Alexander Smith (mathematician)

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Alexander Smith is an American mathematician and (since 2025) assistant professor at Northwestern University. Specializing in number theory, Smith is renowned in particular for his work on arithmetic statistics. [1]

Smith was an undergraduate student at Princeton University and he received his doctorate degree in 2020 from Harvard University under the supervision of Noam Elkies and Mark Kisin. [2] Beginning in 2021, he was a postdoctoral Clay Research Fellow at Stanford and UCLA. [3] In 2019, Smith won the inaugural David Goss Prize, [4] and in October 2025, it was announced that he is to be awarded the 2025 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize. [5]

References

  1. ↑ Hartnett, Kevin (November 7, 2018). "New Proof Shows Infinite Curves Come in Two Types". Quanta Magazine . Retrieved 2026-02-01.
  2. ↑ Alexander Smith at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ "Alexander Smith". Clay Mathematics Institute. Retrieved 2025-10-07.
  4. ↑ Goldfeld, Dorian; Munao, Simone (December 2019). "Alexander Smith Wins the First David Goss Prize in Number Theory" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 66 (11): 1875–1878.
  5. ↑ Garvan, Frank (2025-10-05). "2025 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize". Department of Mathematics. Retrieved 2025-10-07.
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