Peter Winkler

Peter Mann Winkler is a research mathematician, author of more than 125 research papers in mathematics[1] and patent holder in a broad range of applications, ranging from cryptography to marine navigation.[2] His research areas include discrete mathematics, theory of computation and probability theory. He is currently a Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Dartmouth College.[3]

Peter Winkler studied Mathematics at Harvard University and later received his PhD in 1975 from Yale University.[4] He has also served as an Assistant Professor at Stanford, Full Professor and Chair at Emory and as a Mathematics Research Director at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies.[2]

He has also published two books on mathematical puzzles: Mathematical Puzzles: A connoisseur's collection (A K Peters, 2004, ISBN 978-1-56881-201-4) and Mathematical Mind-Benders (A K Peters, 2007, ISBN 978-1-56881-336-3).

References

  1. ↑ Publication list from Winkler's home page at Dartmouth.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Information listed on Peter Winkler's homepage at Dartmouth.
  3. ↑ Dartmouth mathematics faculty listing.
  4. ↑ Peter Winkler at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.