John Friedlander

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John Benjamin Friedlander is a Canadian mathematician specializing in analytic number theory. He works at the University of Toronto. He completed his undergraduate studies in Canada (B.Sc. U. Toronto, 1965), then earned his doctorate in the U.S. (Penn State, 1972). After a brief stint at MIT Friedlander returned to Toronto, where he has been a faculty member since 1977.[1]

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.[2] Friedlander and Iwaniec improved Enrico Bombieri's "asymptotic sieve" technique to construct their proof.[3]

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  1. ^ Friedlander bio at U. of Toronto website
  2. ^ Friedlander, John; Iwaniec, Henryk (1998). "The polynomial X2 + Y4 captures its primes". Annals of Mathematics 148: 945–1040. doi:10.2307/121034. 
  3. ^ International Team Shows that Primes Can Be Found in Surprising Places
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