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===Environment===
===Environment===
According to a 2008 [[Political Courage Test]], Daniel Biss supports carbon emissions limits <ref>http://www.votesmart.org/candidate/political-courage-test/101726/daniel-biss/</ref>. On October 26, 2011, Biss voted nay on a [[Smart Grid]] Technology bill, due to his assertion that it would have created, “rate increases that would not have been adequately reviewed”<ref>http://danielbiss.cm/?page=6</ref>. Biss also stated that the proposed bill would be, “’a good deal for [[Commonwealth Edison|ComEd]] at the consumer’s expense’”<ref>http://winnetka.patch.com/articles/legislators-split-on-effect-of-new-comed-law</ref>. As for the local environment, Biss is a supporter of the [[Great Lakes Compact]], and stated in his 2008 [[Political Courage Test]] that he supports increased funding for open space preservation in Illinois <ref>http://www.votesmart.org/candidate/political-courage-test/101726/daniel-biss/</ref>.
According to a 2008 [[Political Courage Test]], Daniel Biss supports carbon emissions limits <ref>http://www.votesmart.org/candidate/political-courage-test/101726/daniel-biss/</ref>. On October 26, 2011, Biss voted nay on a [[Smart Grid]] Technology bill, due to his assertion that it


===Political Reform===
===Political Reform===

Revision as of 13:10, 21 November 2011

Daniel Biss
Member of the Illinois House of Representatives
from the 17th district
In office
2011 –
Preceded byElizabeth Coulson
Personal details
Born (1977-08-27) August 27, 1977 (age 47)
Akron, Ohio
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseKarin Steinbrueck
Alma materHarvard University
MIT
ProfessionMathematician

Daniel Kálmán Biss (born August 27, 1977) is an American mathematician and State Representative for the 17th district in the Illinois House of Representatives, serving since 2011. The district includes Chicago's northern suburbs, including Evanston, Glencoe, Glenview, Golf, Morton Grove, Northbrook, Northfield, Skokie, Wilmette, and Winnetka.

Personal life, education and mathematical career

Biss was born into a family of musicians, and his brother is the noted pianist Jonathan Biss. Biss attended Bloomington High School North in Bloomington, Indiana, graduating in 1995. He subsequently earned his undergraduate degree at Harvard University, graduating summa cum laude, and his Ph.D. at MIT in 2002, both in mathematics.[1] He won the 1999 Morgan Prize for his outstanding research as an undergraduate, and was a Clay Research Fellow from 2002 to 2007.[2] His doctoral advisor was Michael J. Hopkins.

Prior to running for State Representative, Biss was an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago. He published several papers about Grassmannian manifolds in prestigious journals, including the Annals of Mathematics, that later were discovered to contain a flaw which rendered the proofs invalid. By this point Biss was working on other research areas, and so his collaborator Laura Anderson (who was working on this topic) took charge of fixing the mistake. When the flaw was unable to be corrected Nikolai Mnev, a Russian mathematician who had independently discovered the error and had been corresponding with Anderson (and had previously collaborated with Anderson), publicized the error. In 2008 (by which time he had gone into politics and was no longer a practicing mathematician), Biss issued retractions to the journals, which were subsequently published.[1][3][4]

Biss created and wrote the mathematics for An Abundance of Katherines, a novel by Vlogbrothers creator and author John Green, a friend of Biss.[5][6]

Illinois House of Representatives

Committee assignments

  • Appropriations – Elementary & Secondary Education
  • Personnel & Pensions
  • Consumer Protection
  • Small Business Empowerment & Workforce Development
  • International Trade & Commerce
  • Bio-Technology
  • Appropriations – Higher Education.[7]

Electoral history

Illinois State Representative: Results 2008–2010[8]
Year Democrat Votes Pct Republican Votes Pct
2008 Daniel K. Biss 25,959 49% Elizabeth Coulson 27,540 51%
2010 Daniel K. Biss 23,134 55% Hamilton Chang 19,096 45%

Political views

Environment

According to a 2008 Political Courage Test, Daniel Biss supports carbon emissions limits [9]. On October 26, 2011, Biss voted nay on a Smart Grid Technology bill, due to his assertion that it

Political Reform

Through political reform, Representative Biss favors more strict campaign finance regulation and contribution limits, and an ultimate switch to publicly funded political campaigns [10]. Biss also supports simple explanations of bills and other current legislative works, as well as creating searchable data on government effectiveness [11].

