Ofer Gabber

Ofer Gabber (עופר גאבר; born May 16, 1958) is a mathematician working in algebraic geometry.

Ofer Gabber at Oberwolfach in 2004

Life

In 1978 Gabber received a Ph.D. from Harvard University for the thesis Some theorems on Azumaya algebras, written under the supervision of Barry Mazur.[1] Gabber has been at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques in Bures-sur-Yvette in Paris since 1984 as a CNRS senior researcher. He won the Erdős Prize in 1981 and the Prix Thérèse Gautier from the French Academy of Sciences in 2011. In 1981 Gabber with Victor Kac published a proof of a conjecture stated by Kac in 1968.[2]

Books

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References

  1. Ofer Gabber at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. Gabber, Ofer; Kac, Victor G. (1981). "On defining relations of certain infinite-dimensional Lie algebras". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 5 (2): 185–190. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-1981-14940-5. ISSN 0273-0979.
  3. Zaldivar, Felipe (October 6, 2015). "Review of Pseudo-reductive Groups, 2nd edition, by Brian Conrad, Ofer Gabber, and Gopal Prasad". MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.
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