Background
Harbater, David was born on December 19, 1952 in New York City. Son of Maurice and Marilyn (Haber) Harbater.
Harbater, David was born on December 19, 1952 in New York City. Son of Maurice and Marilyn (Haber) Harbater.
AB summa cum laude, Harvard University, 1974; Master of Science in Mathematics, Brandeis U., 1975; Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1978; Master of Arts (honorary), University Pennsylvania, 1984.
After graduating in 1970, he entered Harvard University. After graduating summa cum laude in 1974, Harbater earned a master's degree from Brandeis University and then a Ph.D. in 1978 from MIT, where he wrote a dissertation (Deformation Theory and the Fundamental Group in Algebraic Geometry) under the direction of Michael Artin. He has also solved the inverse Galois problem over , and made many other significant contributions to the field of Galois theory.
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. Harbater's recent work on patching over fields, together with Julia Hartmann and Daniel Krashen, has had applications in such varied fields as quadratic forms, central simple algebras and local-global principles.
Member American Mathematics Society (postdoctoral fellow 1978-1979, Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Algebra, 1995), Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.