Benedict Gross

Benedict Gross ( born June 22, 1950 in South Orange, New Jersey) is an American mathematician who works in arithmetic algebraic geometry and number theory.

Gross studied at Harvard (Bachelor 1971) and Oxford (Master 1974), and in 1978 received his doctorate at Harvard University with John T. Tate. 1978 to 1982 he was assistant professor at Princeton (1980 Maitre of Conferences at the University of Paris VII ), 1982-1985 assistant professor at Brown University. Since 1985 he is a professor at Harvard, where he was from 2003 to 2007 Dean of Harvard College.

Gross is best known for his work with Don Zagier from the 1980s through the L-functions of elliptic curves and the associated solution of the general Gauss class number problem.

In 1994 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences of the United States. In 1987 he received the Cole prize in number theory. 1980 to 1983 he was a Sloan Fellow, 1986-1991 MacArthur Fellow. In 1986 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berkeley ( Heights and L-series ). He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

His doctoral include Henri Darmon and Noam Elkies.