Joseph Bernstein - Biography

Joseph Bernstein (sometimes spelled I. N. Bernshtein or Iosif Naumovič Bernštejn, , Иосиф Наумович Бернштейн, born April 18, 1945) is an Israeli mathematician working at Tel Aviv University. He works in algebraic geometry, representation theory, and number theory.

Biography

Bernstein received his Ph.D. in 1972 under Israel Gelfand at Moscow State University and was elected to the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2002 and was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2004.

Awards

In 2004, Bernstein was awarded the Israel Prize for mathematics.

Publications

• Publication list
• Some pdf files of papers by Bernstein including Algebraic theory of D-modules and his notes on Meromorphic continuation of Eisenstein series
• Beilinson, A. A.; Bernstein, J.; Deligne, P. Faisceaux pervers. (Perverse sheaves) Analysis and topology on singular spaces, I (Luminy, 1981), 5-171, Astérisque, 100, Soc. Math. France, Paris, 1982.

See also

• Bernstein–Sato polynomial
• BGG resolution

External links

• Bernstein's home page