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Israeli mathematician
Elon Lindenstrauss (Hebrew: אילון לינדנשטראוס, born August 1, ) is an Israeli mathematician, and a winner of the Fields Medal.[1][2]
Since , he has been a professor at Princeton University.
In , he was appointed as a Professor at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics at the Hebrew University. In he was appointed a permanent faculty member in the School of Mathematics of the Institute for Advanced Study.[3]
Biography
Lindenstrauss was born into an Israeli-Jewish family with German Jewish origins, the son of the mathematician Joram Lindenstrauss, the namesake of the Johnson–Lindenstrauss lemma, and computer scientist Naomi Lindenstrauss, both professors at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
His sister Ayelet Lindenstrauss is also a mathematician.
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He attended the Hebrew University Secondary School. In he was awarded a bronze medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad. He enlisted to the IDF's Talpi