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Tadeusz Iwaniec

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Tadeusz Iwaniec
Born (1947-10-09) October 9, 1947 (age 77)
Elbląg, Poland
CitizenshipUnited States
Scientific career
FieldsMathematician
InstitutionsSyracuse University

Tadeusz Iwaniec (born October 9, 1947 in Elbląg) is a Polish-American mathematician, and since 1996 John Raymond French Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Syracuse University.[1]

He and mathematician Henryk Iwaniec are twin brothers.

Awards and honors

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Iwaniec was given the Prize of the President of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 1980, the Alfred Jurzykowski Award in Mathematics in 1997, the Prix 2001 Institut Henri-Poincaré Gauthier-Villars,[1] and the 2009 Sierpinski Medal of the Polish Mathematical Society and Warsaw University.[2] In 1998 he was elected as a foreign member of the Academia di Scienze Fisiche e Matematiche, Italy [1] and in 2012 as a foreign member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Biography of Tadeusz Iwaniec, Mathematics Department, Syracuse University. Retrieved 2010-01-22.
  2. ^ SU math professor gets international honor, Syracuse Post-Standard, March 26, 2009.
  3. ^ New Members. Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. Accessed May 24, 2012.