Jordan Ellenberg

Stuart Jordan Ellenberg ( * 1971 in Potomac ( Maryland)) is an American mathematician who deals with arithmetic algebraic geometry and number theory.

His father Jonas Ellenberg is a professor of biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania and his mother Susan Ellenberg is also a statistician. Ellenberg grew up in Potomac and twice received the Gold Medal (1987, 1989) at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1989 and the first prize. He studied at least one year creative writing at Johns Hopkins University. He was twice Putnam Fellow and was named after the bachelor's degree in 1993 (summa cum laude) in 1998 from Harvard University with a doctorate Barry Mazur ( Hilbert modular forms and the Galois representations associated to Hilbert -Blumenthal abelian varieties ). After that, he was instructor and at Princeton University from 2001 Assistant Professor. He was Assistant Professor, in 2007 Associate Professor and in 2011 Professor at the University of Wisconsin in 2005.

With Akshay Venkatesh, he turned to methods of ergodic theory to the question of the representation of integral quadratic forms by those with fewer variables and rejected the validity of a local-global principle (in the sense of Helmut Hasse ) to.

In 2010, he was with Venkatesh Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad (Statistics of number fields and function fields ). In 2012 he became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

He published a popular book on mathematics in everyday life, writing about mathematics, for example, in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Wired, and The New York Times Book Review and has a blog (also on mathematics ) Quomodocumque.

He is married to psychologist Tanya mud and has two children. He published a novel ( The Grasshopper King, Coffee House Press 2003 ).

Writings

• How not to be wrong, Penguin 2004
• Serre 's conjecture over F9, Annals of Mathematics, 161, 2005 1111-1142
• With Venkatesh: The number of extensions of a number field with fixed degree and bounded discriminant, Annals of Mathematics, 163, 2006, 723-741
• Article Arithmetic algebraic geometry and Elliptic Curves in Timothy Gowers, inter alia, The Princeton Companion to Mathematics, Princeton University Press 2008