Hillel Furstenberg

Hillel Furstenberg is a German-born American-Israeli mathematician and professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, born in 1935. His family escaped Nazi Germany for the United States in 1939 and settled in New York City, and he took his BA and MSc at Yeshiva University by the age of 20. He pursued his doctorate at Princeton University under Salomon Bochner, was a Moore instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and took his first job as an assistant professor in 1961 at the University of Minnesota. He is known for applying probability theory and ergodic theory to number theory and Lie groups, and is a laureate of the Abel Prize and the Wolf Prize in Mathematics.