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David Kazhdan
Born (1946-06-20) 20 June 1946 (age 78)
NationalityIsraeli
Alma materMoscow State University
Known forKazhdan–Lusztig polynomial
Kazhdan–Margulis theorem
Kazhdan's property (T)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsHebrew University of Jerusalem
Harvard University
Doctoral advisorAlexandre Kirillov
Doctoral studentsMisha Verbitsky
Vladimir Voevodsky

David Kazhdan (Hebrew: דוד קשדן), born Dmitry Aleksandrovich Kazhdan (Russian: Дми́трий Александро́вич Кажда́н), is a Soviet and Israeli mathematician known for work in representation theory. Kazhdan is a 1990 MacArthur Fellow.

Biography

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Kazhdan was born on 20 June 1946 in Moscow, USSR.[1] His father is Alexander Kazhdan. He earned a doctorate under Alexandre Kirillov in 1969 and was a member of Israel Gelfand's school of mathematics. He is Jewish, and emigrated from the Soviet Union to take a position at Harvard University in 1975. He changed his name from Dmitri Aleksandrovich to David and became an Orthodox Jew around that time.

In 2002, he immigrated to Israel and is now a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as well as a professor emeritus at Harvard.

On October 6, 2013, Kazhdan was critically injured in a car accident while riding a bicycle in Jerusalem.[2]

Kazhdan has four children. His son, Eli Kazhdan, was general director of Natan Sharansky's Yisrael BaAliyah political party (now merged with Likud).

Research

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He is known for collaboration with Israel Gelfand, Victor Kac, George Lusztig (on the Kazhdan–Lusztig conjectureonVerma modules), with Grigory Margulis (Kazhdan–Margulis theorem), with Yuval Flicker and S. J. Patterson on the representations of metaplectic groups. Kazhdan's property (T) is widely used in representation theory.

Kazhdan held a MacArthur Fellowship from 1990 to 1995. He was the doctoral advisor of Vladimir Voevodsky, a recipient of the Fields Medal, one of the highest awards in mathematics. Kazhdan has been a member of United States National Academy of Sciences since 1990, of the Israel Academy of Sciences since 2006, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2008. In 2012, he was awarded the Israel Prize, the country's highest academic honor, for mathematics and computer science.[3] In 2020 he received the Shaw Prize in Mathematics.[4]

Selected publications

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References

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  1. ^ The MacArthur Fellows Program: the first decade, 1981-1991. 1993. p. 180.
  • ^ "Israel Prize winner in serious condition following hit-and-run in Jerusalem". The Jerusalem Post | Jpost.com.
  • ^ "Israel Prize for mathematics and computer science for 2012 to Prof. David Kazhdan". Archived from the original on 2013-09-21. Retrieved 2012-04-15.
  • ^ Shaw Prize 2020
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