Michael Howard Harris (born 1954) is an American mathematician known for his work in number theory.
[4] He has organized or co-organized more than 20 conferences, workshops, and special programs in his field of number theory.
[8] He has developed the theory of coherent cohomology of Shimura varieties and applied it to number theoretic problems on special values of L-functions, Galois representations, and the theta correspondence.
[14][15][16][17] Since 2021, Harris has written the newsletter Silicon Reckoner exploring questions and issues related to the mechanization of mathematics and artificial intelligence.
[21] Harris received the Sophie Germain Prize (2006),[3] the Clay Research Award (joint with Richard Taylor, 2007),[1][22] the Grand Prix Scientifique de la Fondation Simone et Cino del Duca (2009),[3] He is a two-time invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (2002, 2014).