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Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro
Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro
Born	30 March 1929; Moscow, Soviet Union
Died	21 February 2009 (aged 79); Tel Aviv, Israel
Alma mater	Moscow Pedagogical Institute (PhD)
Known for	Automorphic form; L-functions
Awards	Israel Prize (1981); Wolf Prize (1990)
	Scientific career
Fields	Pure mathematics
Institutions	Moscow State University; Steklov Institute; Yale University; Tel Aviv University
Doctoral advisor	Alexander Buchstab
Doctoral students	James Cogdell; Boris Moishezon; Ze'ev Rudnick; David Soudry; Mina Teicher; Andrei Toom; Leonid Vaseršteĭn; Ernest Vinberg

Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro (Hebrew: איליה פיאטצקי-שפירו; Russian: Илья́ Ио́сифович Пяте́цкий-Шапи́ро; 30 March 1929 – 21 February 2009) was a Soviet-born Israeli mathematician. During a career that spanned 60 years he made major contributions to applied science as well as pure mathematics. In his last forty years his research focused on pure mathematics; in particular, analytic number theory, group representations and algebraic geometry. His main contribution and impact was in the area of automorphic forms and L-functions.^[1]^[2]

For the last 30 years of his life he suffered from Parkinson's disease. However, with the help of his wife Edith, he was able to continue to work and do mathematics at the highest level, even when he was barely able to walk and speak.

Moscow years: 1929–1959

Piatetski-Shapiro was born in 1929 in Moscow, Soviet Union. Both his father, Iosif Grigor'evich, and mother, Sofia Arkadievna, were from traditional Jewish families, which had become assimilated. His father was from Berdichev, a small city in Ukraine, with a largely Jewish population. His mother was from Gomel, a similar small city in Belarus. Both parents' families were middle-class, but they sank into poverty after the October revolution of 1917. He became interested in mathematics at the age of 10, struck, as he wrote in his short memoir, "by the charm and unusual beauty of negative numbers", which his father, a PhD in chemical engineering, showed him.

In 1952, Piatetski-Shapiro won the Moscow Mathematical Society Prize for a Young Mathematician for work done while still an undergraduate at Moscow University. His winning paper^[3]^[4] contained a solution to the problem of the French analyst Raphaël Salem on sets of uniqueness of trigonometric series. The award was especially remarkable because of the atmosphere of strong anti-Semitism in Soviet Union at that time.^{[citation needed]}

Despite the award, and a very strong recommendation by his mentor Alexander O. Gelfond, a professor of mathematics at Moscow University and an important Communist Party member (Gelfond’s father was a friend of Lenin), Piatetski-Shapiro’s application to graduate program at Moscow University was rejected. He was ultimately admitted to the Moscow Pedagogical Institute, where he received his Ph.D. in 1954 under the direction of Alexander Buchstab. His early work was in classical analytic number theory. This includes his paper on what is now known as the Piatetski-Shapiro prime number theorem,^[5] which states that, for 1 ≤ c ≤ 12/11, the number of integers 1 ≤ n ≤ x for which the integer part of n^c is prime is asymptotically x / c log x as x → ∞.

After leaving the Moscow Pedagogical Institute, he spent a year at the Steklov Institute, where he received the advanced Doctor of Sciences degree, also in 1954, under the direction of Igor Shafarevich. His contact with Shafarevich, who was a professor at the Steklov Institute, broadened Piatetski-Shapiro's mathematical outlook and directed his attention to modern number theory and algebraic geometry. This led, after a while, to the joint paper ^[6] in which they proved a Torelli theorem for K3 surfaces.

Moscow years: 1960s

Piatetski-Shapiro in 1958 was made a professor of mathematics at the Moscow Institute of Applied Mathematics, where he introduced Siegel domains. By the 1960s, he was recognized as a star mathematician. In 1965 he was appointed to an additional professorship at Moscow State University. He conducted seminars for advanced students, among them Grigory Margulis (now at Yale) and David Kazhdan (now at Hebrew University). He was invited to attend 1962 International Congress of Mathematicians in Stockholm, but was not allowed to go by Soviet authorities (Shafarevich, also invited, presented his talk). In 1966, Piatetski-Shapiro was again invited to the ICM in Moscow ^[7] where he presented a 1-hour lecture on Automorphic Functions and arithmetic groups (Автоморфные функции и арифметические группы).

