84-year-old professor Hillel Furstenberg from Hebrew University became a laureate of the highest mathematical Abel Prize (sometimes referred to as the "

Together with Furstenberg, Professor Gregory Margolis from Yale University was awarded this prize.. co. il.

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Hillel Furstenberg was born on September 29, 1935 in Berlin. He emigrated to the United States at an early age.. Received bachelor's and master's degrees at Yeshiva University. In the 1950s, he proposed a proof of the infinity of primes using the topology of point sets. In 1958, under the leadership of Salomon Bochner, he defended his doctoral dissertation at Princeton University.. After several years working as a professor at the University of Minnesota, Furstenberg repatriated to Israel and received the title of professor at the Einstein Mathematical Institute at Hebrew University.

From 1968 until his retirement in 2003, he held a similar position at Bar Ilan University.. In 1977, he proposed an ergodic proof of Samardi's theorem, which strengthened the connection between probability theory and combinatorics. In 1993 - winner of the State Prize of Israel. In 1995 he was elected a member of the Israeli Academy of Sciences.. Areas of research: ergodic theory, probability theory, topological dynamics, analysis of symmetric spaces and homogeneous flows, random Fibonacci sequence. Lives in Efrat. Married since 1980, has six children.