Key facts
- Born
- Luis Ángel Caffarelli , ( 1948-12-08 ) December 8, 1948 (age 77) , Buenos Aires , Argentina
- Education
- University of Buenos Aires ( MS , PhD )
- Spouse
- Irene M. Gamba
- Awards
- Bôcher Memorial Prize (1984), Pontifical Academy of Sciences (1994), Rolf Schock Prize (2005), Leroy P. Steele Prize (2009), Wolf Prize (2012), Shaw Prize (2018), Abel Prize (2023)
- Fields
- Mathematics
- Institutions
- University of Texas at Austin , Institute for Advanced Study , University of Chicago , CIMS , University of Minnesota
- Thesis
- Sobre Conjugación y Sumabilidad, de Series de Jacobi, (On Conjugation and Summability, of the Jacobi Series) (1971)
- Doctoral advisor
- Calixto Calderón
- Doctoral students
- Guido De Philippis , Ovidiu Savin , Eduardo V. Teixeira
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Luis
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Buenos Aires
- Spouse
- Irene M. Gamba
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- National School of Buenos Aires
- Employer
- University of Minnesota
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Field of work
- partial differential equation
- Image
- Luis Caffarelli.jpg
- Residence
- Buenos Aires
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- Commons category
- Luis Caffarelli
- date of birth
- 1948-12-08
- member of
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- Erdős number
- 3
- name in native language
- Luis Caffarelli
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- interested in
- mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
Luis Ángel Caffarelli ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈlwis 'anxel kafaˈɾeli]; born December 8, 1948) is an Argentine-American mathematician. He studies partial differential equations and their applications. Caffarelli is a professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin, and the winner of the 2023 Abel Prize.
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