Role Professor of mathematics Name Curtis McMullen | ||
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Institutions HarvardMITMathematical Sciences Research InstituteInstitute for Advanced StudyPrincetonBerkeley Alma mater Harvard UniversityWilliams College Thesis Families of Rational Maps and Iterative Root-Finding Algorithms (1985) Doctoral students Laura DeMarcoJeremy KahnMaryam Mirzakhani Books Complex Dynamics and Renormalization, Renormalization and 3-manifolds which Fiber Over the Circle 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
- Planes in number theory geometry and dynamics C McMullen
- Biography
- Honors and awards
- Trivia
- Works
- References
Planes in number theory, geometry and dynamics: C. McMullen
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.