Alexander Lubotzky
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| Date of birth | 28 June 1956 |
| Place of birth | Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Knessets | 14 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 1996–1999 | The Third Way |
| Alexander Lubotzky | |
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| Born |
28 June 1956 Tel Aviv |
| Residence | Israel |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Hebrew University, Stanford, University of Chicago, Columbia, Yale, Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NYU, ETH Zurich |
| Alma mater | Bar Ilan University |
| Thesis | Pro-finite groups and the congruence subgroup problem (1979) |
| Doctoral advisor | Hillel Furstenberg |
| Known for | Geometric group theory, the study of lattices in Lie groups, representation theory of discrete groups and Kazhdan's property (T), the study of subgroup growth and applications of group theory to combinatorics and computer science (expander graphs) and error correcting codes |
| Notable awards | Landau Award (1979), Bergman Memorial Prize (1980-1), Erdős Prize (1990), Sunyer i Balaguer Prize (1992,2002), Rothschild Prize (2002), ISI highly cited researcher (2003), Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2005), Honorary degree from the University of Chicago (2006), The Rector’s Prize of the Hebrew University (2007), European Research Council (ERC) advanced grant (2008), member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (2014), European Research Council (ERC) advanced grant (2015) |
| Spouse | Yardenna Lubotzky |
| Children | six living offspring |
Professor Alexander Lubotzky (Hebrew: אלכסנדר לובוצקי, born 28 June 1956) is an Israeli mathematician and former politician. A former head of the Mathematics Institute at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he served as a member of the Knesset for The Third Way party between 1996 and 1999.
Born in Tel Aviv, Lubotzky studied mathematics at Bar-Ilan University, gaining a BA and PhD. He worked as a professor of mathematics at the Hebrew University, becoming head of the department. He has been a visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Stanford, and the University of Chicago, with visits at Columbia, Yale, NYU and ETH Zurich.
Lubotzky holds a Maurice and Clara Weil Chair in mathematics at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is known for contributions to geometric group theory, the study of lattices in Lie groups, representation theory of discrete groups and Kazhdan's property (T), the study of subgroup growth and applications of group theory to combinatorics and computer science (expander graphs) and error correcting codes.
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