John Friedlander

John Benjamin Friedlander ( born October 4, 1941 in Toronto ) is a Canadian mathematician who deals with analytic number theory.

Friedlander studied at the University of Toronto (Bachelor 1965) and the University of Waterloo ( Master's degree 1966). He received his doctorate in Sarvadaman Chowla at Pennsylvania State University (The Distribution of Power Residues in Algebraic Number Fields) 1972. 1974 to 1976 he was a lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and taught from 1977 at the University of Toronto. Since 2002 he has been there University professor. 1987 to 1991 he was faced with the mathematical faculty. He was repeatedly at the Institute for Advanced Study ( first from 1972 to 1974 as an assistant to Atle Selberg ).

1992/92 he was at MSRI. He is a founding Fellow of the Fields Institute.

He collaborated among others with Enrico Bombieri and Iwaniec Henryk. With Iwaniec he proved in 1997 (using of them refined asymptotic sieve of Bombieri ) that infinitely many prime numbers are represented as the sum of a square and a fourth power.

It also deals with number-theoretic applications in cryptography.

In 1999 he received the Canadian Jeffery -Williams Prize. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1988 ) and co-editor of the Canadian Journal of Mathematics. In 2002 he received the CRM -Fields - PIMS Prize. 2003 to 2005 he was Killam Fellow. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

In 1994 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM ) in Zurich ( Bounds for L- functions).

His doctoral counts Cem Yıldırım.