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Ronald Coifman

Israeli mathematician

Ronald Raphael Coifman (Hebrew: רונלד קויפמן; born June 29, 1941) is a Sterling professor of Mathematics at Yale University. Coifman earned a doctorate from the University of Geneva in 1965, supervised by Jovan Karamata.²

From Wikipedia’s article on Ronald Coifman (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born Jun 29, 1941.¹

About

Coifman is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, and the National Academy of Sciences. He is a recipient of the 1996 DARPA Sustained Excellence Award, the 1996 Connecticut Science Medal, the 1999 Pioneer Award of the International Society for Industrial and Applied Science, and the 1999 National Medal of Science.

Prior to teaching at Yale, Coifman taught at Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Chicago.

In 2013, he co-founded ThetaRay, a cyber security and big data analytics company.

In 2018, he received the Rolf Schock Prize for Mathematics. In 2024 he was awarded the George David Birkhoff Prize.

From Wikipedia’s article on Ronald Coifman, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.²

Companies

ThetaRayFounder¹⁵

Early life and education

Date not recordedUniversity of Geneva³

Career

Occupation: university teacher, mathematician.⁷

Date not recordedWorked at Washington University in St. Louis⁴
Date not recordedWorked at Yale University^{4 5}
Date not recordedFounded ThetaRay⁶

Personal life

BornJun 29, 1941, Tel Aviv⁸
CitizenshipUnited States⁹

Awards

2018Rolf Schock Prize in Mathematics^{10 14}
2010honorary doctor of the École normale supérieure de Cachan^{10 13}
2002Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science^{10 12}
1999National Medal of Science^{10 11}

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WikidataRonald Coifman: Founded ThetaRay, on Wikidata
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Wikimedia CommonsRonald Coifman photo by ICM 2018, Public domain