Jacob Tsimerman, born 1988, is a Canadian mathematician. He studied mathematics at the University of Toronto and received his doctorate from Princeton University in 2011, under the supervision of Peter Sarnak. He had a postdoctoral position at Harvard University as a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows. In July 2014, he was awarded a Sloan Fellowship and he started his term as assistant professor at the University of Toronto, where he currently holds the position of full professor. Tsimerman has been awarded the 2023 Ostrowski Prize, the 2022 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize, and the 2015 Sastra Ramanujan Prize.
Tsimerman's work lies at the interface of transcendence theory, analytic number theory, and arithmetic geometry. His accomplishments include proving the André-Oort conjecture, for which he established key results in functional transcendence theory—most notably, the Ax-Schanuel theorem for Hodge structures—and proving the Griffiths conjecture, for which he developed an o-minimal version of the GAGA theorems.
Professional position
- Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto
