Ehud Hrushovski

Ehud Hrushovski (Hebrew אהוד הרושובסקי; * 1959) is an Israeli mathematician who deals with mathematical logic (model theory).

Hrushovskis father Benjamin Harshav was a professor of literature at Yale University and the University of Tel Aviv. Hrushovski doctorate in 1986 at Leo Harrington at the University of California, Berkeley ( Contributions to stable model theory ). He was a professor at Harvard University and is currently a professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has been a visiting professor at Yale University.

Hrushovski deals with model theory and its applications in geometry and number theory ( Geometric model theory). With Boris Zilber, he led a Zariski geometries. He proved the Mordell -Lang conjecture for function fields in arbitrary characteristic. The assumption (named after Serge Lang and Louis Mordell ) generalizes the Mordell conjecture and Manin - Mumford conjecture and finiteness makes statements about the intersection of a subvariety of a semi - abelian variety with a subset of finite rank.

He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and since 2008 the Israeli Academy of Sciences. He was invited speaker ( plenary lecture ) at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM ) 1998 in Berlin (Geometric Model Theory) and 1990 in Kyoto ( Categorical structures).

He twice received the Karp Prize in 1998 for work on the Mordell -Lang conjecture in 1993 for contributions to geometric stability theory. In 1994 he received the Erdös Award of the Israeli Mathematical Society.