Jacob Fox
Jacob Fox | |
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Born | 1984 (age 36–37) |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Princeton University MIT |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Stanford University |
Doctoral advisor | Benny Sudakov |
Jacob Fox (born Jacob Licht in 1984) is an American mathematician. He is a professor at Stanford University. His research interests are in Hungarian-style combinatorics, particularly Ramsey theory, extremal graph theory, combinatorial number theory, and probabilistic methods in combinatorics.
Fox grew up in West Hartford, Connecticut and attended Hall High School. As a senior he won second place overall and first place in his category in the annual Intel Science Talent Search,[1] also winning the Karl Menger Memorial Prize of the American Mathematical Society for his project. The project was titled "Rainbow Ramsey Theory: Rainbow Arithmetic Progressions and Anti-Ramsey Results"[2] and was based on a research project he did at a six-week summer camp in mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT);[3] he also participated in an earlier high school mathematics program at Ohio State University.[4]
Fox became an undergraduate at MIT, and was awarded the 2006 Morgan Prize for several research publications in combinatorics.[4]
Fox completed his Ph.D. in 2010 from Princeton University; his dissertation, supervised by Benny Sudakov, was titled Ramsey Numbers.[5]
After working in the mathematics department at MIT from 2010 to 2014, he joined the faculty of Stanford University in 2015.[6]
In 2010, Fox was awarded the Dénes Kőnig Prize, an early-career award of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Activity Group on Discrete Mathematics.[7] He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014.[8] He was awarded the Oberwolfach Prize in 2016.[9]
References[]
- ^ Intel STS 2002, retrieved 2017-12-09
- ^ Goldstein, Gisele (September 2002), "AMS Menger Prizes at the 2002 ISEF" (PDF), Mathematics People, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 49 (8): 940
- ^ "High-schoolers face off in national sci-tech contest at MIT", MIT News, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, November 7, 2001
- ^ Jump up to: a b "2005 Morgan Prize" (PDF), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 53 (4): 479–480, April 2006
- ^ Jacob Fox at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Curriculum vitae (PDF), February 2015, retrieved 2017-12-09
- ^ Alumnus Jacob Fox Wins the Konig Prize, Society for Science & the Public, August 23, 2010, retrieved 2017-12-09
- ^ Invited section lectures, ICM 2014, retrieved 2017-12-09
- ^ Oberwolfach Prize 2016 for Junior Mathematicians, retrieved 2018-02-11
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- 21st-century American mathematicians
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- People from West Hartford, Connecticut
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