13 Facts About Harald Helfgott

Harald Andres Helfgott was born on 25 November 1977 and is a Peruvian mathematician working in number theory.

Harald Helfgott is best known for submitting a proof, now widely accepted but not yet fully published, of Goldbach's weak conjecture.

Harald Helfgott was born on 25 November 1977 in Lima, Peru.

Harald Helfgott graduated from Brandeis University in 1998.

Harald Helfgott was a post-doctoral Gibbs Assistant Professor at Yale University from 2003 to 2004.

Harald Helfgott was a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and then Reader at the University of Bristol from 2006 to 2011.

Harald Helfgott has been a researcher at the CNRS since 2010, initially as a charge de recherche premiere classe at the Ecole normale superieure before becoming a directeur de recherche deuxieme classe at the Institut Mathematique de Jussieu in 2014.

Harald Helfgott was an Alexander von Humboldt Professor at the University of Gottingen from 2015 to 2022.

In 2017 Harald Helfgott spotted a subtle error in the proof of the quasipolynomial time algorithm for the graph isomorphism problem that was announced by Laszlo Babai in 2015.

In 2008, Harald Helfgott was awarded the Leverhulme Mathematics Prize for his work on number theory, diophantine geometry and group theory.

In June 2010, Harald Helfgott received the Whitehead Prize by the London Mathematical Society for his contributions to number theory, including work on Mobius sums in two variables, integral points on elliptic curves, and for his work on growth and expansion of multiplication of sets in SL2.

In February 2011, Harald Helfgott was awarded the Adams Prize jointly with Tom Sanders.

Harald Helfgott was included in the 2019 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to analytic number theory, additive combinatorics and combinatorial group theory".