Don Zagier
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Don Bernhard Zagier (born 1951) is a German mathematician. He is currently one of the directors of the Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in Bonn, Germany, and a professor at the Collège de France in Paris, France.
He was born in Heidelberg, Germany. He grew up in the United States, and studied for three years at M.I.T., completing his bachelor's and master's degree and being named a Putnam Fellow in 1967 at the age of 16. He wrote a doctoral dissertation on characteristic classes under Friedrich Hirzebruch, and later collaborated with Hirzebruch in work on Hilbert modular surfaces.
He also is known for discovering a short and elementary proof of Fermat's theorem on sums of two squares [1][2].
He won the Cole Prize in 1987.
See also: Gross-Zagier theorem.
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- Biography from the webpage of the Max Planck Society
- Don Zagier at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- D. Zagier. "A One-Sentence Proof That Every Prime p≡1(mod 4) Is a Sum of Two Squares". The American Mathematical Monthly (Vol. 97, No. 2. (Feb., 1990),). JSTOR URL
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