Louis Nirenberg
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 5 years ago |
| Date of birth | February 28,1925 |
| Zodiac sign | Pisces |
| Born | Hamilton |
| Canada | |
| Notable students | Djairo Guedes de Figueiredo |
| Sergiu Klainerman | |
| Martin Schechter | |
| Peter B. Gilkey | |
| Walter Craig | |
| Known for | Partial differential equation |
| Job | Mathematician |
| Education | Baron Byng High School |
| New York University | |
| Books | Lectures on Differential Equations and Differential Geometry |
| Remarks on Strongly Elliptic Partial Differential Equations | |
| Functional Analysis: Lectures Given at New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences In 1960-1961 | |
| Topics in Nonlinear Functional Analysis, 1973-1974 | |
| Lectures on Linear Partial Differential Equations | |
| Awards | Abel Prize |
| Leroy P. Steele Prize | |
| Bôcher Memorial Prize | |
| Chern Medal | |
| National Medal of Science for Mathematics and Computer Science | |
| Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada | |
| Crafoord Prize in Astronomy and Mathematics | |
| Died | New York |
| New York | |
| United States | |
| Field | Mathematics |
| Thesi | The determination of a closed convex surface having given line elements |
| Date of died | January 26,2020 |
| Notable student | Haïm Brezis |
| Sergiu Klainerman | |
| YanYan Li | |
| Date of Reg. | |
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| ID | 493989 |
Louis Nirenberg Life story
Louis Nirenberg was a Canadian-American mathematician, considered one of the most outstanding mathematicians of the 20th century. Nearly all of his work was in the field of partial differential equations.
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