Jonathan Wahl

Last updated

Jonathan Wahl is a mathematician based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. [1]

Wahl received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1971 under the supervision of David Mumford. [2] He earned a B.S. from Yale University in 1965 and M.A. from Yale in 1965. [1]

In 2012, Wahl became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. [3] He is managing editor of the Duke Mathematical Journal.

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Robert Langlands</span> Canadian mathematician

Robert Phelan Langlands, is a Canadian mathematician. He is best known as the founder of the Langlands program, a vast web of conjectures and results connecting representation theory and automorphic forms to the study of Galois groups in number theory, for which he received the 2018 Abel Prize. He was an emeritus professor and occupied Albert Einstein's office at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, until 2020 when he retired.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John Milnor</span> American mathematician

John Willard Milnor is an American mathematician known for his work in differential topology, algebraic K-theory and low-dimensional holomorphic dynamical systems. Milnor is a distinguished professor at Stony Brook University and one of the five mathematicians to have won the Fields Medal, the Wolf Prize, and the Abel Prize.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jacques Hadamard</span> 20th century French mathematician

Jacques Salomon Hadamard was a French mathematician who made major contributions in number theory, complex analysis, differential geometry and partial differential equations.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Judea Pearl</span> Computer scientist (born 1936)

Judea Pearl is an Israeli-American computer scientist and philosopher, best known for championing the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence and the development of Bayesian networks. He is also credited for developing a theory of causal and counterfactual inference based on structural models. In 2011, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) awarded Pearl with the Turing Award, the highest distinction in computer science, "for fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence through the development of a calculus for probabilistic and causal reasoning". He is the author of several books, including the technical Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference, and The Book of Why, a book on causality aimed at the general public.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John G. Thompson</span> American mathematician

John Griggs Thompson is an American mathematician at the University of Florida noted for his work in the field of finite groups. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1970, the Wolf Prize in 1992, and the Abel Prize in 2008.

Jonathan Michael Borwein was a Scottish mathematician who held an appointment as Laureate Professor of mathematics at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He was a close associate of David H. Bailey, and they have been prominent public advocates of experimental mathematics.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jacob T. Schwartz</span> American mathematician

Jacob Theodore "Jack" Schwartz was an American mathematician, computer scientist, and professor of computer science at the New York University Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He was the designer of the SETL programming language and started the NYU Ultracomputer project. He founded the New York University Department of Computer Science, chairing it from 1964 to 1980.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Russell Henry Chittenden</span>

Russell Henry Chittenden was an American physiological chemist. He conducted pioneering research in the biochemistry of digestion and nutrition.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Andrew Casson</span>

Andrew John Casson FRS is a mathematician, studying geometric topology. Casson is the Philip Schuyler Beebe Professor of Mathematics at Yale University.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Roger Evans Howe</span> American mathematician

Roger Evans Howe is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Yale University, and Curtis D. Robert Endowed Chair in Mathematics Education at Texas A&M University. He is known for his contributions to representation theory, in particular for the notion of a reductive dual pair and the Howe correspondence, and his contributions to mathematics education.

James Greig Arthur is a Canadian mathematician working on automorphic forms, and former President of the American Mathematical Society. He is a Mossman Chair and University Professor at the University of Toronto Department of Mathematics.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alex Wilkie</span>

Alex James Wilkie FRS is a British mathematician known for his contributions to model theory and logic. Previously Reader in Mathematical Logic at the University of Oxford, he was appointed to the Fielden Chair of Pure Mathematics at the University of Manchester in 2007.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Linda Keen</span> American mathematician

Linda Jo Goldway Keen is a mathematician and a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. Since 1965, she has been a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Lehman College of The City University of New York and a Professor of Mathematics at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York.

Steven Alan Orszag was an American mathematician.

The mathematician Shmuel Aaron Weinberger is an American topologist. He completed a PhD in mathematics in 1982 at New York University under the direction of Sylvain Cappell. Weinberger was, from 1994 to 1996, the Thomas A. Scott Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania, and he is currently the Andrew MacLeish Professor of Mathematics and chair of the Mathematics department at the University of Chicago.

Jon Lee is an American mathematician and operations researcher, the G. Lawton and Louise G. Johnson Professor of Engineering at the University of Michigan. He is known for his research in nonlinear discrete optimization and combinatorial optimization.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Zeev Rudnick</span> Israeli mathematician

Zeev Rudnick or Ze'ev Rudnick is a mathematician, specializing in number theory and in mathematical physics, notably quantum chaos. Rudnick is a professor at the School of Mathematical Sciences and the Cissie and Aaron Beare Chair in Number Theory at Tel Aviv University.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hee Oh</span> South Korean American mathematician

Hee Oh is a South Korean mathematician who works in dynamical systems. She has made contributions to dynamics and its connections to number theory. She is a student of homogeneous dynamics and has worked extensively on counting and equidistribution for Apollonian circle packings, Sierpinski carpets and Schottky dances. She is currently the Abraham Robinson Professor of Mathematics at Yale University.

Peter Steven Landweber is an American mathematician working in algebraic topology.

Theodore William Gamelin is an American mathematician. He is a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles.

References

  1. 1 2 "Jonathan Wahl". 3 February 2016. Archived from the original on 10 November 2018. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  2. Jonathan Wahl at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. "Fellows of the American Mathematical Society". American Mathematical Society.