Joel Spencer
Joel Spencer (born April 20, 1946) is an American mathematician. He is a combinatorialist who has worked on probabilistic methods in combinatorics and on Ramsey theory. He received his doctorate from Harvard University in 1970, under the supervision of Andrew Gleason.[1] He is currently (as of 2010[update]) a professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University.
Selected publications
- Probabilistic methods in combinatorics, with Paul Erdős, New York: Academic Press, 1974.
- Ramsey theory, with Bruce L. Rothschild and Ronald L. Graham, New York: Wiley, 1980; 2nd ed., 1990.
- Ten lectures on the probabilistic method, Philadelphia: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1987; 2nd ed., 1994.
- The probabilistic method, with Noga Alon, New York: Wiley, 1992; 2nd ed., 2000; 3rd ed., 2008
- The strange logic of random graphs, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2001.
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