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{{Short description|Indian mathematician (born 1961)}}
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| name = Dinesh Thakur
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| birth_date = 1961
| birth_place = India
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| fields = [[Mathematics]]
| workplaces = [[University of Rochester]]
| alma_mater = [[Harvard University]]
[[University of Bombay]]
| doctoral_advisor = [[John Tate (mathematician)|John Tate]]
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'''Dinesh S. Thakur''' (born 1961) is an Indian [[mathematician]] and a professor of mathematics at [[University of Rochester]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.math.rochester.edu/ |title=Home |website=math.rochester.edu}}</ref> Before moving to Rochester, Thakur was a professor at [[University of Arizona]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://math.arizona.edu/~thakur/ |title=Dinesh S. Thakur |access-date=2013-10-05 |archive-date=2013-11-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105035149/http://math.arizona.edu/~thakur/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> His main research interest is [[number theory]].

== Early life ==
Thakur was born in Mumbai, India. He attended Balmohan Vidyamandir School in Bombay and completed his undergraduate education at Ruia College, [[University of Bombay]]. He got his Ph.D. in 1987 at [[Harvard University]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.math.harvard.edu/dissertations/ |title=Harvard Mathematics Department : Dissertations |website=www.math.harvard.edu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130621015307/http://www.math.harvard.edu/dissertations |archive-date=2013-06-21}}</ref> under the guidance of Professor [[John Tate (mathematician)|John Tate]].<ref>{{MathGenealogy|id=35849}}</ref>

== Career ==
Thakur has spent three and half years at [[Institute for Advanced Study]], Princeton and three years at [[Tata Institute of Fundamental Research]], Bombay. He held positions at [[University of Minnesota]] and [[University of Michigan]]. He moved to [[University of Arizona]] in 1993. He joined [[University of Rochester]] in July
2013. Thakur wrote a research monograph ''Function Field Arithmetic''.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i6ppDQAAQBAJ | title=Function Field Arithmetic | isbn=9789812388391 | last1=Thakur | first1=Dinesh S. | date=2004 | publisher=World Scientific |postscript=; pbk., 368 pages}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://maa.org/press/maa-reviews/function-field-arithmetic |title=Review of ''Function Field Arithmetic'' by Dinesh S. Thakur|author=Gouvêa, Fernando Q.|date=February 5, 2005|website=MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America }}</ref> Thakur has been serving on the editorial boards of ''[[Journal of Number Theory]]'', ''[[International Journal of Number Theory]]'', and ''P-adic Numbers, Ultrametric Analysis and Applications''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.springer.com/mathematics/algebra/journal/12607?detailsPage=editorialBoard|title=P-Adic Numbers, Ultrametric Analysis and Applications}}</ref> Thakur is a founding member of-and for 15 years a participant in-the NSF-funded Southwest Center for Arithmetic Geometry and the Arizona Winter School.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://swc.math.arizona.edu/misc/aboutSWC/index.html|title = Southwest Center for Arithmetic Geometry: About the Southwest Center}}</ref>

He was elected as a member of the 2017 class of [[Fellow]]s of the [[American Mathematical Society]] "for contributions to the arithmetic of function fields, exposition, and service to the mathematical community".<ref>[https://www.ams.org/profession/ams-fellows/new-fellows 2017 Class of the Fellows of the AMS], [[American Mathematical Society]], retrieved 2016-11-06.</ref>

== Work ==
His main work has been in number theory, where he has been instrumental in developing various aspects of function field arithmetic and arithmetic geometry.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://math.arizona.edu/~thakur/indexp.htm |title=Dinesh S. Thakur's Papers |website=math.arizona.edu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080805175605/http://math.arizona.edu/~thakur/indexp.htm |archive-date=2008-08-05}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://noncommutativegeometry.blogspot.com/2009/01/dinesh-thakurs-remarkable-recursion.html|title = Noncommutative Geometry: Dinesh Thakur's remarkable recursion formla [sic]|date = 18 January 2009}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
*[http://www.math.rochester.edu/people/faculty/dthakur2/ Home Page at University of Rochester]
*[http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/5535 Function Field Arithmetic]
*[http://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=35849/ Mathematics Genealogy]
*[http://www.rochester.edu/college/ourfaculty/new1314.html Rochester Faculty]
*[http://www.math.rochester.edu/people/faculty/dthakur2/publ.pdf List of publications]

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