标题: 本尼迪克特-H-格罗斯 数学家 [打印本页] 作者: shiyi18 时间: 2022-2-28 10:01 标题: 本尼迪克特-H-格罗斯 数学家 Benedict H. Gross
Mathematics | Class of 1986
Title
Mathematics
Location
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Age
36 at time of award
Area of Focus
Mathematics, Statistics, and Probability
Published August 1, 1986
ABOUT BENEDICT'S WORK
Benedict Gross is a mathematician who has contributed decisively to number theory, algebraic geometry, modular forms and group representations.
Gross has investigated the special values and derivatives of L-series modular forms and has helped to obtain a limit formula using canonical heights on curves. This limit formula offers a new approach to the classical problem of finding the solutions of cubic equations. His work also has led to the resolution of a problem on the class numbers of quadratic fields, which dates back to the nineteenth-century mathematician, Karl Friedrich Gauss.
BIOGRAPHY
In addition to his numerous journal publications, Gross is the author of Arithmetic on Elliptical Curves with Complex Multiplication (2000) and co-author of The Magic of Numbers (2004), based on his course in quantitative reasoning, which provides a readable introduction to the patterns that emerge in number behavior and the often surprising applications of those patterns. Gross has held teaching appointments at Princeton University (1978-1982), Brown University (1982-1985) and since 1985, at Harvard University. He is the George Vassmer Leverett Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University and became the Dean of Harvard College in 2003.
Gross received a B.A. (1971) and a Ph.D. (1978) from Harvard University, and a M.Sc. (1974) from the University of Oxford.