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Joseph Bernstein
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| Born | April 18, 1945 Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Israel |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Tel Aviv University |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
| Doctoral advisor | Israil Gelfand |
| Doctoral students | Roman Bezrukavnikov Alexander Braverman Dennis Gaitsgory Edward Frenkel Eitan Sayag Kobi Kremnizer Shamgar Gurevich Ronny Hadani Dmitry Gourevitch Avraham Aizenbud |
| Known for | Bernstein–Sato polynomial; proof of Kazhdan–Lusztig conjectures |
| Notable awards | Israel Prize (2004) |
Joseph Bernstein (sometimes spelled I. N. Bernshtein or Iosif Naumovič Bernštejn, Hebrew: יוס(י)ף נאומוביץ ברנשטיין, Russian: Иосиф Наумович Бернштейн, born April 18, 1945) is an Israeli mathematician working at Tel Aviv University. He works in algebraic geometry, representation theory, and number theory.
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Bernstein received his Ph.D. in 1972 under Israel Gelfand at Moscow State University and was elected to the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2002 and was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2004.
In 2004, Bernstein was awarded the Israel Prize for mathematics.[1][2]