Dinesh Thakur (mathematician)

Dinesh Thakur
Born1961
India
Alma materHarvard University University of Bombay
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Rochester
Doctoral advisorJohn Tate

Dinesh S. Thakur (born 1961) is an Indian mathematician and a professor of mathematics at University of Rochester.[1] Before moving to Rochester, Thakur was a professor at University of Arizona.[2] His main research interest is number theory.

Early life[edit]

Thakur was born in Mumbai, India. He attended Balmohan Vidyamandir School in Bombay and completed his undergraduate education at Ruia College, University of Bombay. He got his Ph.D in 1987 at Harvard University[3] under the guidance of Professor John Tate.[4]

Career[edit]

Thakur has spent three and half years at Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton and three years at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay. He held positions at University of Minnesota and University of Michigan. He moved to University of Arizona in 1993. He joined University of Rochester in July 2013. Thakur wrote a research monograph Function Field Arithmetic.[5][6] Thakur has been serving on the editorial boards of Journal of Number Theory, International Journal of Number Theory, and P-adic Numbers,[7] Ultrametric Analysis and Applications. Thakur is a founding member of-and for 15 years a participant in-the NSF-funded Southwest Center for Arithmetic Geometry and the Arizona Winter School.[8]

He was elected as a member of the 2017 class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to the arithmetic of function fields, exposition, and service to the mathematical community".[9]

Work[edit]

His main work has been in number theory, where he has been instrumental in developing various aspects of function field arithmetic and arithmetic geometry.[10][11]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Home". math.rochester.edu.
  2. ^ "Dinesh S. Thakur". Archived from the original on 5 November 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
  3. ^ "Harvard Mathematics Department : Dissertations". www.math.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 21 June 2013.
  4. ^ Dinesh Thakur at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ Thakur, Dinesh S. (2004). Function Field Arithmetic. World Scientific. ISBN 9789812388391; pbk., 368 pages{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  6. ^ Gouvêa, Fernando Q. (5 February 2005). "Review of Function Field Arithmetic by Dinesh S. Thakur". MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.
  7. ^ "P-Adic Numbers, Ultrametric Analysis and Applications".
  8. ^ "Southwest Center for Arithmetic Geometry: About the Southwest Center".
  9. ^ 2017 Class of the Fellows of the AMS, American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2016-11-06.
  10. ^ "Dinesh S. Thakur's Papers". math.arizona.edu. Archived from the original on 5 August 2008.
  11. ^ "Noncommutative Geometry: Dinesh Thakur's remarkable recursion formla". 18 January 2009.

External links[edit]

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