Ehud Hrushovski

Who is Ehud Hrushovski?

Ehud Hrushovski is a mathematical logician. He is a Professor of Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His father, Benjamin Harshav, is Emeritus Professor at Yale University and Tel Aviv University in comparative literature and a poet.

Hrushovski is well known for his work in model theory, in particular in the branch that has become known as geometric model theory; and for the applications he has made of it to Diophantine geometry, including the Mordell–Lang conjecture. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.