Elon Lindenstrauss was awarded the 2010 Fields Medal for his results on measure rigidity in ergodic theory, and their applications to number theory. The web page of the ICM 2010 contains the following brief description of Elon Lindenstrauss’ achievements: Lindenstrauss has made far-reaching advances in ergodic theory, the study of measure preserving transformations. His work on a conjecture of ...