Hillel Furstenberg

Harry Furstenberg
Born	(1935-09-29) September 29, 1935 (age 88) Berlin, Nazi Germany
Nationality	Israel American
Education	Yeshiva University (BA, MS) Princeton University (PhD)
Known for	Proof of Szemerédi's theorem IP set Evenly spaced integer topology Furstenberg–Sárközy theorem Furstenberg boundary Furstenberg's proof
Awards	Abel Prize Israel Prize Harvey Prize Wolf Prize
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Thesis	Prediction Theory  (1958)
Doctoral advisor	Salomon Bochner
Doctoral students	Alexander Lubotzky Vitaly Bergelson Shahar Mozes Yuval Peres Tamar Ziegler

Hillel "Harry" Furstenberg (Hebrew: הלל (הארי) פורסטנברג) (born September 29, 1935) is a German-born American-Israeli mathematician and professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and U.S. National Academy of Sciences and a laureate of the Abel Prize and the Wolf Prize in Mathematics. He is known for his application of probability theory and ergodic theory methods to other areas of mathematics, including number theory and Lie groups.