Name John Friedlander | Role Mathematician Fields Mathematician | |
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Institutions Institute for Advanced StudyMITUniversity of Toronto Known for Analytic number theoryBombieri–Friedlander–Iwaniec theorem Notable awards Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Jeffery–Williams Prize, Fellow of American Mathematical Society, 2012 Books Basic Psychic Develop, Psychic Psychology: Energy S, The Practical Psychic | ||
Doctoral students Cem Yalcin Yildirim |
Far fridays with robert phoenix special guest john friedlander 2 24 2012
John Friedlander is a Canadian mathematician specializing in analytic number theory. He received his B.Sc. from the University of Toronto in 1965, an M.A. from the University of Waterloo in 1966, and a Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in 1972. He was a lecturer at M.I.T. in 1974-76, and has been on the faculty of the University of Toronto since 1977, where he served as Chair during 1987-91. He has also spent several years at the Institute for Advanced Study. In addition to his individual work, he has been notable for his collaborations with other well-known number theorists, including Enrico Bombieri, William Duke, Andrew Granville, and especially Henryk Iwaniec.
Contents
- Far fridays with robert phoenix special guest john friedlander 2 24 2012
- John Friedlander Selberg and the Sieve a Positive Approach 2008
- Awards and honors
- Selected publications
- References

In 1997, in joint work with Henryk Iwaniec, Friedlander proved that infinitely many prime numbers can be obtained as the sum of a square and fourth power: a2 + b4. Friedlander and Iwaniec improved Enrico Bombieri's "asymptotic sieve" technique to construct their proof.
John Friedlander - Selberg and the Sieve; a Positive Approach [2008]
Awards and honors
In 1999, Friedlander received the Jeffery–Williams Prize.
In 1988, Friedlander became a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
In 2002, CRM-Fields-PIMS prize
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
In 2017 he received the Joseph L. Doob prize, jointly with Henryk Iwaniec, for their book Opera de Cribro.