Piatetski-Shapiro was not allowed to travel abroad to attend meetings or visit colleagues except for one short trip to Hungary. The Soviet authorities insisted on one condition: become a party member, and then you can travel anywhere you want. Ilya gave his famous answer: “The membership in the Communist Party will distract me from my work.”

During the span of his career Piatetski-Shapiro was influenced greatly by Israel Gelfand. The aim of their collaboration was to introduce novel representation theory into classical modular forms and number theory. Together with Graev, they wrote the book Automorphic Forms and Representations.^[8]

Refusenik period and emigration to Israel

During the early 1970s, a growing number of Soviet Jews were permitted to emigrate to Israel. The anti-Jewish behavior in the Soviet Union, however, was not enough to make Piatetski-Shapiro want to leave his country. What shook him to the core was the difficulty of maintaining a Jewish identity and the enforced conformity to communism around him in the scientific community. He didn’t wish this future for his son, sixteen at the time.^{[citation needed]}

Piatetski-Shapiro lost his part-time position at mathematics department of Moscow State University in 1973, after he signed a letter asking Soviet authorities to release a dissident mathematician Alexander Esenin-Volpin from a mental institution. Many other mathematicians who signed the letter (including Shafarevich) also lost their part-time positions.^{[citation needed]}

After his ex-wife and son left the Soviet Union in 1974, Piatetski-Shapiro also applied for an exit visa to Israel and was refused.^{[citation needed]} After applying for emigration in 1974, he lost his research position at the Moscow Institute of Applied Mathematics (IPM). The authorities refused to grant him an exit visa, claiming that he was too valuable a scientist to be allowed to leave. As a refusenik, he lost access to mathematical libraries and other academic resources. He continued his researches nevertheless, and colleagues took books from the library for him.^{[citation needed]}

As a prominent refusenik with connections to an international scientific community, Piatetski-Shapiro was followed around by a KGB car and his apartment was under electronic surveillance. He conducted his meetings with friends and colleagues by writing on a plastic board, especially when he needed to communicate about his situation. His plight as a mathematician, with serious restrictions on his researches and without means for survival, attracted much attention in the U.S. and Europe.^{[citation needed]} In 1976, a presentation was made to the Council of the National Academy of Sciences urging the use of their good offices to get Piatetski-Shapiro an exit visa. Later that year, he obtained one. His second marriage ended as his then-current wife remained in Moscow. He visited colleagues all over the world who had signed petitions and fought for his freedom before going to Israel. He was welcomed warmly upon arrival in Israel and accepted a professorship at Tel Aviv University. He was elected into Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 1978.^[9]

After leaving Soviet Union, Piatetski-Shapiro also visited the USA in 1976 and spent a semester as a visiting professor at University of Maryland.^{[citation needed]}

Yale and converse theorem

Starting in 1977, Piatetski-Shapiro divided his time between Tel Aviv University and Yale University, directing doctoral dissertations in both places. One of his major works at Yale dealt with the converse theorem which establishes a link between automorphic forms on n by n matrix groups and zeta functions.^{[citation needed]}

For n = 1 this theorem is classical. The assertion for n = 2 was proved by André Weil, and the novel version for n = 3 was conceived by Piatetski-Shapiro while he was still a refusenik in the Soviet Union. It took another 25 years and works with other collaborators, in particular his student James Cogdell, before a full result for the general case was completed.^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13]

The converse theorem has played a role in many of the results known in the direction of the principle of functoriality of Langlands.

