Shlomo Sternberg

Shlomo Zvi Sternberg is a leading mathematician, known for his work in geometry, particularly symplectic geometry and the differential geometry of G-structures.

Sternberg earned his Ph.D. in 1957 from Johns Hopkins University, where he wrote a dissertation on transformations under Aurel Wintner. He was a Guggenheim Fellow at Harvard University in 1974.One of his best known Ph.D. students is Victor Guillemin (1962), who has also become a leader in symplectic geometry. Sternberg has written several textbooks for undergraduate students as well as a number of monographs, some of which have been republished after several decades, an unusual distinction which indicates their importance in the field.

Following the publication of "The Bible Code" by journalist Michael Drosnin, which was based in part upon a paper by Rips et al. which appeared in "Statistical Science", Sternberg joined many other prominent mathematicians in debunking the notion that Drosnin's controversial claims are well founded in mathematics.

ee also

*Isadore Singer
*Symplectic manifold
*Symplectic topology

External links

* [http://www.math.harvard.edu/people/SternbergShlomo.html Sternberg's home page] at Harvard has links to a half dozen on-line books

References

Selected books:

:*cite book| author=Singer, I. M. & Sternberg, S. | title=The infinite groups of Lie and Cartan. Part I. The transitive groups | location=Cambridge, MA |publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press |year=1985 |id=OCLC 12880084:*cite book|author=Guillemin, Victor and Sternberg, Shlomo| title=Geometric asymptotics | location=Providence, RI |publisher=American Mathematical Society |year=1977| id=ISBN 0-8218-1514-8; reprinted in 1990 as an [http://www.ams.org/online%5Fbks/surv14/ on-line book] :*cite book| author=Sternberg, Shlomo |title= Lectures on differential geometry |location=New York |publisher=Chelsea |year=1983 |id=ISBN 0-8284-0316-3:*cite book| author=Bamberg, Paul and Sternberg, Shlomo |title=A Course of Mathematics for Students of Physics | location=Cambridge | publisher=Cambridge University Press | year=1988 | id=ISBN 0-521-40649-8 (vol 1), ISBN 0-521-40650-1 (vol 2):*cite book | author=Sternberg, Shlomo | title=Group theory and physics | location=Cambridge | publisher=Cambridge University Press | year=1994 |id=ISBN 0-521-24870-1:*cite book| author=Loomis, Lynn H. & Sternberg, Shlomo| title=Advanced Calculus |location=Boston|publisher=Jones and Bartlett Publishers International|year=1990|; text available on-line (58 MBytes) [http://www.math.harvard.edu/~shlomo/docs/Advanced_Calculus.pdf] .

Commentary on the so-called Bible codes:

:* [http://www.math.toronto.edu/~drorbn/Codes/Nations/ On the Witztum-Rips-Rosenberg Sample of Nations] , by Dror Bar-Natan, Brendan McKay, and Shlomo Sternberg:* [http://www.ams.org/notices/199708/review-allyn.pdf The Bible Code: A Book Review] by Allyn Jackson, followed by "Comments on the Bible Code" by Shlomo Sternberg, "Notices of the AMS" September 1997