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Biography

Born in Milan, Italy on 26 Nov 1940.
Undertook his doctoral degree at the University of Milan in 1963.
He taught at the University of Pisa and at the Scuola Normale Superiore at Pisa.
1966 appointed to a chair of mathematics at the University of Pisa
1977 joined the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

Influences

G Ricci - Milan
H Davenport - Trinity College, Cambridge.

Achievements and Awards

Publications of Importance

Karl Egil Aubert, Enrico Bombieri, Dorian Goldfeld, editors, Number Theory, Trace Formulas, and Discrete Groups: Symposium in Honor of Atle Selberg, Oslo, Norway, July 14-21, 1987. Academic Press
Enrico Bombieri, An Introduction to Minimal Currents and Parametric Variational Problems, Harwood Academic
Enrico Bombieri, Seminar on Minimal Submanifolds, Princeton University Press
F J Almgren and H Montgomery, The 1974 Fields medals II : An analyst and number theorist, Science 186 (4159) (1974), 130-131.
K Chandrasekharan, The work of Enrico Bombieri, Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Vancouver 1974 1 (Montreal, Que., 1975), 3-10.
Enrico Bombieri (French), C. R. Acad. Sci. Ser. Gen. Vie Sci. 1 (6) (1984), 513.
W Schwarz, Zum zahlentheoretischen Werk von Enrico Bombieri, Jahrbuch überblicke Mathematik, 1975 (Mannheim, 1975), 150-151.

Inventions or Contributions to Knowledge

A leading authority on number theory, the study of integers and their relation to one another, and minimal surfaces, the study of multidimensional surfaces.

Internet Links of Significance

The MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive - Enrico Bombieri's Biography.