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Thomas Wolff (born July 14 1954, New York City; died, July 31 2000, Kern County), a noted mathematician, working primarily in the fields of harmonic analysis, complex analysis, and partial differential equations. As an undergraduate at Harvard University he regularly played poker with his classmate Bill Gates. While a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley from 1976 to 1979, under the direction of Donald Sarason , he obtained a new proof of the corona theorem , a famously difficult theorem in complex analysis. He was made Professor of Mathematics at Caltech in 1986, and was there from 1988-1992 and from 1995 to his death in a car accident in 2000. He also held positions at the University of Washington, University of Chicago, New York UniversityMotto Perstare et praestare ("To persevere and to excel") Established 1831 School type Private President John Sexton Location New York, NY, USA Enrollment 19,506 undergraduate, 18,682 graduate and professional Faculty 1,907 Campus Urban Athletics 18 sport, and University of California, Berkeley.He received the Salem PrizeThe Salem Prize founded by the widow of Raphael Salem, is awarded every year to a young mathematician judged to have done outstanding work in Salem's field of interest, primarily the theory of Fourier series. Past winners 1968 Nicholas Varopoulos 1969 Ric in 1985 and the Bocher Prize in 1999, for his contributions to analysis and particularly to the Kakeya conjecture.
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