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| In September 2017, Arthur Jaffe began the at Harvard with his postdoctoral fellow Zhengwei Liu. Their goal to to understand and establish new results in mathematics and in physics through developing and using languages for mathematics based on pictures. They began with studying topological interpretations and design of protocols in quantum information, based on two-dimensional pictures. They solved other problems in quantum information and in algebra using a three-dimensional language. They have an interesting project with connections to many other subject in mathematics and physics, including a new area of "quantum Fourier analysis." | |||
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| Arthur M. Jaffe | |
|---|---|
 Arthur Jaffe at his office in 2005 | |
| Born | (1937-12-22) December 22, 1937 (age 87) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Princeton University Clare College, Cambridge |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematical physics |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
| Doctoral advisor | Arthur Wightman |
| Doctoral students | Ezra Getzler Joel Feldman Clifford Taubes |
Arthur Michael Jaffe (/ˈdʒæfi/; born December 22, 1937) is an American mathematical physicist and a professor at Harvard University.
Professional career
Jaffe attended Princeton University as an undergraduate obtaining a degree in chemistry in 1959, and later Clare College, Cambridge, as a Marshall Scholar, obtaining a degree in mathematics in 1961. He then returned to Princeton, obtaining a doctorate in physics in 1966 with Arthur Wightman. His whole career has been spent teaching mathematical physics and pursuing research at Harvard University. His 26 doctoral students include Joel Feldman, Ezra Getzler, and Clifford Taubes.
For several years Jaffe was president of the International Association of Mathematical Physics, and later of the American Mathematical Society. He chaired the Council of Scientific Society Presidents. He presently serves as Chair of the Board of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, School of Theoretical Physics.
Jaffe conceived the idea of the Clay Mathematics Institute and its programs, including the employment of research fellows and the Millennium Prizes in mathematics. He served as a founding Member, a founding member of the Board, and the founding President of that organization.
Arthur Jaffe began as chief editor of Communications in Mathematical Physics in 1979 and served for 21 years until 2001.
In September 2017, Arthur Jaffe began the Mathematical Picture Language Project at Harvard with his postdoctoral fellow Zhengwei Liu. Their goal to to understand and establish new results in mathematics and in physics through developing and using languages for mathematics based on pictures. They began with studying topological interpretations and design of protocols in quantum information, based on two-dimensional pictures. They solved other problems in quantum information and in algebra using a three-dimensional language. They have an interesting project with connections to many other subject in mathematics and physics, including a new area of "quantum Fourier analysis."
Contributions
With James Glimm, he founded the subject called constructive quantum field theory. Their major achievement was to establish existence theorems for two- and three-dimensional examples of non-linear, relativistic quantum fields.
Awards and honors
Awarded the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics in 1980. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Personal history
Jaffe was married from 1971 to 1992 to Nora F. Crow (aka Nora Crow Jaffe), now a Professor of English Language and Literature at Smith College and an authority on the 18th-century Anglo-Irish satirist Jonathan Swift. Crow accompanied Jaffe on most of his national and international sojourns, including his stays at the ETH in Zürich and the IHES in Büres-sur-Yvette. She gave birth to their daughter, Margaret Collins Jaffe, on September 10, 1986.
In September 1992, Jaffe married Sarah Warren, who worked in the Mathematics Department at Harvard. The marriage lasted for nine years before ending in divorce.
References
- Website of ACAP
- List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-26.
External links
- Jaffe's website
- Mathematical Picture Language Project at Harvard University
- Arthur Jaffe at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- List of Past AMS Presidents (Jaffe is the 54th.)
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- 1937 births
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- Quantum physicists
- Harvard University faculty
- Princeton University alumni
- Marshall Scholars
- Living people
- Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
- Members of the Royal Irish Academy
- Presidents of the American Mathematical Society
- Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
- Guggenheim Fellows
- Mathematical physicists
- Physicists
- Santa Fe Institute people