Hillel (Harry) Furstenberg was born to German Jews in Nazi Germany, in 1935 (originally named "Fürstenberg").
In 1939, shortly after Kristallnacht, his family escaped to
the United States and settled in New York City, escaping the Holocaust.
Furstenberg is a mathematician and professor emeritus at the Hebrew University
of Jerusalem. He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
and U.S. National Academy of Sciences and a laureate of the Abel Prize and the
Wolf Prize in Mathematics.
Furstenberg gained attention at an early stage in his career for producing an innovative topological proof of the infinitude of prime numbers in 1955.
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