Harald Helfgott
Harald Andrés Helfgott | |
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Helfgott at IPAM in May 2014 | |
| Born | Harald Andrés Helfgott 25 November 1977 Lima, Peru |
| Alma mater | Brandeis University (BA) Princeton University (PhD) |
| Known for | Proof of Goldbach's weak conjecture |
| Awards | Leverhulme Prize (2008) Whitehead Prize (2010) Adams Prize (2011) Humboldt Professorship (2015) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | CNRS/Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu University of Göttingen |
| Doctoral advisor | Henryk Iwaniec Peter Sarnak |
Harald Andrés Helfgott (born 25 November 1977) is a Peruvian mathematician working in number theory. Helfgott is a researcher (directeur de recherche) at the CNRS at the Institut Mathématique de Jussieu, Paris. He is best known for submitting a proof, now widely accepted but not yet fully published, of Goldbach's weak conjecture.