John Friedlander

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name = John Benjamin Friedlander


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fields = Mathematician
workplaces = Institute for Advanced Study
MIT
University of Toronto
alma_mater = Penn State
doctoral_advisor = Sarvadaman Chowla
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doctoral_students = Cem Yıldırım
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known_for = Analytic number theory
Bombieri–Friedlander–Iwaniec theorem
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John Benjamin Friedlander is a Canadian mathematician specializing in analytic number theory. He works at the University of Toronto. He completed his undergraduate studies in Canada (B.Sc. U. Toronto, 1965), then earned his doctorate in the U.S. (Penn State, 1972) under Sarvadaman Chowla. After a brief stint at MIT Friedlander returned to Toronto, where he has been a faculty member since 1977. [ [http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~csms/people/friedlander.html Friedlander bio at U. of Toronto website] ]

In 1997, in joint work with Henryk Iwaniec, Friedlander proved that infinitely many prime numbers can be obtained as the sum of a square and fourth power. [cite journal|last = Friedlander|first = John|coauthors = Iwaniec, Henryk|title = The polynomial "X"² + "Y"⁴ captures its primes|journal = Annals of Mathematics|volume = 148|date = 1998|pages = 945–1040|url = http://www.emis.ams.org/journals/Annals/148_3/fried1.pdf|doi = 10.2307/121034] Friedlander and Iwaniec improved Enrico Bombieri's "asymptotic sieve" technique to construct their proof. [ [http://www.ams.org/ams/press/prime1.html International Team Shows that Primes Can Be Found in Surprising Places] ]

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