Jeremy Adam Kahn (born October 26, 1969) is an American mathematician. He works on
hyperbolic geometry
In mathematics, hyperbolic geometry (also called Lobachevskian geometry or János Bolyai, Bolyai–Nikolai Lobachevsky, Lobachevskian geometry) is a non-Euclidean geometry. The parallel postulate of Euclidean geometry is replaced with:
:For a ...
,
Riemann surface
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s and
complex dynamics
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.
Education
Kahn grew up in
New York City
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and attended
Hunter College High School
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. He was a
child prodigy
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who mastered
quadratic equations
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ax^2 + bx + c = 0\,,
where the variable (mathematics), variable represents an unknown number, and , , and represent known numbers, where . (If and ...
at the age of 7, at the age of 8 designed an equation identical to the one
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designed at the age of 9, and proved the Pythagorean Theorem at the age of 10.
Kahn was part of the
Johns Hopkins University
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Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth
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longitudinal cohort. At the age of 11, he scored a 780 out of a possible 800 on the math portion of the
SAT-I exam.
At the age of 13, he became the youngest person ever to make the United States
International Mathematical Olympiad
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team He participated in the Olympiad four times, winning silver medals in 1983 and 1984, and gold medals in 1985 and 1986.
On the basis of his success in the
Putnam competition
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, he became a Putnam Fellow in 1988. He received a bachelor's degree in mathematics at
Harvard University
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, then received his Ph.D. from the
University of California, Berkeley
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in 1995 under
Curtis McMullen
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with the thesis ''Holomorphic removability of quadratic polynomial Julia sets''.
Career
Kahn was assistant professor at the
California Institute of Technology
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from 1995 to 1998 and was later a postdoc at the
University of Toronto
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. After that, he worked for the investment firm
Highbridge Capital Management
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as an analyst in
financial mathematics
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In general, there exist two separate ...
. He was a postdoc and later assistant professor at the
Stony Brook University
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. He is currently a professor of mathematics at
Brown University
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.
In 2012, Kahn and
Vladimir Markovic
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received the
Clay Research Award
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for their research on
hyperbolic geometry
In mathematics, hyperbolic geometry (also called Lobachevskian geometry or János Bolyai, Bolyai–Nikolai Lobachevsky, Lobachevskian geometry) is a non-Euclidean geometry. The parallel postulate of Euclidean geometry is replaced with:
:For a ...
, specifically, for their result on immersions into a closed hyperbolic 3-manifold (proof of the
surface subgroup conjecture
In mathematics, the surface subgroup conjecture of Friedhelm Waldhausen states that the fundamental group of every closed manifold, closed, irreducible manifold, irreducible 3-manifold with infinite fundamental group has a surface subgroup. By "su ...
) and for their proof of the
Ehrenpreis conjecture
In mathematics, the Ehrenpreis conjecture of Leon Ehrenpreis states that for any ''K'' greater than 1, any two closed Riemann surfaces of genus at least 2 have finite-degree covers which are ''K''- quasiconformal: that is, the covers are arbitra ...
.
In 2014 he was an
invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians
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in
Seoul
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and gave a talk called "The Surface Subgroup and the Ehrenpreis Conjectures".
Selected publications
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References
External links
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20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Dynamical systems theorists
Harvard University alumni
Hunter College High School alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
California Institute of Technology faculty
Stony Brook University faculty
Brown University faculty
1969 births
Living people
Putnam Fellows