Joel Spencer
Joel Spencer | |
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| Born | April 20, 1946 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | New York University |
| Doctoral advisor | Andrew Gleason |
| Doctoral students | Peter Dolan, Prasad V. Tetali, Roberto Oliveira, Babu Narayanan, Will Perkins, Juliana Freire, S. Muthukrishnan |
Joel Spencer (born April 20, 1946) is an American mathematician. He is a combinatorialist who has worked on probabilistic methods in combinatorics and on Ramsey theory. He received his doctorate from Harvard University in 1970, under the supervision of Andrew Gleason.[1] He is currently (as of 2015[update]) a professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University.
In 1984 Spencer received a Lester R. Ford Award.[2] In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[3]
Selected publications
- Probabilistic methods in combinatorics, with Paul Erdős, New York: Academic Press, 1974.
- Ramsey theory, with Bruce L. Rothschild and Ronald L. Graham, New York: Wiley, 1980; 2nd ed., 1990.
- Ten lectures on the probabilistic method, Philadelphia: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1987; 2nd ed., 1994.
- The probabilistic method, with Noga Alon, New York: Wiley, 1992; 2nd ed., 2000; 3rd ed., 2008
- The strange logic of random graphs, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2001.
- Asymptopia, with Laura Florescu, American Mathematical Society, 2014.
See also
References
- ^ Joel Spencer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Spencer, Joel (1983). "Large numbers and unprovable theorems". Amer. Math. Monthly. 90: 669–675. doi:10.2307/2323530.
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-07-26.
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