- George Lusztig
George (Gheorghe) Lusztig (born 1946) is a
Romania n-born Americanmathematician . He is aNorbert Wiener Professor at the Department of Mathematics,MIT .Born in
Timişoara , he did his undergraduate studies at theUniversity of Bucharest . He left Romania for theUnited States , where he went to work for two years withMichael Atiyah at theInstitute for Advanced Study inPrinceton, New Jersey . His early work was on theindex theory ofelliptic operator s, which was the topic of his 1971 doctorate atPrinceton University , under the direction of William Browder.He worked for several years at the
University of Warwick : Research Fellow, 1971-72; Lecturer in Mathematics, 1972-74; Professor of Mathematics, 1974-78. In 1978, he accepted a chair at MIT.He is best known for his work on
representation theory , in particular foralgebraic group s. This has included fundamental new concepts, including theDeligne-Lusztig variety and theKazhdan-Lusztig polynomial s.He won the
Cole Prize (Algebra ) in 1985. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992. He received The Leroy Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Mathematics in 2008.External links
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*Roger W. Carter, [http://projecteuclid.org/Dienst/UI/1.0/Summarize/euclid.nmj/1150810003 "A survey of the work of George Lusztig"] ,Nagoya Mathematical Journal 182 (2006), 1–45.
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