15 Facts About Hillel Furstenberg

Hillel "Harry" Furstenberg is a German-born American-Israeli mathematician and professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Hillel Furstenberg is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and US National Academy of Sciences and a laureate of the Abel Prize and the Wolf Prize in Mathematics.

Hillel Furstenberg is known for his application of probability theory and ergodic theory methods to other areas of mathematics, including number theory and Lie groups.

Hillel Furstenberg attended Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy and then Yeshiva University, where he concluded his BA and MSc studies at the age of 20 in 1955.

Hillel Furstenberg published several papers as an undergraduate, including "Note on one type of indeterminate form" and "On the infinitude of primes".

Hillel Furstenberg pursued his doctorate at Princeton University under the supervision of Salomon Bochner.

Hillel Furstenberg got his first job as an assistant professor in 1961 at the University of Minnesota.

Hillel Furstenberg was promoted to full professor at Minnesota but moved to Israel in 1965 to join at Hebrew University's Einstein Institute of Mathematics.

Hillel Furstenberg serves as an Advisory Committee member of The Center for Advanced Studies in Mathematics at Ben Gurion University of the Negev.

In 1993, Hillel Furstenberg won the Israel Prize and in 2007, the Wolf Prize in mathematics.

Hillel Furstenberg is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the US National Academy of Sciences.

Hillel Furstenberg gained attention at an early stage in his career for producing an innovative topological proof of the infinitude of prime numbers in 1955.

Hillel Furstenberg used methods from ergodic theory to prove a celebrated result by Endre Szemeredi, which states that any subset of integers with positive upper density contains arbitrarily large arithmetic progressions.

Hillel Furstenberg proved unique ergodicity of horocycle flows on compact hyperbolic Riemann surfaces in the early 1970s.

In 1958, Hillel Furstenberg married Rochelle Cohen, a journalist and literary critic.