Shmuel Agmon is an Israeli

Israel

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 mathematician

Mathematician

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. He is known for his work in analysis

Mathematical analysis

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 and partial differential equations.

Work

Agmon's contributions to partial differential equations include Agmon's method for proving exponential decay of eigenfunctions for elliptic operators.

Awards

Agmon was awarded the 1991 Israel Prize

Israel Prize

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 in mathematics. He received the 2007 EMET Prize

EMET Prize

The Emet Prize for Art, Science and Culture is an annual Israeli prize given for excellence in academic and professional achievements that have far reaching influence and significant contribution to society....

"for paving new paths in the study of partial-elliptical differential equations and their problematic language and for advancing the knowledge in the field, as well as his essential contribution to the development of the Spectral Theory and the Distribution Theory of Schroedinger Operators." He has also received the Weizmann Prize and the Rothschild Prize.