10 Facts About Barry Mazur

Barry Charles Mazur is an American mathematician and the Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University.

Barry Mazur was nonetheless accepted for graduate studies at Princeton University, from where he received his Ph.

Barry Mazur is the Gerhard Gade University Professor and a Senior Fellow at Harvard.

Barry Mazur is the brother of Joseph Mazur and the father of Alexander J Mazur.

Barry Mazur discovered the Mazur manifold and the Mazur swindle.

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Barry Mazur's torsion theorem, which gives a complete list of the possible torsion subgroups of elliptic curves over the rational numbers, is a deep and important result in the arithmetic of elliptic curves.

Barry Mazur expanded his thoughts in the 2003 book Imagining Numbers and Circles Disturbed, a collection of essays on mathematics and narrative that he edited with writer Apostolos Doxiadis.

Barry Mazur was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1978.

Barry Mazur was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2001, and in 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Barry Mazur has received the Veblen Prize in geometry, the Cole Prize in number theory, the Chauvenet Prize for exposition, and the Steele Prize for seminal contribution to research from the American Mathematical Society.