David Kazhdan, born Dmitry Aleksandrovich Kazhdan on 20 June 1946 in Moscow, is a Soviet and Israeli mathematician known for work in representation theory. He earned his doctorate under Alexandre Kirillov in 1969 and was a member of Israel Gelfand's school of mathematics. He emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1975 to take a position at Harvard University, and in 2002 he moved to Israel, where he is a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was a MacArthur Fellow from 1990 to 1995, received the Israel Prize for Mathematics and Computer Sciences in 2012, and was the doctoral advisor of the Fields Medal winner Vladimir Voevodsky. Kazhdan's property (T) is widely used in representation theory.
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In 2012, he received the Israel Prize for Mathematics and Computer sciences.
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introduced by David Kazhdan (1967)
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