Henryk Iwaniec

Henryk Iwaniec (born 1947) is a Polish-American mathematician and New Jersey Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Rutgers University, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Polish Academy of Sciences. He has made important contributions to analytic and algebraic number theory and to harmonic analysis, studying both sieve methods and complex-analytic techniques with an emphasis on automorphic forms. He earned his doctorate at the University of Warsaw in 1972 under Andrzej Schinzel and moved to Rutgers in 1987. With John Friedlander he proved in 1997 that there are infinitely many primes of the form a squared plus b to the fourth. His honours include the Ostrowski Prize (2001), the Cole Prize (2002), the Steele Prize (2011) and the Shaw Prize (2015). He is the twin brother of the mathematician Tadeusz Iwaniec.