Charles Fefferman

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Charles Louis Fefferman (born April 18, 1949) is a renowned American mathematician at Princeton University.

A child prodigy, Fefferman had entered college by twelve and had written his first scientific paper by the age of 15 in German. After receiving his bachelor's degrees in physics and mathematics at the age of 17 from the University of Maryland and a PhD in mathematics at 20 from Princeton University under Elias Stein, Fefferman received full professorship at the University of Chicago at the age of 22. This made him the youngest full professor ever appointed in the United States. At 24, he returned to Princeton to assume a full professorship there — a position he still holds. He won the Alan T. Waterman Award in 1976 and the Fields medal in 1978 for his work in mathematical analysis. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1979.

His early work included a study of the asymptotics of the Bergman kernel off the boundaries of pseudoconvex domains in <math>\mathbb C^n</math>.

[edit] Family

Charles Fefferman has two daughters, Nina and Lainie. Lainie Fefferman teaches math at Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn Heights, New York, is a composer, and holds a degree in music from Yale University. She has an interest in the Middle Eastern music [1]. Nina is a biologist who does research concerning the more theoretical aspects of the field.[2]