{"id":8888,"date":"2023-03-10T13:32:33","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T18:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crmath.ca\/?page_id=8888"},"modified":"2023-03-10T13:32:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T18:32:33","slug":"2002-crm-fields-prize-john-b-friedlander","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.crmath.ca\/en\/prizes-and-honours\/crm-fields-pims-prize\/2002-crm-fields-prize-john-b-friedlander\/","title":{"rendered":"2002 CRM-Fields Prize John B. Friedlander"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2002 CRM-Fields Prize awarded to John B. Friedlander<\/span><\/h1>\n

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The winner of the 2002 CRM-Fields Prize is John B. Friedlander of the University of Toronto.<\/p>\n

Professor Friedlander is one of the world’s foremost analytic number theorists, and is a recognized leader in the theory of prime numbers and L-functions. <\/span><\/p>\n

He received his B.Sc. from the University of Toronto in 1965, an M.A. from the University of Waterloo in 1966, and a Ph.D. from Penn State in 1972. <\/span><\/p>\n

He was a lecturer at M.I.T. in 1974-76, and has been on the faculty of the University of Toronto since 1977, where he served as Chair during 1987-91. He has also spent several years at the Institute for Advanced Study where he has collaborated with E.Bombieri and many others. Friedlander is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1988), was an invited lecturer at the 1994 ICM in Zurich and delivered the CMS Jeffery-Williams Lecture in 1999. He has contributed significantly to mathematics in other ways, especially in Canada, through his role at NSERC (Mathematics GSC, 1991-94), as Mathematics Convenor of the Royal Society of Canada (1990-93), and as a Council member (1989-95) and Scientific Advisory Panel member (1996-2000) of the Fields Institute. He has served on the Editorial Board of the Canadian Journal of Mathematics and the Canadian Mathematics Bulletin for the past 4 years.<\/span><\/p>\n

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