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David Kazhdan (), born Dmitry Aleksandrovich Kazhdan (; born 20 June 1946), is a and known for work in representation theory. Kazhdan is a 1990 MacArthur Fellow.


Biography
Kazhdan was born on 20 June 1946 in , . His father is Alexander Kazhdan. He earned a doctorate under Alexandre Kirillov in 1969 and was a member of 's school of mathematics. He is , and emigrated from the Soviet Union to take a position at Harvard University in 1975. He changed his name from Dmitri Aleksandrovich to David and became an around that time.

In 2002, he immigrated to Israel and is now a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as well as a professor emeritus at Harvard.

On October 6, 2013, Kazhdan was critically injured in a car accident while riding a bicycle in Jerusalem.

Kazhdan has four children. His son, , was general director of 's political party (now merged with ).


Research
He is known for collaboration with , , (on the Kazhdan–Lusztig conjecture on ), with (Kazhdan–Margulis theorem), with and S. J. Patterson on the representations of metaplectic groups. Kazhdan's property (T) is widely used in representation theory.

Kazhdan held a MacArthur Fellowship from 1990 to 1995. He was the doctoral advisor of Vladimir Voevodsky, a recipient of the , one of the highest awards in mathematics. Kazhdan has been a member of United States National Academy of Sciences since 1990, of the Israel Academy of Sciences since 2006, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2008. In 2012, he was awarded the , the country's highest academic honor, for mathematics and computer science. In 2020 he received the in Mathematics. Shaw Prize 2020


Selected publications
  • Quantum fields and strings: a course for mathematicians. Vol. 1, 2. Material from the Special Year on Quantum Field Theory held at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, 1996–1997. Edited by , , Daniel S. Freed, Lisa C. Jeffrey, David Kazhdan, John W. Morgan, David R. Morrison and . American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI; Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton, NJ, 1999. Vol. 1: xxii+723 pp.; Vol. 2: pp. i--xxiv and 727–1501. , 81-06 (81T30 81Txx)


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