Moshe Jarden

In 1987, Moshe Jarden won the Landau Prize for the publication of "Field Arithmetic". Some years after the release of the first edition, it was realized that the term "field arithmetic" had already been coined by the mathematician Paulo Ribenboim somewhat earlier, who had published a book in French named "L'Arithmétique des Corps".

He was awarded the Landau prize for the book "Field Arithmetic" in 1987, and the L. Meithner-A.v.Humboldt Prize in 2001 for his achievements in mathematics.

In 1979, Moshe Jarden came to Irvine and met Michael Fried. This was during this visit that Fried suggested to write a joint book on the topics they had worked about so far, and proposed the name "Field arithmetic".

Moshe Jarden was born in 1942 in Tel Aviv. His father, Dr. Dov Jarden, was a mathematician, writer and linguist, who transmitted him his love to mathematics. In 1970 he received his Ph.D in Mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, with Hillel Furstenberg as his thesis advisor. He accomplished his post doctorate during the years 1971-1973 at the Institut of Mathematics, Heidelberg University, with Peter Roquette as his mentor, and habilitated there in 1972. During these years in Heidelberg, he initiated an intense and long term cooperation with German mathematicians, especially with Peter Roquette, Wulf-Dieter Geyer, Gerhard Frey, and Juergen Ritter. His achievements in mathematics, as well as the foundation of this fruitful cooperation with German mathematicians, earned him the L. Meithner-A.v.Humboldt Prize by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2001. In 1974, Moshe Jarden returned to Israel, and joined the School of Mathematics of Tel Aviv University. He became a full professor in 1982, and the incumbent of the Cissie and Aaron Beare chair in Algebra and Number Theory in 1998. One of his great achievements is the publication of the book "Field Arithmetic" in the series Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete of Springer, which earned him the Landau Prize.