John Friedlander

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John Benjamin Friedlander, a Canadian mathematician specializing in analytic number theory. He works in the University of Toronto.

Professor Friedlander is one of the world's foremost analytic number theorists, and is a recognized leader in the theory of prime numbers and L-functions. He received his B.Sc. from the University of Toronto in 1965, an M.A. from the University of Waterloo in 1966, and a Ph.D. from Penn State in 1972.

Friedlander is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1988), was an invited lecturer at the 1994 International Congress of Mathematicians in Zürich and delivered the Canadian Mathematical Society Jeffery-Williams Lecture in 1999.

In 1997, in joint work with Henryk Iwaniec, Friedlander proved that infinitely many prime numbers can be obtained as the sum of a square and fourth power.