Prof. David Kazhdan becomes first Israeli to win the Shaw Prize

Prof. David Kazhdan becomes first Israeli to win the Shaw Prize
1st June 2020 admin_bfhu

Prof. David Kazhdan is one of the great luminaries of the representation theory, his originality and knowledge are incomprehensible.

Kazhdan is one of two recipients to win the prize; he shared the Shaw Prize of $1.2 million with another researcher from the University of Chicago, Alexander Beilinson. They won the prize for their “huge influence on and profound contributions to representation theory, as well as many other areas of mathematics.”

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