Joseph H. Silverman

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Joseph H. Silverman is currently a professor of mathematics at Brown University, where he has taught since 1988. Joseph Silverman received a Sc.B. from Brown University in 1977 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1982 under John Tate.

Silverman's work has been in number theory mostly in the fields of elliptic curves and cryptography. He has published over 100 articles in mathematics (See his CV for a complete list (pdf format)).

In 1996, Silverman, along with Jeffrey Hoffstein, Jill Pipher and Daniel Lieman founded NTRU Cryptosystems, Inc., to market their cryptographic algorithms, NTRUEncrypt and NTRUSign. Silverman remains a co-VP of NTRU Cryptosystems.

In addition to his distinguished research career, Joseph Silverman has maintained an excellent standing as a teacher. He is often praised by his students for his clarity and skill as a lecturer. Student reviews of some of the classes he has taught are available in Brown University's Critical Review.

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Silverman's book The Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves (ISBN 0-387-96203-4) is a highly regarded introduction to the subject. He has written two other books on the topic: Rational Points on Elliptic Curves (ISBN 0-387-97825-9), (co-authored with John Tate), a slightly more basic approach to the material, and Advanced Topics in the Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves (ISBN 0-387-94328-5).

He has also authored A Friendly Introduction to Modern Number Theory (ISBN 0-13-186137-9) and co-authored Modular Forms and Fermat's Last Theorem (ISBN 0-387-98998-6) and Diophantine Geometry, An Introduction (ISBN 0-387-98981-1)