David Dror Ben-Zvi is an American mathematician, currently the Joe B. and Louise Cook Professor of Mathematics at University of Texas at Austin.[1]
Ben-Zvi was born in the San Francisco Bay Area, and grew up in Rehovot, Israel, and Setauket New York. He graduated a Valedictorian from Ward Melville High School and was a finalist in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search. Ben-Zvi attended college at Princeton University.
Ben-Zvi earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1999, with a dissertation titled Spectral Curves, Opers And Integrable Systems supervised by Edward Frenkel.[2] In 2012, he became one of the inaugural Fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[3]
References
- โ "David Ben-Zvi". utexas.edu. Retrieved December 11, 2016.
- โ David Ben-Zvi at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- โ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2017-04-12
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