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Don Bernard Zagier is an American mathematician whose main area of work is number theory. He was born in Heidelberg, West Germany.

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His mother was a psychiatrist, and his father was the dean of instruction at the American College of Switzerland. His father held five different citizenships, and he spent his youth living in many different countries. After finishing high school and attending Winchester College for a year, he studied for three years at M. He then wrote a doctoral dissertation on characteristic classes under Friedrich Hirzebruch at Bonn, receiving his PhD at He received his Habilitation at the age of 23, and was named professor at the age of He collaborated with Hirzebruch in work on Hilbert modular surfaces.

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