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Bernard Dwork

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American mathematician (1923-1998)

United StatesAcademicsLived 1923 to 1998 · aged 74
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Bernard Morris Dwork was an American mathematician, known for his application of p-adic analysis to local zeta functions, and in particular for a proof of the first part of the Weil conjectures: the rationality of the zeta function of a variety over a finite field.

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Guggenheim Fellowship
Cole Prize in Number Theory

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Bernard Morris Dwork was an American mathematician, known for his application of p-adic analysis to local zeta functions, and in particular for a proof of the first part of the Weil conjectures: the rationality of the zeta function of a variety over a finite field. The general theme of Dwork's research was p-adic cohomology and p-adic differential equations. He published two papers under the pseudonym Maurizio Boyarsky.

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Lived 1923 to 1998 · aged 74
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