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Aner Shalev

Aner Shalev is an Israeli mathematician and writer, a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem whose research centers on group theory.

born 1958Research in group theoryProbabilistic methods for finite groupsProof of the Ore conjectureFiction with experimental structure

Born: 24 January 1958, Israel
Occupation: mathematician, writer
Education: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Aner Shalev was born in 1958 in Israel

Aner Shalev was born on 24 January 1958 in Kibbutz Kinneret. His parents were the literary critic Mordechai Shalev and the painter Rika Shalev. He grew up in Beit Berl, and his sister is the author Zeruya Shalev.

At 18 he moved to Jerusalem to study at the Hebrew University. He earned a master's degree at Tel Aviv University and a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University in 1989. His doctoral work, supervised by Shimshon Amitsur and Avinoam Mann, dealt with group rings.

After postdoctoral work at Oxford and London, he returned to Israel in 1992 as a senior lecturer at the Hebrew University and became a full professor in 1996. From 1995 he worked on probabilistic methods in group theory, often with Martin Liebeck. With Liebeck, O'Brien and Tiep he proved the Ore conjecture from 1951.

He is a joint editor of several mathematics journals and received an ERC Advanced Grant. He also writes fiction with unusual forms and has published 4 books. He is married to Donna Shalev, and they have 2 daughters.

Milestones in Aner Shalev's life

1958
Born in Kibbutz Kinneret.
1983
Won the Rothschild Fellowship for young researchers.
1989
Received a Ph.D. in mathematics from the Hebrew University.
1992
Became a senior lecturer at the Hebrew University.
1996
Was appointed full professor.
1998
Gave an invited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.
2008
Proved the Ore conjecture with Liebeck, O'Brien and Tiep.