Ilya Pyatetskii-Shapiro

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Ilya Pyatetskii-Shapiro (born 1929) is a mathematician, well known for contributions to the theory of Fourier series, bounded homogeneous domains and associated discrete groups, automorphic forms, and algebraic geometry. Born into a Jewish family in the USSR, he emigrated to Israel. He has held professorial positions at Tel Aviv and Yale Universities.

He was awarded the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 1990.

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• The Arithmetic and Spectral Analysis of Poincaré Series, J. W. Cogdell, I. I. Piatetski-Shapiro, Perspectives in Mathematics, 13, Academic Press (1990). ISBN 0-12-178590-4
• Selected Works of Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, edited by James Cogdell, Simon Gindikin, and Peter Sarnak, American Mathematics Society (2000). ISBN 0-8218-0930-X
• Complex representations of GL(2,K) for finite fields K, American mathematics society (1983) ISBN 0-8218-5019-9