Henry Cohn
Henry Cohn | |
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 Henry Cohn at Oberwolfach, June 2014 Photo by Ivonne Vetter | |
| Alma mater | MIT[2] Harvard |
| Known for | Sphere packing |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Microsoft Research |
| Thesis | New Bounds on Sphere Packings (2000) |
| Doctoral advisor | Noam Elkies[1] |
| Website | https://cohn.mit.edu/ |
Henry Cohn is an American mathematician. He is a principal researcher at Microsoft Research and an adjunct professor at MIT.[2] In collaboration with Abhinav Kumar, Stephen D. Miller, Danylo Radchenko, and Maryna Viazovska, he solved the sphere packing problem in 24 dimensions.[3]
Cohn graduated from Harvard University in 2000 with a doctorate in mathematics.[4] Cohn was an Erdős Lecturer at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2008. In 2016, he became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to discrete mathematics, including applications to computer science and physics."[5]
In 2018, he was awarded the Levi L. Conant Prize for his article “A Conceptual Breakthrough in Sphere Packing,” published in 2017 in the Notices of the AMS.[6]
References
- ^ Henry Cohn at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b "Henry Cohn". Retrieved 14 July 2017.
- ^ Klarreich, Erica (30 March 2016). "Sphere Packing Solved in Higher Dimensions". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
- ^ Henry Cohn | MIT Mathematics
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2017-08-09
- ^ "2018 Levi L. Conant Prize" (PDF). American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
External links
- Klarreich, Erica (2019-05-13). "Out of a Magic Math Function, One Solution to Rule Them All". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved 2019-05-19.
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