Kiran Kedlaya

Kiran Kedlaya
Born July 1974 (age 37)
Silver Spring, Maryland
Nationality  American
Fields Mathematics
Institutions MIT
Alma mater MIT (Ph.D. 2000)
Princeton (M.A. 1997)
Harvard (B.A. 1996)
Doctoral advisor Aise Johan de Jong

Kiran Sridhara Kedlaya (English: /ˈkɪrən ˈʃriːdər kɛdˈlɑːjə/;[1] born July 1974) is an Indian American mathematician. He currently is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

At age 16, Kedlaya won a gold medal at the International Mathematics Olympiad,[2] and would later win a silver and another gold medal. While an undergraduate student at Harvard, he was a three-time Putnam Fellow. A 1996 article by The Harvard Crimson described him as "the best college-age student in math in the United States".[3]

Kedlaya was runner-up for the 1996 Morgan Prize, for a paper[4] in which he substantially improved on results of Babai and Sós (1985)[5] on the size of the largest product-free subset of a finite group of order n.

References

  1. ^ http://www.mit.edu/~kedlaya/about-my-name.html
  2. ^ "Silver Spring whiz kid brings home the gold". Washington Times. July 20, 1990. 
  3. ^ Hsu, Geoffrey C. (June 6, 1996). "Breaking the Curve". The Harvard Crimson. http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1996/6/6/breaking-the-curve-pbibm-statistically-significant/. 
  4. ^     (1997). "Large Product-Free Subsets of Finite Groups". Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A 77 (2): 339–343. doi:10.1006/jcta.1997.2715. 
  5. ^ Babai, L.; Sós, V. T. (1985). "Sidon sets in groups and induced subgraphs of Cayley graphs". Europ. J. Combin. 6: 101–114. 

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