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George (Gheorghe) Lusztig (born 1946) is a Romania
Romania

Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
n-born American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 mathematician
Mathematician

A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study and/or research is the field of mathematics....
. He is a Norbert Wiener
Norbert Wiener

Norbert Wiener was an United States theoretical and applied math mathematician.Wiener was a pioneer in the study of stochastic processes and noise processes, contributing work relevant to electronic engineering, electronic communication, and control systems....
 Professor at the Department of Mathematics
MIT Mathematics Department

The Department of Mathematics at the MIT is one of the leading mathematics departments in the USAand the world.The current faculty of around 50 includes Abel Prize winner Isadore Singer and famous numerical analyst Gilbert Strang....
, MIT.

Born in Timisoara
Timisoara

Timi?oara , also known as "The City of Athletes", is a city in the Banat region of western Romania. It is the capital of Timis County.With 307,347 inhabitants, Timisoara is a large economic and cultural center in Banat in the west of the country....
, he did his undergraduate studies at the University of Bucharest
University of Bucharest

The University of Bucharest , in Romania, is a university founded in 1864 by decree of Prince Alexander John Cuza to convert the former Saint Sava College into the current University of Bucharest....
. He left Romania for the United States
United States

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, where he went to work for two years with Michael Atiyah
Michael Atiyah

Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, Order of Merit , Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh is a United Kingdom mathematician, and one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century....
 at the Institute for Advanced Study
Institute for Advanced Study

The Institute for Advanced Study, located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States, is a center for theoretical research. The Institute is perhaps best known as the academic home of Albert Einstein, John von Neumann, and Kurt G?del, after their immigration to the United States....
 in Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton, New Jersey

Princeton, New Jersey is located in Mercer County, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States. Princeton University has been sited in the town since 1756....
. His early work was on the index theory of elliptic operator
Elliptic operator

In mathematics, an elliptic operator is one of the major types of differential operator. It can be defined on spaces of complex-valued functions, or some more general function-like objects....
s, which was the topic of his 1971 doctorate at Princeton University
Princeton University

Princeton University is a private university university located in Princeton, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League and has the largest per-student Financial endowment in the world....
, under the direction of William Browder
William Browder (mathematician)

William Browder is a United States mathematician, specializing in algebraic topology, differential topology and differential geometry. Son of Earl Browder, brother of Felix Browder....
.

He worked for several years at the University of Warwick
University of Warwick

The University of Warwick is a British campus university located on the outskirts of Coventry, West Midlands , England and is University of Warwick#Academic standards as one of the country's leading universities....
: Research Fellow, 1971-72; Lecturer in Mathematics, 1972-74; Professor of Mathematics, 1974-78.






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George (Gheorghe) Lusztig (born 1946) is a Romania
Romania

Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
n-born American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 mathematician
Mathematician

A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study and/or research is the field of mathematics....
. He is a Norbert Wiener
Norbert Wiener

Norbert Wiener was an United States theoretical and applied math mathematician.Wiener was a pioneer in the study of stochastic processes and noise processes, contributing work relevant to electronic engineering, electronic communication, and control systems....
 Professor at the Department of Mathematics
MIT Mathematics Department

The Department of Mathematics at the MIT is one of the leading mathematics departments in the USAand the world.The current faculty of around 50 includes Abel Prize winner Isadore Singer and famous numerical analyst Gilbert Strang....
, MIT.

Born in Timisoara
Timisoara

Timi?oara , also known as "The City of Athletes", is a city in the Banat region of western Romania. It is the capital of Timis County.With 307,347 inhabitants, Timisoara is a large economic and cultural center in Banat in the west of the country....
, he did his undergraduate studies at the University of Bucharest
University of Bucharest

The University of Bucharest , in Romania, is a university founded in 1864 by decree of Prince Alexander John Cuza to convert the former Saint Sava College into the current University of Bucharest....
. He left Romania for the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, where he went to work for two years with Michael Atiyah
Michael Atiyah

Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, Order of Merit , Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh is a United Kingdom mathematician, and one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century....
 at the Institute for Advanced Study
Institute for Advanced Study

The Institute for Advanced Study, located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States, is a center for theoretical research. The Institute is perhaps best known as the academic home of Albert Einstein, John von Neumann, and Kurt G?del, after their immigration to the United States....
 in Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton, New Jersey

Princeton, New Jersey is located in Mercer County, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States. Princeton University has been sited in the town since 1756....
. His early work was on the index theory of elliptic operator
Elliptic operator

In mathematics, an elliptic operator is one of the major types of differential operator. It can be defined on spaces of complex-valued functions, or some more general function-like objects....
s, which was the topic of his 1971 doctorate at Princeton University
Princeton University

Princeton University is a private university university located in Princeton, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League and has the largest per-student Financial endowment in the world....
, under the direction of William Browder
William Browder (mathematician)

William Browder is a United States mathematician, specializing in algebraic topology, differential topology and differential geometry. Son of Earl Browder, brother of Felix Browder....
.

He worked for several years at the University of Warwick
University of Warwick

The University of Warwick is a British campus university located on the outskirts of Coventry, West Midlands , England and is University of Warwick#Academic standards as one of the country's leading universities....
: Research Fellow, 1971-72; Lecturer in Mathematics, 1972-74; Professor of Mathematics, 1974-78. In 1978, he accepted a chair at MIT.

He is best known for his work on representation theory
Representation theory

Representation theory is a branch of mathematics that studies abstract algebra algebraic structures by representing their element as linear transformations of vector spaces....
, in particular for algebraic group
Algebraic group

In algebraic geometry, an algebraic group is a group that is an algebraic variety, such that the multiplication and inverse are given by regular functions on the variety....
s. This has included fundamental new concepts, including the Deligne-Lusztig variety and the Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials.

He won the Cole Prize
Cole Prize

The Frank Nelson Cole Prize, or Cole Prize for short, is one of two prizes awarded to mathematicians by the American Mathematical Society, one for an outstanding contribution to algebra, and the other for an outstanding contribution to number theory....
 (Algebra
Algebra

Algebra is a branch of mathematics concerning the study of structure , relation , and quantity. Together with geometry, mathematical analysis, combinatorics, and number theory, algebra is one of the main branches of mathematics....
) in 1985. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences
United States National Academy of Sciences

The National Academy of Sciences is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as "advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine."...
 in 1992. He received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Mathematics in 2008.

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  • Roger W. Carter
    Roger Carter (mathematician)

    Roger W. Carter is an emeritus professor at University of Warwick. He defined Carter subgroups and wrote the standard reference group of Lie type....
    , , Nagoya Mathematical Journal 182 (2006), 1–45.