Benedict Gross

Benedict Hyman Gross (born June 22, 1950) is an American mathematician, the George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University and former Dean of Harvard College. In 1971 he graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University. He then received an M.Sc. from Oxford University in 1974 before returning to Harvard and completing his Ph.D. in 1978, under John Tate. He is known for his work in number theory, particularly the Gross–Zagier theorem on L-functions of elliptic curves, which was work with Don Zagier. He, Zagier, and Dorian M. Goldfeld won the Cole Prize of the American Mathematical Society in 1987 for this work. After holding faculty positions at Princeton University and Brown University, Gross became a tenured...