Last years

Piatetski-Shapiro battled Parkinson's disease for the last 30 years of his life. His condition worsened in the last 10 years to the point where he was barely able to move and speak, but thanks to the support of his wife Edith, he was still able to travel to mathematical conferences. With the help of James Cogdell he was able to continue research until almost his last days.^{[citation needed]}

He was married three times and had a son, Gregory I. Piatetsky-Shapiro and daughters, Vera Lipkin and Shelly Shapiro Baldwin.^{[citation needed]}

Awards and honours

Piatetski-Shapiro was elected to the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 1978,^[9] was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1992–1993,^[14] and was the recipient of numerous prizes, including:

In 1981, the Israel Prize, for mathematics;^[15] and
In 1990, the Wolf Prize for Mathematics.^[16]
In 2020, the Jerusalem Post listed Piatetski-Shapiro as one of the Russian-speaking Jews who shaped Israel. It notes that along with colleague James Cogdell, Piatetski-Shapiro developed the Converse Theorem, which finds some deep relationships between different fields of mathematics.^[17]

He was invited to address the quadrennial International Mathematical Congress — one of the highest mathematical honors — 4 times: 1962, 1966 (gave plenary address), 1978 (presented 45 minute talk), and 2002.

References

^ "Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, In Memoriam" (PDF), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 57 (10): 1260–1275, 2010
^ Tel Aviv University obituary Archived 2009-12-29 at the Wayback Machine
^ Pyateckiĭ-Šapiro, I.I. (1952). "On the problem of the uniqueness of the expansion of a function in a trigonometric series". Moskov. Gos. Univ. Uč. Zap. Mat. 155 (5): 54–72.
^ Pyateckiĭ-Šapiro, I.I. (1954). "Supplement to the work On the problem of uniqueness of expansion of a function in a trigonometric series". Moskov. Gos. Univ. Uč. Zap. Mat. 165 (7): 79–97.
^ Pyateckiĭ-Šapiro, I.I. (1953). "On the distribution of prime numbers in sequences of the form [f(n)]". Mat. Sbornik. New Series. 33 (75): 559–566.
^ Pjateckiĭ-Šapiro, I.I.; Šafarevič, I.R. (1971). "Torelli's theorem for algebraic surfaces of type K3". Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR Ser. Mat. 35 (3): 530–572. Bibcode:1971IzMat...5..547P. doi:10.1070/IM1971v005n03ABEH001075.
^ ICM66 webpage (in russian) Archived 2008-05-14 at the Wayback Machine
^ Gelʹfand, I.M.; Graev, M.I.; Pjateckiĭ-Šapiro, I.I. (1966). Theory of Теория представлений и автоморфные функции (Theory of representations and automorphic functions). Moscow: Nauka.
^ ^a ^b Israel Academy webpage Archived 2011-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
^ Cogdell, James W.; Piatetski-Shapiro, I. I. (1994). "Converse theorems for GL_n". Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS. 79 (79): 157–214. doi:10.1007/BF02698889. ISSN 1618-1913. MR 1307299. S2CID 55855932.
^ Cogdell, James W.; Piatetski-Shapiro, I. I. (1999). "Converse theorems for GL_n. II". Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik. 1999 (507): 165–188. doi:10.1515/crll.1999.507.165. ISSN 0075-4102. MR 1670207. S2CID 123558796.
^ Cogdell, James W.; Piatetski-Shapiro, I. I. (2002). "Converse theorems, functoriality, and applications to number theory". In Li, Tatsien (ed.). Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Vol. II (Beijing, 2002). Beijing: Higher Ed. Press. pp. 119–128. arXiv:math/0304230. Bibcode:2003math......4230C. ISBN 978-7-04-008690-4. MR 1957026. Archived from the original on 2011-08-20. Retrieved 2011-06-30.
^ Cogdell, James W. (2007). "L-functions and converse theorems for GL_n". In Sarnak, Peter; Shahidi, Freydoon (eds.). Automorphic forms and applications. IAS/Park City Math. Ser. Vol. 12. Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society. pp. 97–177. ISBN 978-0-8218-2873-1. MR 2331345.
^ "Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
^ "Israel Prize Official Site - Recipients in 1981 (in Hebrew)".
^ "The Wolf Foundation Prize in Mathematics". Wolf Foundation. 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-04-10. Retrieved 2008-04-08.
^ "The Jerusalem Post Russian Speaking Jews that Shaped Israel". The Jerusalem Post.

