Ted Hill (mathematician)

Theodore P. ( Ted ) Hill ( born December 28, 1943) is an American mathematician.

After studying Engineering Science at the United States Military Academy at West Point, Business Mathematics ( Operations Research ) at Stanford University and mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, he was in 1977 in Berkeley for Ph.D. doctorate in mathematics. Then, until his retirement in 2003, he worked as a mathematics professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In addition, he has held visiting professorships in America and Europe, including at the University of Göttingen in the winter semester 1988/89.

His main scientific activities are optimization problems. He was also instrumental in the development of the Benford law, to make it usable for the detection of economic crime, such as fraud and embezzlement in business and tax evasion.