Nick Katz

Nick Katz
Born	7 December 1943 (1943-12-07) (age 67) Baltimore
Nationality	United States
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Princeton University
Alma mater	Princeton University
Doctoral advisor	Bernard Dwork
Doctoral students	William Messing Neal Koblitz Richard Crew Benji Fisher Robert Sutor
Known for	Ax–Katz theorem Grothendieck–Katz p-curvature conjecture

Nicholas Michael Katz (born 7 December 1943) is an American mathematician, working in the fields of algebraic geometry, particularly on p-adic methods, monodromy and moduli problems, and number theory. He is currently a professor in the Mathematics Department at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey.

He was a student of Bernard Dwork and then spent time in France, at IHES and Orsay, where he adapted methods of scheme theory and category theory to the theory of modular forms. Subsequently he has applied geometric methods to various exponential sums. Mathematician and cryptographer Neal Koblitz was one of Katz's students.

He played a significant role as a sounding-board for Andrew Wiles when Wiles was developing in secret his proof of Fermat's last theorem.

External links

• Nick Katz at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
• Nick Katz's web page in Princeton

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Date of birth	7 December 1943
Place of birth	Baltimore
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