David Harbater

David Harbater ( born December 19, 1952 in New York City ) is an American mathematician who deals with algebra and algebraic geometry.

Life and work

Harbater attended Stuyvesant High School in New York, where he had attended summer courses at U.S. universities. From 1970 he studied at Harvard University. One of his fellow students was Richard Stallman. In 1974, he received his bachelor 's degree "summa cum laude" from Harvard and his master's degree in 1975 from Brandeis University. In 1978 he was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with Michael Artin received his doctorate ( Deformation Theory and the Fundamental Group in Algebraic Geometry ). He is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

1984 to 1987 he was a Sloan Fellow. In 1995 he received for his solution to the conjecture of Abhyankar with Michel Raynaud Cole Price in algebra. He deals with Galois theory in algebraic geometry, arithmetic algebraic geometry and inverse Galois theory and was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM ) 1994 ( Fundamental Groups of Curves in Characteristic). He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.