Bernard Dwork
Bernard Morris Dwork was an American mathematician, known for his application of p-adic analysis to local zeta functions, and in particular for a proof of the first part of the Weil conjectures: the rationality of the zeta-function of a variety over a finite field. The general theme of Dwork's research was p-adic cohomology and p-adic differential equations. He published two papers under the pseudonym Maurizio Boyarsky.Career
Dwork received his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1954 under direction of Emil Artin ; Nick Katz was one of his students.
For his proof of the first part of the Weil conjectures, Dwork received the Cole Prize in 1962. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1964.Dwork is the father of computer scientist Cynthia Dwork, who received the Dijkstra Prize and is now continuing as a Radcliffe Scholar at Harvard University. His other daughter, historian Deborah Dwork, received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1993. Additionally, his son Andrew Dwork works as a Professor of Clinical Pathology and Cell Biology, at Columbia University, focusing his work on neuropathology of psychiatric disorders.
