Charles Fefferman

Charles Louis Fefferman ( born April 18, 1949 in Washington, DC ) is an American mathematician at Princeton University. 1978 Fields Medal he was awarded.

Life and work

Fefferman was a child prodigy who mastered supposedly already at the age of 12 years, the infinitesimal and visited very young, the University of Maryland, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1966 with honors. In 1969 he received his doctorate from Princeton University with Elias Stein with the work Inequalities for Strongly Regular Convolution Operators on convolution operators.

At the age of 22 he got in 1971 a position as full professor at the University of Chicago and is so far the youngest full professor of all time in the United States. He taught at Princeton in 1969. At 24, he returned in 1973 to a professorship back to Princeton, where he is Herbert Jones Professor since 1984.

Fefferman worked in the field of the theory of functions of several variables (eg, Bergman kernels ), partial differential equations, singular integrals, Fourier analysis ( convergence behavior of Fourier series in n-dimensional Euclidean space and on the torus ) and functional analysis (eg distributions spaces ).

In 1972 he proved with Elias Stone duality of the introduced by Louis Nirenberg and Fritz John BMO space of functions on the real Hardy space.

In 1971 he was awarded the Salem Prize. In 1976 he received the Alan T. Waterman Award, and in 1978 the Fields Medal for his work in the field of analysis. In 1992 he received the Bergman price. In 2008 he was awarded the Bôcher Memorial Prize. In 1974 he gave a plenary lecture at the ICM in Vancouver ( Recent Progress in Classical Fourier Analysis).

In 1979 Fefferman was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Writings

• With C. Robin Graham: The ambient metric, Princeton University Press 2012