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Nationality
  
American

Role
  
Mathematician

Name
  
Joel Spencer

Alma mater
  
Harvard University

Fields
  
Mathematics

Institutions
  
New York University

Education
  
Harvard University


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Born
  
April 20, 1946 (age 78) (
1946-04-20
)

Doctoral students
  
Peter Dolan, Prasad V. Tetali, Roberto Oliviera, Babu Narayanan, Will Perkins, Juliana Friere, S. Muthukrishnan

Books
  
The Probabilistic Method, Ten Lectures on the Pr, The Strange Logic of, Asymptopia

Similar People
  
Noga Alon, Paul Erdos, Andrew M Gleason

Notable students
  
Prasad V. Tetali

Doctoral advisor
  
Andrew M. Gleason

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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. He is currently (as of 2015) a professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University.

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In 1984 Spencer received a Lester R. Ford Award. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He was elected as a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2017, "for contributions to discrete mathematics and theory of computing, particularly random graphs and networks, Ramsey theory, logic, and randomized algorithms".

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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 strange logic of random graphs, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2001.
  • The probabilistic method, with Noga Alon, New York: Wiley, 1992; 2nd ed., 2000; 3rd ed., 2008.
  • Deterministic random walks on regular trees, American Mathematical Society, New York, 2008.
  • Asymptopia, with Laura Florescu, American Mathematical Society, 2014.

    • References

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