Joseph Bernstein
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Joseph Bernstein, Iosif Naumovič Bernštejn, Hebrew: יוס(י)ף ברנשטיין (born April 18, 1945 in Moscow) is an Israeli mathematician at Tel Aviv University who works in algebraic geometry, representation theory, and number theory.
He received his PhD in 1972 under Israil Gelfand at Moscow State University and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2004. He was awarded the Israel Prize in mathematics in 2004. Some of his students include Edward Frenkel, Roman Bezrukavnikov, Alexander Braverman, and Dennis Gaitsgory, all of whom work on the geometric Langlands program.
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- Some pdf files of papers by Bernstein including Algebraic theory of D-modules and his notes on Meromorphic continuation of Eisenstein series
- Beilinson, A. A.; Bernstein, J.; Deligne, P. Faisceaux pervers. (Perverse sheaves) Analysis and topology on singular spaces, I (Luminy, 1981), 5-171, Astérisque, 100, Soc. Math. France, Paris, 1982.