2026 Charles Fefferman: Mathematics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mathematics	63	434	361	227	176	230	23429

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Research.com Recognitions

2017 - Wolf Prize in Mathematics for his contributions in a number of mathematical areas including complex multivariate analysis, partial differential equations and sub-elliptical problems.
1979 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
1978 - Fields Medal of International Mathematical Union (IMU) Contributed several innovations that revised the study of multidimensional complex analysis by finding correct generalizations of classical (low-dimensional) results.
1972 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1970 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Charles Fefferman is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States and has made contributions primarily in the field of Mathematics. Their research spans several subfields including Mathematical Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Control and Systems Engineering, Computational Theory and Mathematics, and Statistics and Probability.

The scientist's work broadly covers topics such as Numerical Methods in Inverse Problems, Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates, Quantum and Electron Transport Phenomena, Machine Learning and Algorithms, Advanced Bandit Algorithms Research, Advanced Control Systems Optimization, and Topological and Geometric Data Analysis.

Frequent collaborators include Matti Lassas, Hariharan Narayanan, Michael I. Weinstein, Arie Israel, and Sergei Ivanov.

Charles Fefferman's recent papers include:

Fitting a manifold of large reach to noisy data, 2023, Journal of Topology and Analysis
Reconstruction of a Riemannian Manifold from Noisy Intrinsic Distances, 2020, SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science
Quantum tunneling and its absence in deep wells and strong magnetic fields, 2025, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
$C^{m}$ semialgebraic sections over the plane, 2022, Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan
Louis Nirenberg (1925-2020), 2021, Notices of the American Mathematical Society

Publication venues where Fefferman has frequently published include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Notices of the American Mathematical Society
Revista Matemática Iberoamericana
Journal of Topology and Analysis
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The scientist has contributed a book titled Fitting Smooth Functions to Data, published by the American Mathematical Society in 2020.

Throughout their career, Charles Fefferman has received several distinctions, including:

Wolf Prize in Mathematics, 2017, for contributions in complex multivariate analysis, partial differential equations, and sub-elliptical problems
Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 1979
Fields Medal from the International Mathematical Union, 1978, for innovations revising multidimensional complex analysis
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1972
Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1970

Best Publications

H p spaces of several variables

C. Fefferman;C. Fefferman;E. M. Stein;E. M. Stein

4336
Citations
Weighted norm inequalities for maximal functions and singular integrals

R. R. Coifman;C. Fefferman

1495
Citations
Some Maximal Inequalities

C. Fefferman;E. M. Stein

1313
Citations
The Bergman kernel and biholomorphic mappings of pseudoconvex domains

Charles Louis Fefferman

1052
Citations
Inequalities for strongly singular convolution operators

Charles Fefferman

861
Citations
the uncertainty principle

Charles L. Fefferman

749
Citations
Nodal sets of eigenfunctions on Riemannian manifolds.

Harold Donnelly;Charles Louis Fefferman

679
Citations
The Multiplier Problem for the Ball

Charles Fefferman

592
Citations
Monge-Ampere equations, the Bergman kernel, and geometry of pseudoconvex domains*

Charles L. Fefferman

547
Citations
The Ambient Metric

Charles Louis Fefferman;C. Robin Graham

524
Citations
Characterizations of bounded mean oscillation

Charles Fefferman

475
Citations
Wave packets and fourier integral operators

Antonio Córdoba;Charles Fefferman

397
Citations
Pointwise Convergence of Fourier Series

Charles Fefferman

395
Citations
Geometric constraints on potentially singular solutions for the 3-D Euler equations

Peter Constantin;Charles Fefferman;Andrew J. Majda

371
Citations
A note on spherical summation multipliers

Charles Fefferman

350
Citations
C., L^2 cohomology and index theorem for the Bergman metric

Harold Donnelly;Charles Fefferman

276
Citations
Honeycomb lattice potentials and Dirac points

Charles Louis Fefferman;Michael I. Weinstein

262
Citations
Parabolic invariant theory in complex analysis

Charles Fefferman

241
Citations
Can one learn history from the allelic spectrum

Simon Myers;Charles Louis Fefferman;Nick Patterson

221
Citations
Higher order commutator estimates and local existence for the non-resistive MHD equations and related models

Charles L. Fefferman;David S. McCormick;James C. Robinson;Jose L. Rodrigo

217
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Diego Córdoba Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Michael I. Weinstein Columbia University

Duong H. Phong Columbia University

Elias M. Stein Princeton University

Jürg Fröhlich ETH Zurich

János Kollár Princeton University

Matti Lassas University of Helsinki

Rafael de la Llave Georgia Institute of Technology

Stephen Wainger University of Wisconsin–Madison

Edriss S. Titi Texas A&M University

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