Professor
Jeff Cheeger
New York University
Mathematician; Educator
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics
Elected
2006
Silver Professor of Mathematics. Leading researcher in Riemannian geometry. Creator or cocreator of theories of finiteness/compactness/collapse, analysis on singular spaces, almost rigidity, and differentiation of Lipschitz functions on singular spaces. Responsible for fundamental results on eigenvalue inequalities, rigidity, analytic torsion, eta-invariants, diffraction, Poincaré duality, Hodge theory, and degeneration of Einstein metrics.
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