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American mathematician
Bjorn Mikhail Poonen (born July 27, 1968, in
Boston , Massachusetts) is a mathematician, four-time
Putnam Competition winner, and a Distinguished Professor in Science in the Department of Mathematics at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology .
[1]
His research is primarily in
arithmetic geometry , but he has occasionally published in other subjects such as
probability
[2] and
computer science .
[3]
He has edited two books.
[4]
[5]
He is the founding managing editor of the journal
Algebra & Number Theory ,
[6] and serves also on the editorial boards of
Involve: A Journal of Mathematics
[7] and the
A K Peters Research Notes in Mathematics book series.
[8]
Education
Poonen is a 1985 alumnus of
Winchester High School in
Winchester, Massachusetts . In 1989, Poonen graduated from
Harvard University with an
A.B. in Mathematics and Physics, summa cum laude. He then studied under
Kenneth Alan Ribet at the
University of California, Berkeley , completing a PhD there in 1994.
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Academic positions
Poonen held postdoctoral positions at
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and
Princeton University and served on the faculty of the
University of California, Berkeley from 1997 to 2008, before moving to
MIT .
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He has also held visiting positions at the
Isaac Newton Institute (1998 and 2005), the
Université Paris-Sud (2001), Harvard (2007), and MIT (2007).
[8]
Major honors and awards
Joseph L. Doob Prize , 2023
[10]
Fellow of the
American Mathematical Society , 2012.
[11]
American Academy of Arts and Sciences : elected in 2012
[12]
Chauvenet Prize : the 2011 winner, for his article "Undecidability in number theory"
[13]
[14]
Miller Research Professorship – University of California Berkeley.
David and Lucile Packard Fellowship
[15]
Sloan Research Fellowship
[16]
William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition : winner in 1985, 1986, 1987, and 1988 (the only other four-time winners since 1938 are
Don Coppersmith ,
Arthur Rubin ,
Ravi D. Vakil ,
Gabriel Carroll ,
Reid W. Barton ,
Daniel Kane and
Brian R. Lawrence ).
[17]
International Mathematical Olympiad : silver medalist in 1985.
[18]
American High School Mathematics Examination : only participant (out of 380,000) to receive a perfect score in 1985.
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Trivia
Poonen co-authored a paper entitled "How to spread rumors fast".
[20]
References
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"Profile" . MIT Mathematics . Retrieved October 14, 2023 .
^ Amir Dembo, Qi-Man Shao, Bjorn Poonen, and Ofer Zeitouni, "Random polynomials with few or no real zeros",
Journal of the American Mathematical Society 15 (2002), 857–892.
^ Poonen, Bjorn (1993). "The Worst Case in Shellsort and Related Algorithms". Journal of Algorithms . 15 (1). Elsevier BV: 101–124.
CiteSeerX
10.1.1.138.295 .
doi :
10.1006/jagm.1993.1032 .
ISSN
0196-6774 .
^ Kedlaya, Kiran S.; Poonen, Bjorn; Vakil, Ravi (March 24, 2011). The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition 1985–2000 . Mathematical Association of America.
ISBN
978-0-88385-827-1 .
^ "Arithmetic of Higher-Dimensional Algebraic Varieties". Progress in Mathematics . Vol. 226. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser Boston. 2004.
doi :
10.1007/978-0-8176-8170-8 .
ISBN
978-1-4612-6471-2 .
ISSN
0743-1643 .
^
"Algebra & Number Theory" . MSP . May 2, 2005. Retrieved October 14, 2023 .
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"Involve" . msp.org . May 2, 2007. Retrieved October 14, 2023 .
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a
b
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Curriculum vitae , retrieved January 28, 2015.
^
Bjorn Poonen at the
Mathematics Genealogy Project
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"Joseph L. Doob Prize" . American Mathematical Society . November 26, 2018. Retrieved October 14, 2023 .
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"Fellows of the American Mathematical Society" . American Mathematical Society . November 26, 2018. Retrieved October 14, 2023 .
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"American Academy of Arts & Sciences" . www.amacad.org . Retrieved October 23, 2016 .
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"Chauvenet Prizes | Mathematical Association of America" . mathdl.maa.org . Retrieved October 23, 2016 .
^ Poonen, Bjorn (March 2008),
"Undecidability in Number Theory" (PDF) , Notices of the American Mathematical Society : 344–350
^
Packard fellows in mathematics
Archived April 15, 2008, at the
Wayback Machine
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Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 45 , no. 6, (June–July 1998), p. 723.
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"Putnam Competition Individual and Team Winners | Mathematical Association of America" . www.maa.org . Retrieved October 23, 2016 .
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"International Mathematical Olympiad" . www.imo-official.org . Retrieved October 23, 2016 .
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American High School Mathematics Examination results , page 31
^ Fan, C. Kenneth; Poonen, Bjorn; Poonen, George (1997). "How to Spread Rumors Fast". Mathematics Magazine . 70 (1). Informa UK Limited: 40–42.
doi :
10.1080/0025570x.1997.11996496 .
ISSN
0025-570X .
External links
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