1. Charles Louis Fefferman was born on April 18,1949 and is an American mathematician at Princeton University, where he is currently the Herbert E Jones, Jr.
13 Facts About Charles Fefferman
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Charles Fefferman was a child prodigy, entered the University of Maryland at age 14, and had written his first scientific paper by the age of 15.
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Charles Fefferman graduated with degrees in math and physics at 17, and earned his PhD in mathematics three years later from Princeton University, under Elias Stein.
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Charles Fefferman achieved a full professorship at the University of Chicago at the age of 22, making him the youngest full professor ever appointed in the United States.
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Charles Fefferman won the Alan T Waterman Award in 1976 and the Fields Medal in 1978 for his work in mathematical analysis, specifically convergence and divergence.
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Charles Fefferman was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1979.
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Charles Fefferman was appointed the Herbert Jones Professor at Princeton in 1984.
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Charles Fefferman contributed several innovations that revised the study of multidimensional complex analysis by finding fruitful generalisations of classical low-dimensional results.
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Charles Fefferman was a Plenary Speaker of the ICM in 1974 in Vancouver.
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Charles Fefferman has studied mathematical physics, harmonic analysis, fluid dynamics, neural networks, geometry, mathematical finance and spectral analysis, amongst others.
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Lainie Charles Fefferman is a composer, taught math at Saint Ann's School and holds a degree in music from Yale University as well as a Ph.
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Nina Charles Fefferman is a computational biologist residing at the University of Tennessee whose research is concerned with the application of mathematical models to complex biological systems.
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Charles Fefferman's brother, Robert Fefferman, is a mathematician and former Dean of the Physical Sciences Division at the University of Chicago.