Bernard Dwork

Bernard Dwork
Born(1923-05-27)May 27, 1923
New York City, US
DiedMay 9, 1998(1998-05-09) (aged 74)
EducationColumbia University
Known forDwork conjecture
Dwork family
Dwork's lemma
Dwork's method
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (1964)
Cole Prize (1962)
ICM Speaker (1962)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
WorkplacesJohns Hopkins University
Princeton University
Emil Artin
John Tate
Doctoral students
Stefan Burr
Nick Katz

Bernard Morris Dwork (May 27, 1923 – May 9, 1998) was an American mathematician, known for his application of p-adic analysis to local zeta functions, and in particular for a proof of the first part of the Weil conjectures: the rationality of the zeta function of a variety over a finite field. The general theme of Dwork's research was p-adic cohomology and p-adic differential equations. He published two papers under the pseudonym Maurizio Boyarsky.