Edward Bierstone, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Edward Bierstone

Canadian mathematician

Date of Birth: 21-Dec-1946

Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Edward Bierstone (born (1946-12-21)December 21, 1946) is a Canadian mathematician at the University of Toronto who specializes in singularity theory, analytic geometry, and differential analysis. He received his B.Sc.
from the University of Toronto and his Ph.D.
at Brandeis University in 1972.
He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in the summer of 1973.
He served as the Director of the Fields Institute from 2009 to 2013.Bierstone was elected a member of the Royal Society of Canada in 1992 and, together with Pierre Milman, received the Jefferey Williams Prize in 2005.
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.