Benjamin Weiss

Benjamin Weiss is an Israeli mathematician known for formulating the road coloring conjecture with Roy Adler, for coining the names of sofic groups and sofic subshifts, and for his work with Matthew Foreman and Daniel Rudolph on measure preserving transformations.

Weiss earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1965, under the supervision of William Feller.[1] He is a professor emeritus of mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,[2] where Elon Lindenstrauss was one of his students.[1] In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Benjamin Weiss at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ↑ Professors emeriti, Einstein Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, retrieved 2013-09-01.
  3. ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-09-01.


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