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Sternberg earned his Ph.D. in 1957 from Johns Hopkins University, where he wrote a dissertation on transformations under Aurel Wintner. He was a Guggenheim Fellow at Harvard University in 1974. One of his best known Ph.D. students is Victor Guillemin (1962), who has also become a leader in symplectic geometry. Sternberg has written several textbooks for undergraduate students as well as a number of monographs, some of which have been republished after several decades, an unusual distinction which indicates their importance in the field.
Following the publication of The Bible Code by journalist Michael Drosnin, which was based in part upon a paper by Rips et al. which appeared in Statistical Science, Sternberg joined many other prominent mathematicians in debunking the notion that Drosnin's controversial claims are well founded in mathematics.
See also
External links
- Sternberg's home page at Harvard has links to a half dozen on-line books
References
Selected books:
- Singer, I. M. & Sternberg, S. (1985). The infinite groups of Lie and Cartan. Part I. The transitive groups. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press. OCLC 12880084.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Guillemin, Victor and Sternberg, Shlomo (1977). Geometric asymptotics. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society. ISBN 0-8218-1514-8.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link); reprinted in 1990 as an on-line book - Sternberg, Shlomo (1983). Lectures on differential geometry. New York: Chelsea. ISBN 0-8284-0316-3.
- Bamberg, Paul and Sternberg, Shlomo (1988). A Course of Mathematics for Students of Physics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-40649-8 (vol 1), ISBN 0-521-40650-1 (vol 2).
{{cite book}}: Check|isbn=value: invalid character (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Sternberg, Shlomo (1994). Group theory and physics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-24870-1.
- Loomis, Lynn H. & Sternberg, Shlomo (1990). Advanced Calculus. Boston: Jones and Bartlett Publishers International.
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- Singer, I. M. & Sternberg, S. (1985). The infinite groups of Lie and Cartan. Part I. The transitive groups. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press. OCLC 12880084.
Commentary on the so-called Bible codes:
- On the Witztum-Rips-Rosenberg Sample of Nations, by Dror Bar-Natan, Brendan McKay, and Shlomo Sternberg
- The Bible Code: A Book Review by Allyn Jackson, followed by "Comments on the Bible Code" by Shlomo Sternberg, Notices of the AMS September 1997
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