J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr.

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Jesse Ernest Wilkins Jr. (born November 27, 1923 in Chicago,Illinois) is an African American mathematician who gained notoriety for entering the University of Chicago at age 13 in 1936. He completed a B.S. in mathematics in 1940 at 17. Then he went on to complete a Ph.D in mathematics at the University of Chicago just two years later in 1942, at age 19. Throughout the years of his work, Wilkins published more than 100 papers on a variety of subjects, including differential geometry, linear differential equations, integrals, nuclear engineering,and optics. Wilkins currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia working as a Distinguished Professor of applied mathematics and mathematical physics at Clark Atlanta University.

His father Jesse Ernest Wilkins Sr. was appointed as Assistant Secretary of Labor by Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1954.

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