal, for his results on measure rigidity in ergodic theory, and their applications to number theory. The Salem Prize, founded by the widow of Raphael Salem, is awarded every year to a young mathematician judged to have done outstanding work in Salem's field of interest, primarily the theory of Fourier series.; The Anna and Lajos Erdős Prize in Mathematics is a prize given by the Israel Mathematical Union to an Israeli mathematician (in any field of mathematics and computer science), 'with preference to candidates up to the age of 40'.