Noam Elkies | |
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Born | New York City, US | August 25, 1966
Alma mater | Columbia University, B.S. (1985)
Harvard University, Ph.D. (1987) |
Awards | Putnam Fellow Lester R. Ford Award (2004) Levi L. Conant Prize (2004) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Harvard University |
Thesis | Supersingular primes of a given elliptic curve over a number field (1987) |
Doctoral advisor | Benedict Gross Barry Mazur |
Doctoral students | Henry Cohn[1] |
Noam David Elkies (born August 25, 1966) is a professor of mathematics at Harvard University. At age 26, he became the youngest professor to receive tenure at Harvard. He is also a pianist,[2] chess national master, and chess composer.