Joseph Silverman received an
Sc.B. from Brown University in 1977 and a
Ph.D. from
Harvard University in 1982 under the direction of
John Tate. He taught at
M.I.T. (1982–1986) and at
Boston University (1986–1988) before taking a position at Brown in 1988.[3]
Silverman has published more than 100 research articles, written or coauthored six books, and edited three conference proceedings; his work has been cited more than 5000 times, by over 2000 distinct authors.[4] He currently serves on the editorial boards of
Algebra and Number Theory and
New York Journal of Mathematics.[5][6]
Silverman has written two graduate texts on elliptic curves, The Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves (1986) and Advanced Topics in the Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves (1994). For these two books he received a
Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition from the
American Mathematical Society, which cited them by saying that “Silverman's volumes have become standard references on one of the most exciting areas of algebraic geometry and number theory.” Silverman has also written three undergraduate texts: Rational Points on Elliptic Curves (1992, co-authored with
John Tate), A Friendly Introduction to Number Theory (3rd ed. 2005), and An Introduction to Mathematical Cryptography (2008, co-authored with
Jeffrey Hoffstein and
Jill Pipher). Additional graduate-level texts authored by Silverman are Diophantine Geometry: An Introduction (2000, co-authored with
Marc Hindry) and The Arithmetic of Dynamical Systems (2007).
Publications
———; Hindry, M. (23 March 2000), Diophantine geometry: An introduction, Springer,
ISBN0-387-98981-1.[8]