External links

"Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, In Memoriam" (PDF), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 57 (10): 1260–1275, 2010
Chang, Kenneth (March 5, 2009). "Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, Math Theorist Who Clashed With Soviets, Dies at 79". The New York Times.
Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro memorial page for Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro Archived 2009-08-05 at the Wayback Machine - share your memories there
Boston Globe Obituary, Mar 6, 2009
Yale Math Dept Obituary for Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, Feb 2009
American Mathematical Society Obituary for Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, Feb 2009
Tel Aviv University On The Life And Work Of Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, Mar 2009
Tel Aviv University Obituary for Prof. Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, (in Hebrew), Feb 2009
Avzel blog entry Ilya Iosifovich Piatetski-Shapiro (in Russian), Feb 2009
O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
Conference in Honor of Dan Mostow and Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, Apr 1999

[1] "Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, In Memoriam" (PDF), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 57 (10): 1260–1275, 2010

[2] Tel Aviv University obituary Archived 2009-12-29 at the Wayback Machine

[3] Pyateckiĭ-Šapiro, I.I. (1952). "On the problem of the uniqueness of the expansion of a function in a trigonometric series". Moskov. Gos. Univ. Uč. Zap. Mat. 155 (5): 54–72.

[4] Pyateckiĭ-Šapiro, I.I. (1954). "Supplement to the work On the problem of uniqueness of expansion of a function in a trigonometric series". Moskov. Gos. Univ. Uč. Zap. Mat. 165 (7): 79–97.

[5] Pyateckiĭ-Šapiro, I.I. (1953). "On the distribution of prime numbers in sequences of the form [f(n)]". Mat. Sbornik. New Series. 33 (75): 559–566.

[6] Pjateckiĭ-Šapiro, I.I.; Šafarevič, I.R. (1971). "Torelli's theorem for algebraic surfaces of type K3". Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR Ser. Mat. 35 (3): 530–572. Bibcode:1971IzMat...5..547P. doi:10.1070/IM1971v005n03ABEH001075.

[7] ICM66 webpage (in russian) Archived 2008-05-14 at the Wayback Machine

[8] Gelʹfand, I.M.; Graev, M.I.; Pjateckiĭ-Šapiro, I.I. (1966). Theory of Теория представлений и автоморфные функции (Theory of representations and automorphic functions). Moscow: Nauka.

[acad-9] Israel Academy webpage Archived 2011-09-28 at the Wayback Machine

[10] Cogdell, James W.; Piatetski-Shapiro, I. I. (1994). "Converse theorems for GL_n". Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS. 79 (79): 157–214. doi:10.1007/BF02698889. ISSN 1618-1913. MR 1307299. S2CID 55855932.

[11] Cogdell, James W.; Piatetski-Shapiro, I. I. (1999). "Converse theorems for GL_n. II". Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik. 1999 (507): 165–188. doi:10.1515/crll.1999.507.165. ISSN 0075-4102. MR 1670207. S2CID 123558796.

[12] Cogdell, James W.; Piatetski-Shapiro, I. I. (2002). "Converse theorems, functoriality, and applications to number theory". In Li, Tatsien (ed.). Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Vol. II (Beijing, 2002). Beijing: Higher Ed. Press. pp. 119–128. arXiv:math/0304230. Bibcode:2003math......4230C. ISBN 978-7-04-008690-4. MR 1957026. Archived from the original on 2011-08-20. Retrieved 2011-06-30.

[13] Cogdell, James W. (2007). "L-functions and converse theorems for GL_n". In Sarnak, Peter; Shahidi, Freydoon (eds.). Automorphic forms and applications. IAS/Park City Math. Ser. Vol. 12. Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society. pp. 97–177. ISBN 978-0-8218-2873-1. MR 2331345.

[14] "Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

[prize-15] "Israel Prize Official Site - Recipients in 1981 (in Hebrew)".

[16] "The Wolf Foundation Prize in Mathematics". Wolf Foundation. 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-04-10. Retrieved 2008-04-08.

[17] "The Jerusalem Post Russian Speaking Jews that Shaped Israel". The Jerusalem Post.

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Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro

Moscow years: 1929–1959

Moscow years: 1960s

Refusenik period and emigration to Israel

Yale and converse theorem

Last years

Awards and honours

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References

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