Shlomo Zvi Sternberg was an American mathematician known for his work in geometry, particularly symplectic geometry and Lie theory.
11 Facts About Shlomo Sternberg
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Shlomo Sternberg was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 1974 and an honorary doctorate by the University of Mannheim in 1991.
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Shlomo Sternberg delivered the AMS Colloquium Lecture in 1990 and the Hebrew University's Albert Einstein Memorial Lecture in 2006.
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Shlomo Sternberg was elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1969, of the National Academy of Sciences in 1986, of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences In 1999, and of the American Philosophical Society in 2010.
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Shlomo Sternberg proved generalizations of the Birkhoff canonical form theorems for volume preserving mappings in n-dimensions and symplectic mappings, all in the smooth case.
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Shlomo Sternberg provided contributions to the topic of Lie group actions on symplectic manifolds, in particular involving various aspects of the theory of symplectic reduction.
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Shlomo Sternberg's "Lectures on Differential Geometry" is a popular standard textbook for upper-level undergraduate courses on differential manifolds, the calculus of variations, Lie theory and the geometry of G-structures.
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Shlomo Sternberg published the more recent "Curvature in mathematics and physics".
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Shlomo Sternberg worked with Yuval Ne'eman on supersymmetry in elementary particle physics, exploring from this perspective the Higgs mechanism, the method of spontaneous symmetry breaking and a unified approach to the theory of quarks and leptons.
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Shlomo Sternberg died in the old city of Jerusalem, on August 23,2024.
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Shlomo Sternberg's funeral took place at Eretz Hachayim Cemetery in Beit Shemesh Israel on August 25,2024.