14 Facts About Leonard Gross

Leonard Gross was born on February 24,1931 and is an American mathematician and Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Cornell University.

Leonard Gross graduated from James Madison High School in December 1948.

Leonard Gross was awarded an Emil Schweinberg scholarship that enabled him to attend college.

Leonard Gross studied at City College of New York for one term and then studied electrical engineering at Cooper Union for two years.

Leonard Gross then transferred to the University of Chicago, where he obtained a master's degree in physics and mathematics and a Ph.

Leonard Gross taught at Yale University and was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship in 1959.

Leonard Gross joined the faculty of the mathematics department of Cornell University in 1960.

Leonard Gross was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in 1959 and in 1983 and has held other visiting positions.

Leonard Gross serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Functional Analysis, and Potential Analysis.

Leonard Gross was one of the initiators of the study of logarithmic Sobolev inequalities, which he discovered in 1967 for his work in constructive quantum field theory and published later in two foundational papers in which he established these inequalities for the Bosonic and Fermionic cases.

The inequalities were named by Leonard Gross, who established the inequalities in dimension-independent form, a key feature needed especially in the context of applications to infinite-dimensional settings such as for quantum field theories.

Leonard Gross has done important work in the study of loop groups, for example proving the Leonard Gross ergodicity theorem for the pinned Wiener measure under the action of the smooth loop group.

Leonard Gross was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004 and named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in the inaugural class of 2013.

Leonard Gross was recipient of the Humboldt Prize in 1996.