Oded Schramm (December 10, 1961 in Jerusalem, Israel – September 1, 2008, Washington State, USA) (Hebrew: עודד שרם) was an Israeli-American mathematician known for the invention of the Schramm–Loewner evolution and for working at the intersection of conformal field theory and probability theory.
Schramm was born in Jerusalem in Israel.
He attended Hebrew University where he received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics and computer science in 19...
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Oded Schramm (December 10, 1961 in Jerusalem, Israel – September 1, 2008, Washington State, USA) (Hebrew: עודד שרם) was an Israeli-American mathematician known for the invention of the Schramm–Loewner evolution and for working at the intersection of conformal field theory and probability theory.
Schramm was born in Jerusalem in Israel.
He attended Hebrew University where he received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics and computer science in 1986 and his master's degree in 1987. He then received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1990 under the supervision of William Thurston.
After receiving his doctorate, he worked for two years at the University of California, San Diego, and then had a permanent position at the Weizmann Institute from 1992 to 1999. In 1999 he moved to the Theory Group at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington, where he remained for the rest of his life.
He and his wife had two children.
On September 1, 2008, Schramm fell to his death while solo climbing...
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