Professor
Alexander A. Beilinson
University of Chicago
Mathematician; Educator
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics
Elected
2008
David and Mary Winton Green University Professor. Made a collection of influential conjectures relating algebraic cycles and special values of L-functions and proved these conjectures in the case of a modular curve. One of the inventors of perverse sheaves and of Beilinson-Bernstein localization. These have become indispensable tools in modern geometry and representation theory.