Ofer Gabber

Ofer Gabber (Hebrew: עופר גאבר; born May 16, 1958) is a mathematician working in algebraic geometry.

Ofer Gabber
עופר גאבר
Born	(1958-05-16) May 16, 1958 (age 67)
Alma mater	Harvard University
Known for	Algebraic geometry
Awards	Erdős Prize (1981), Prix Thérèse Gautier (2011)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques
Doctoral advisor	Barry Mazur

Life

In 1978 Gabber received a Ph.D. from Harvard University for the thesis Some theorems on Azumaya algebras, written under the supervision of Barry Mazur.^[1] Gabber has been at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques in Bures-sur-Yvette in Paris since 1984 as a CNRS senior researcher. He won the Erdős Prize in 1981 and the Prix Thérèse Gautier from the French Academy of Sciences in 2011. In 1981 Gabber with Victor Kac published a proof of a conjecture stated by Kac in 1968.^[2]

Books

• With Lorenzo Ramero: Almost Ring Theory, Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1800, 2003.
• With Brian Conrad, Gopal Prasad: Pseudo-reductive Groups, Cambridge University Press, 2010; 2015, 2nd edition^[3]

See also

• Gabber rigidity
• Almost ring theory
• t-structure
• Theorem of absolute purity