László Lempert (4 June 1952, in Budapest) is a Hungarian-American mathematician, working in several complex variables and complex geometry.[1] He proved that the Carathéodory and Kobayashi distances agree on convex domains.[2] He further proved that a compact, strictly pseudoconvex real analytic hypersurface can be embedded into the unit sphere of a Hilbert space.
László Lempert | |
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| Born | |
| Alma mater | Doctorate 1975, Eötvös Loránd University |
| Known for | Several complex variables, Complex geometry |
| Awards | Stefan Bergman Prize |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | |
| Doctoral advisor | Miklós Simonovits |
Life
editLempert graduated from the Eötvös Loránd University in 1975. He was at the Analysis Department of the same university (1977–1988) and is a professor of Purdue University since 1988. He was a visiting research fellow at the Université de Paris VII (1979–1980), visiting lecturer at the Princeton University (1984–1985), and visiting professor at the Eötvös Loránd University (1994–1995).
Degrees, awards
editLempert received the Candidate of the mathematical sciences degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1984. He was an invited session speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians, in Berkeley, California, 1986. He won the Stefan Bergman Prize in 2001. He was elected an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2004). In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[3]
References
edit- ^ "Laszlo Lempert".
- ^ Lempert, Laszlo (1981). "La métrique de Kobayashi et la représentation des domaines sur la boule". Bulletin de la Société Mathématique de France. 79: 427–474. doi:10.24033/bsmf.1948.
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-27.
External links
edit- Lempert and Webster receive 2001 Bergman Prize, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 48(2001), 998–999.
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