Doctoral advisor Dennis Sullivan Fields Mathematics | Role Professor of mathematics Name Curtis McMullen | |
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Born May 21, 1958 (age 65)
Berkeley, California ( 1958-05-21 ) Institutions Harvard
MIT
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton
Berkeley Alma mater Harvard University
Williams College Thesis Families of Rational Maps and Iterative Root-Finding Algorithms (1985) Doctoral students Laura DeMarco
Jeremy Kahn
Maryam Mirzakhani Known for Complex dynamics, hyperbolic geometry, Teichmuller theory Books Complex Dynamics and Renormalization, Renormalization and 3-manifolds which Fiber Over the Circle Awards Fields Medal, Salem Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada Education Harvard University (1985), Williams College (1980) Similar People Maryam Mirzakhani, Dennis Sullivan, John Charles Fields, Richard Borcherds, Maxim Kontsevich | ||
Notable students Maryam Mirzakhani | ||
Curtis t mcmullen coupled rotations and snow falling on cedars
Curtis Tracy McMullen (born May 21, 1958) is an American mathematician who is Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1998 for his work in complex dynamics, hyperbolic geometry and Teichmüller theory.
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- Curtis t mcmullen coupled rotations and snow falling on cedars
- Biography
- Honors and awards
- Trivia
- Works
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Biography
McMullen graduated as valedictorian in 1980 from Williams College and obtained his Ph.D. in 1985 from Harvard University, supervised by Dennis Sullivan. He held post-doctoral positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, and the Institute for Advanced Study, after which he was on the faculty at Princeton University (1987–1990) and the University of California, Berkeley (1990–1997), before joining Harvard in 1997.
Honors and awards
McMullen received the Salem Prize in 1991 and won the Fields Medal in 1998. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2007 and in 2012 became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Trivia
McMullen has given a proof that backgammon ends with probability one.