His mother was a psychiatrist, and his father was the dean of instruction at the American College of Switzerland.
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After finishing high school (at age 13) and attending Winchester College for a year, he studied for three years at M.I.T., completing his bachelor's and master's degrees and being named a Putnam Fellow in 1967 at the age of 16.
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He is currently one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany, and a professor at the Collège de France in Paris, France.
In mathematics, the Herglotz–Zagier function, named after Gustav Herglotz and Don Zagier, is the function
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