Sergiu Klainerman | |
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Born | |
Nationality | Romanian American |
Alma mater | University of Bucharest New York University |
Awards | Bôcher Prize (1999)[1] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of California, Berkeley New York University Princeton University |
Thesis | Global Existence for Nonlinear Wave Equations (1978) |
Doctoral advisors | Fritz John Louis Nirenberg |
Doctoral students | Gustavo Ponce |
Sergiu Klainerman (born May 13, 1950) is a mathematician known for his contributions to the study of hyperbolic differential equations and general relativity. He is currently the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University, where he has been teaching since 1987.