George Lusztig (bornGheorghe Lusztig; May 20, 1946) is a Romanian-born American mathematician andAbdun Nur Professor at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was aNorbert Wiener Professor in theDepartment of Mathematics from 1999 to 2009.

Born inTimișoara to aHungarian-Jewish family,^[1] he did his undergraduate studies at theUniversity of Bucharest, graduating in 1968. Later that year he left Romania for the United Kingdom, where he spent several months at theUniversity of Warwick andOxford University. In 1969 he moved to the United States, where he went to work for two years withMichael Atiyah at theInstitute for Advanced Study inPrinceton, New Jersey. He received his PhD in mathematics in 1971 after completing a doctoral dissertation, titled "Novikov's higher signature and families ofelliptic operators", under the supervision ofWilliam Browder andMichael Atiyah.^[2][3]

Lusztig worked for almost seven years at theUniversity of Warwick. His involvement at the university encompassed a Research Fellowship, (1971–72); lecturer in Mathematics, (1972–74); and Professor of Mathematics, (1974–78). In 1978, he accepted a chair at MIT.^[4][1]

He is known for his work onrepresentation theory, in particular for the objects closely related toalgebraic groups, such asfinite reductive groups,Hecke algebras,${\displaystyle p}$-adic groups,quantum groups, andWeyl groups. He essentially paved the way for modern representation theory. This has included fundamental new concepts, including the character sheaves, theDeligne–Lusztig varieties, and theKazhdan–Lusztig polynomials.^[5]

In 1983, Lusztig was elected as a fellow of theRoyal Society.^[4] In 1985 Lusztig won theCole Prize (Algebra). He was elected to theNational Academy of Sciences in 1992. He received theBrouwer Medal in 1999, theNational Order of Faithful Service in 2003 and theLeroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Mathematics in 2008. In 2012, he became a fellow of theAmerican Mathematical Society^[6] and in 2014 he received theShaw Prize in Mathematics.^[7] In 2022, he received theWolf Prize in Mathematics.^[8] In 2025, he received theBasic Science Lifetime Award.

• George Lusztig's results atInternational Mathematical Olympiad
• George Lusztig's entry in theInternational Who's Who.
• 專訪 George Lusztig 教授 (Interview with Prof. George Lusztig, in Chinese)Archived 8 February 2023 at theWayback Machine in 數學傳播.

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