Daniel Kubert
Daniel Sion Kubert(/ˈkjuːbərt/;October 18, 1947[1]– January 5, 2010[2]) was an American mathematician who introducedmodular unitsandKubert identities.
He grew up in a secular Jewish family in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, the son of David Kubert, an attorney, and Adele (Sion) Kubert, a high school teacher. Daniel graduated from Philadelphia's Central High School in 1965. Kubert graduated from Brown University in 1969, receiving B.S. and M.A. degrees in the same year.[1][3]He received his Ph.D. in mathematics fromHarvard Universityin 1973,[4]where his dissertation "Universal Bounds on the Torsion and Isogenies of Elliptic Curves" was supervised byBarry Mazur.
Kubert served as a Gibbs Instructor atYale Universityfrom 1973 to 1975.[1]His work on modular units was done in collaboration with Yale mathematicianSerge Lang. Kubert was hired as an assistant professor atCornell Universityin 1975,[1]and was still there at the end of the decade.[5] By the early 1980s, Kubert was at theUniversity of Pennsylvania.[6]He also had two stints at theInstitute for Advanced Study,in 1979–80 and 1984–85.[4]
In later life, Kubert was a resident of Philadelphia.[2]
Selected publications
[edit]- Kubert, Daniel S.;Lang, Serge(1981),Modular units,Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften [Fundamental Principles of Mathematical Science], vol. 244, Berlin, New York:Springer-Verlag,ISBN978-0-387-90517-4,MR0648603,Zbl0492.12002
- Kubert, Dan;Lang, Serge(1975), "Units in the modular function field. I",Mathematische Annalen,218(1): 67–96,doi:10.1007/BF01350068,ISSN0025-5831,MR0437496,S2CID177788984,Zbl0311.14005
References
[edit]- ^abcdAnnual Report 1979/80(PDF).Princeton, New Jersey: Institute for Advanced Study. p. 42.
- ^ab"Obituary: Daniel Kubert".The Philadelphia Inquirer.January 8, 2010.
- ^"Theses & Dissertations".Brown University Library.RetrievedAugust 3,2024.
- ^ab"Daniel Kubert".Institute for Advanced Study.Retrieved7 February2018.
- ^Author credits,Bulletin de la S. M. F., tome 107 (1979), p. 161.
- ^Grants and Awards for Fiscal Year 1982.National Science Foundation. p. 26.