Choice

According to the Political Courage Test that Representative Biss filled out in 2008, Biss is pro-choice, supporting legal abortion [12] and the reproductive freedoms of women [13]. In addition, Biss supports age appropriate sex education in all Illinois schools, along with support programs for at-risk youth. This choice platform is endorsed by the Personal PAC, a bi-partisan political action committee which contributes to pro-choice local office candidates in Illinois [14] as well as Planned Parenthood Illinois action.

Education

Biss stands in support of training teachers in their subject of teaching and according to a 2008 Political Courage Test, supports allowing illegal immigrant high school graduates to pay in-state tuition at public universities, as well as state funding to raise the salaries of teachers [15]. On May 30, 2011, Biss voted yea on a bill to establish the DREAM Fund Commission, which provides scholarship opportunities to students whose parents are immigrants to the United States [16].

State Senate campaign

On November 10, 2011, Biss announced his intent to run for the Illinois Senate seat, currently held by retiring Senator Jeffrey Schoenberg.[17].

Selected works

  • Biss, Daniel K. (2003). "Oriented matroids, complex manifolds, and a combinatorial model for BU". Advances in Mathematics. 179 (2): 250–290. doi:10.1016/S0001-8708(02)00076-2. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
See also Biss, Daniel K. (2009). "Erratum to "Oriented matroids, complex manifolds, and a combinatorial model for BU" [Adv. Math. 179 (2) (2003) 250–290]". Advances in Mathematics. 221 (2): 681. doi:10.1016/j.aim.2008.12.012. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
See also Biss, Daniel K. (2009). "Erratum to "The homotopy type of the matroid Grassmannian"". Annals of Mathematics. 170: 493. doi:10.4007/annals.2009.170.493. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
See also Mnev, N. (2007). "On D.K. Biss' papers "The homotopy type of the matroid Grassmannian" and "Oriented matroids, complex manifolds, and a combinatorial model for BU"". arXiv:0709.1291 [math.CO].

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Szpiro, George G. (2010). "20: Brilliant but Fallible". A mathematical medley: fifty easy pieces on mathematics. American Mathematical Society. pp. 97–99. {{cite book}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ Daniel Biss, Clay Mathematics Institute
  3. ^ Comment by Laura Anderson on September 21, 2007 to Chicago Reader article "John Edwards and -- Daniel Biss?" -- Anderson's account of the events
  4. ^ Error were discovered variously between 2005 (Anderson) and April 2006 (Mnev), Mnev posted September 2007, Biss submitted errata November 2008 (Annals) and December 2008 (Advances), which were published July 2009 (Annals) and March 2009 (Advances)
  5. ^ Nir, Oaz (2008). "Book Review: An Abundance of Katherines" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 55 (9). American Mathematical Society: 1096–98. Retrieved 8 June 2011.
  6. ^ Green, John (2006). An Abundance of Katherines. Dutton. ISBN 0525476881.
  7. ^ "Representative Daniel Biss (D)". www.ilga.gov. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
  8. ^ "Election Results". Cook County Board of Elections. Retrieved February 22, 2011.
  9. ^ http://www.votesmart.org/candidate/political-courage-test/101726/daniel-biss/
  10. ^ htpp://danielbiss.com/issues
  11. ^ http:/danielbiss.com/issues
  12. ^ http://www.votesmart.org/candidate/political-courage-test/101726/daniel-biss/
  13. ^ http://www.votesmart.org/candidate/political-courage-test/101726/daniel-biss
  14. ^ http://www.personalpac.org/
  15. ^ http://www.votesmart.org/candidate/political-courage-test/101726/daniel-biss/
  16. ^ http://appointment.illinois.gov/appointmentsDetail.cfm?id=417
  17. ^ http://www.dailynorthwestern.com/city/state-rep-biss-to-seek-schoenberg-s-senate-seat-1.2669291

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