Jordan Ellenberg

Jordan Stuart Ellenberg (born 1971) is an American mathematician who is a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research involves arithmetic geometry. He received both his A.B. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. In 2004, he began teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is currently the John D. MacArthur Professor of Mathematics, a position he has held since 2015. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society and was a plenary speaker at the 2013 Joint Mathematics Meetings where he spoke on the subject of number theory and algebraic topology, the study of abstract high-dimensional shapes and the relations between them. He was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2015. His research focuses on "the fields of number theory and algebraic geometry." In addition to his research articles, he has authored a novel, The Grasshopper King, which was a finalist for the 2004 Young Lions Fiction Award; the "Do the Math" column in Slate; a non-fiction book, How Not to Be Wrong; and articles on mathematical topics in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Wired, Seed, and The Believer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Ellenberg