Wilfried Schmid, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Wilfried Schmid

American-German mathematician

Date of Birth: 28-May-1943

Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Wilfried Schmid

  • Wilfried Schmid (born May 28, 1943) is a German-American mathematician who works in Hodge theory, representation theory, and automorphic forms.
  • He earned his Ph.D.
  • at University of California, Berkeley in 1967 under the direction of Phillip Griffiths, and then taught at Berkeley and Columbia University, becoming a Full Professor at Columbia at age 27.
  • In 1978 he moved to Harvard University, where he is currently the Dwight Parker Robinson Professor of Mathematics. Schmid's early work concerns the construction of discrete series representations of semi-simple Lie groups.
  • Notable accomplishments here include a proof of Langlands' conjecture on the discrete series, along with a later proof (joint with Michael Atiyah) constructing all such discrete series representations on spaces of harmonic spinors.
  • Schmid along with his student Henryk Hecht proved Blattner's conjecture in 1975.
  • In the 1970s he described the singularities of the Griffith's period map by applying Lie-theoretic methods to problems in algebraic geometry. Schmid has been very involved in K–12 mathematics education both nationally and internationally.
  • His interest arose in 1999 after being disturbed by the experiences of his 2nd-grade daughter, Sabina, in her mathematics class.
  • He was heavily involved in the drafting of the Massachusetts Mathematics Curriculum Framework in 2000.
  • Later, he served on the National Mathematics Advisory Panel of the U.S.
  • Department of Education.In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

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