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American mathematician
Michael Jeffrey Larsen is an American
mathematician , a
distinguished professor of mathematics at
Indiana University Bloomington .
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Academic biography
In high school, Larsen tied with four other competitors for the top score in the 1977
International Mathematical Olympiad in
Belgrade , winning a gold medal.
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[4] As an undergraduate mathematics student at
Harvard University , Larsen became a
Putnam Fellow in 1981 and 1983.
[5] He graduated from Harvard in 1984,
[6] and earned his Ph.D. from
Princeton University in 1988, under the supervision of
Gerd Faltings .
[7] After working at the
Institute for Advanced Study he joined the faculty of the
University of Pennsylvania in 1990, and then moved to the
University of Missouri in 1997.
[6] He joined the Indiana University faculty in 2001.
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His wife Ayelet Lindenstrauss is also a mathematician and Indiana University professor.
[8] Their son
Daniel at age 13 became the youngest person to publish a
crossword in the New York Times .
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Research
Larsen is known for his research in
arithmetic algebraic geometry ,
combinatorial group theory ,
combinatorics , and
number theory .
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[2] He has written highly cited papers on
domino tiling of
Aztec diamonds ,
topological
quantum computing ,
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[12] and on the
representation theory of
braid groups .
Awards and honors
In 2013 he became a
fellow of the
American Mathematical Society , for "contributions to group theory, number theory, topology, and algebraic geometry".
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He received the
E. H. Moore Research Article Prize of the AMS in 2013 (jointly with Richard Pink).
Selected publications
Elkies, Noam ;
Kuperberg, Greg ; Larsen, Michael;
Propp, James (1992), "Alternating-sign matrices and domino tilings. I", Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics , 1 (2): 111–132,
arXiv :
math.CO/9201305 ,
doi :
10.1023/A:1022420103267 ,
MR
1226347 ,
S2CID
41082861 .
Freedman, Michael H. ; Larsen, Michael; Wang, Zhenghan (2002a), "A modular functor which is universal for quantum computation", Communications in Mathematical Physics , 227 (3): 605–622,
Bibcode :
2002CMaPh.227..605F ,
doi :
10.1007/s002200200645 ,
MR
1910833 ,
S2CID
8990600 .
Freedman, Michael H. ; Larsen, Michael J.; Wang, Zhenghan (2002b), "The two-eigenvalue problem and density of Jones representation of braid groups", Communications in Mathematical Physics , 228 (1): 177–199,
arXiv :
math/0103200 ,
Bibcode :
2002CMaPh.228..177F ,
doi :
10.1007/s002200200636 ,
MR
1911253 ,
S2CID
8163385 .
Freedman, Michael H. ;
Kitaev, Alexei ; Larsen, Michael J.; Wang, Zhenghan (2003), "Topological quantum computation", Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society , 40 (1): 31–38,
arXiv :
quant-ph/0101025 ,
doi :
10.1090/S0273-0979-02-00964-3 ,
MR
1943131 .
References
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c Dawson, Kate (March 6, 2011),
"IU gives 5 faculty rank of distinguished professor" , Indiana Daily Student .
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Michael J. Larsen , IU News Room, March 30, 2011.
^ Shenker, Israel (July 14, 1977),
"High School Math Wizards Do It by Numbers and U.S. Is No.1" ,
New York Times .
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International Mathematical Olympiad 1977 (Belgrade, Yugoslavia) Individual Scores , Joseph Myers, polyomino.org.uk, retrieved 2012-08-16.
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The Mathematical Association of America's William Lowell Putnam Competition , Mathematical Association of America, retrieved 2012-08-16.
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b
Member biography , Indiana U. Alliance of Distinguished and Titled Professors, retrieved 2012-08-16.
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Michael Jeffrey Larsen at the
Mathematics Genealogy Project
^ Howell, Brittani (February 20, 2017).
"Indiana 7th grader becomes crossword puzzle creator" .
AP News .
^ Shortz, Will (14 Feb 2017).
"The Youngest Crossword Constructor in New York Times History" . The New York Times .
ISSN
0362-4331 . Retrieved 2017-03-25 .
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Freedman, Larsen & Wang (2002a) ;
Freedman et al. (2003) .
^ Klarreich, Erica (February 22, 2003),
"Knotty calculations: a quantum version of braids could lay the groundwork for tomorrow's computers" , Science News .
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2014 Class of the Fellows of the AMS ,
American Mathematical Society , retrieved 2013-11-04.
External links
International National Academics