- John Friedlander
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name = John Benjamin Friedlander
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fields =Mathematician
workplaces =Institute for Advanced Study MIT University of Toronto
alma_mater =Penn State
doctoral_advisor =Sarvadaman Chowla
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doctoral_students =Cem Yıldırım
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known_for =Analytic number theory Bombieri–Friedlander–Iwaniec theorem
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footnotes =John Benjamin Friedlander is a Canadian mathematician specializing in
analytic number theory . He works at theUniversity of Toronto . He completed his undergraduate studies in Canada (B.Sc. U. Toronto, 1965), then earned his doctorate in the U.S. (Penn State, 1972) underSarvadaman Chowla . After a brief stint at MIT Friedlander returned to Toronto, where he has been a faculty member since 1977. [ [http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~csms/people/friedlander.html Friedlander bio at U. of Toronto website] ]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. [cite journal|last = Friedlander|first = John|coauthors = Iwaniec, Henryk|title = The polynomial "X"2 + "Y"4 captures its primes|journal = Annals of Mathematics|volume = 148|date = 1998|pages = 945–1040|url = http://www.emis.ams.org/journals/Annals/148_3/fried1.pdf|doi = 10.2307/121034] Friedlander and Iwaniec improvedEnrico Bombieri 's "asymptotic sieve" technique to construct their proof. [ [http://www.ams.org/ams/press/prime1.html International Team Shows that Primes Can Be Found in Surprising Places] ]Notes
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