| Edward Bierstone | |
| Birth Place: | 21 December 1946 |
| Citizenship: | Canadian |
| Fields: | Mathematics |
| Workplaces: | University of Toronto, Fields Institute |
| Alma Mater: | Brandeis University |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Richard Sheldon Palais |
| Awards: | Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada 1992, Jeffery–Williams Prize 2005, Fellow of American Mathematical Society, 2012 |
Edward Bierstone (born 21 December 1946) is a Canadian mathematician at the University of Toronto who specializes in singularity theory, analytic geometry, and differential analysis.
He received his B.Sc. from the University of Toronto and his Ph.D. at Brandeis University in 1972. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in the summer of 1973.[1] He served as the Director of the Fields Institute from 2009 to 2013.[2]
Bierstone was elected a member of the Royal Society of Canada in 1992 and, together with Pierre Milman, received the Jefferey Williams Prize in 2005. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[3] In 2018 the Canadian Mathematical Society listed him in their inaugural class of fellows.