1. Jeff Cheeger was born on December 1,1943 and is an American mathematician and Silver Professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University.
10 Facts About Jeff Cheeger
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Jeff Cheeger is a Silver Professor at the Courant Institute at New York University where he has worked since 1993.
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Jeff Cheeger has had a number of visiting positions in Brazil, at the Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute.
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Jeff Cheeger has supervised at least 13 doctoral theses and three postdoctoral fellows.
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Jeff Cheeger has served as a member of several American Mathematical Society committees and National Science Foundation panels.
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Jeff Cheeger delivered invited addresses at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1974 and in 1986.
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In 1998 Jeff Cheeger was elected a foreign member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Jeff Cheeger was elected a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1997.
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Jeff Cheeger has discovered many of the deepest results in Riemannian geometry, such as estimates for the spectrum of the Laplace-Beltrami operator, and the identity of the analytic and geometric definitions of torsion, and has led to the solution of problems in topology, graph theory, number theory, and Markov processes.
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Jeff Cheeger received the fourteenth Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry from the American Mathematical Society in 2001.