Sergiu Klainerman
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Sergiu Klainerman is a mathematician
Mathematician
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 known for his contributions to the study of hyperbolic differential equations and general relativity
General relativity
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. He is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Princeton University
Princeton University
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, a position he held since 1987. From 1980 to 1987 he was a faculty member at New York University
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Klainerman is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (elected 2005), a foreign member of the French Academy of Sciences
French Academy of Sciences
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 (elected 2002) and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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 (elected 1996).

He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1991 and Guggenheim Fellow in 1997.
Klainerman was awarded the Bôcher Prize by the American Mathematical Society in 1999 "for his contributions to nonlinear hyperbolic equations". He is currently a co-Editor-in-Chief of Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS
Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS
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Selected publications

  • Klainerman, Sergiu, Uniform decay estimates and the Lorentz invariance of the classical wave equation. Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics
    Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics
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    , vol. 38 (1985), no. 3, pp. 321-332
  • Klainerman, Sergiu, The null condition and global existence to nonlinear wave equations. Nonlinear systems of partial differential equations in applied mathematics, Part 1 (Santa Fe, N.M., 1984), pp. 293-326, Lectures in Appl. Math., 23, American Mathematical Society
    American Mathematical Society
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    , Providence, RI, 1986. ISBN 0-8218-1125-8
  • Klainerman, Sergiu; Machedon, Matei, Space-time estimates for null forms and the local existence theorem, Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics
    Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics
    Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics is a scientific journal which is associated with the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. It publishes original research originating from or solicited by the institute, typically in the fields of applied mathematics, mathematical analysis, or...

    , vol. 46 (1993), no. 9, pp. 1221-1268
  • Christodoulou, Demetrios
    Demetrios Christodoulou
    Demetrios Christodoulou is a Greek mathematician and physicist, who first became well known for his proof, together with Sergiu Klainerman, of the nonlinear stability of the Minkowski spacetime...

    ; Klainerman, Sergiu, The global nonlinear stability of the Minkowski space. Princeton Mathematical Series, 41. Princeton University Press
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    , Princeton, NJ, 1993. ISBN 0-691-08777-6
  • Klainerman, Sergiu; Machedon, Matei, Smoothing estimates for null forms and applications. A celebration of John F. Nash, Jr., Duke Mathematical Journal
    Duke Mathematical Journal
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    ., vol. 81 (1995), no. 1, pp. 99-133

External links

  • Sergiu Klainerman personal webpage, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University
    Princeton University
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  • Sergiu Klainerman, Mathematics Genealogy Project
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