Curtis T. McMullen

Curtis T. McMullen
Born Curtis Tracy McMullen
(1958-05-21) May 21, 1958
Berkeley, California
Nationality American
Alma mater Harvard University
Williams College
Known for Complex dynamics, hyperbolic geometry, Teichmüller theory
Awards Sloan Fellowship (1988)
Salem Prize (1991)
Fields Medal (1998)
Guggenheim Fellowship (2004)
Humboldt Prize (2011)
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Institutions Harvard
MIT
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton
Berkeley
Thesis Families of Rational Maps and Iterative Root-Finding Algorithms (1985)
Doctoral advisor Dennis Sullivan
Doctoral students Jeffrey Brock
Laura DeMarco
Jeremy Kahn
Maryam Mirzakhani
Website math.harvard.edu/~ctm/

Curtis Tracy McMullen (born May 21, 1958) is an American mathematician who is the Cabot Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1998 for his work in complex dynamics, hyperbolic geometry and Teichmüller theory.

Biography

McMullen graduated as valedictorian in 1980 from Williams College and obtained his Ph.D. in 1985 from Harvard University, supervised by Dennis Sullivan. He held post-doctoral positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, and the Institute for Advanced Study, after which he was on the faculty at Princeton University (1987–1990) and the University of California, Berkeley (1990–1997), before joining Harvard in 1997.

Honors and awards

McMullen received the Salem Prize in 1991 and won the Fields Medal in 1998.[1] He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2007 and in 2012 became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[2]

Trivia

McMullen has given a proof that backgammon ends with probability one.[3]

Works

  • ——— (1994), Complex Dynamics and Renormalization, Annals of Mathematics Studies, 135, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-02982-2 [4]
  • ——— (1996), Renormalization and 3-Manifolds which Fiber over the Circle, Annals of Mathematics Studies, 142, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-01153-2 [4]

References

  1. ↑ Borcherds, Gowers,Kontsevich, and McMullen Receive Fields Medals
  2. ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-02-04.
  3. ↑ Math.harvard.edu
  4. 1 2 Lyubich, Mikhail (1999). "Review of Complex dynamics and renormalization and Renormalization and 3-manifolds which fiber over the circle" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 36 (1): 103–107.
  • Curtis T McMullen at Harvard.
  • O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Curtis T. McMullen", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews .
  • Curtis T. McMullen at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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