Dinesh Thakur (mathematician)
| Dinesh Thakur | |
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| Born | 1961 India |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Rochester |
| Alma mater | Harvard University University of Bombay |
| Doctoral advisor | John Tate |
Dinesh Thakur is a mathematician and a professor of mathematics at University of Rochester.[1] Before moving to Rochester, Thakur was a professor at University of Arizona.[2] His main research interest is number theory.
Early life
Thakur was born in Mumbai, India. He attended Balmohan Vidyamandir School in Bombay. He completed his undergraduate studies at Ruia College, University of Bombay. He got his Ph.D in 1987 at Harvard University[3] under the guidance of Professor John Tate.[4]
Career
Thakur has spent three and half years at Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton and three years at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay. He held positions at University of Minnesota and University of Michigan. He moved to University of Arizona in 1993. He joined University of Rochester in July 2013. Thakur wrote a research monograph Function Field Arithmetic. Thakur has been serving on the editorial boards of Journal of Number Theory, International Journal of Number Theory, and P-adic Numbers,[5] Ultrametric Analysis and Applications. Thakur is a founding member of-and for 15 years a participant in-the NSF-funded Southwest Center for Arithmetic Geometry and the Arizona Winter School.[6]
Work
His main work has been in number theory, where he has been instrumental in developing various aspects of function field arithmetic and arithmetic geometry.[7][8]
References
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- Home Page at University of Rochester
- Function Field Arithmetic
- Mathematics Genealogy
- Rochester Faculty
- List of publications
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- ↑ http://www.math.rochester.edu/
- ↑ http://math.arizona.edu/~thakur/
- ↑ http://www.math.harvard.edu/dissertations/
- ↑ Dinesh Thakur at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ http://swc.math.arizona.edu/misc/aboutSWC/index.html
- ↑ [2]
- ↑ http://noncommutativegeometry.blogspot.com/2009/01/dinesh-thakurs-remarkable-recursion.html
