Jacob Fox | |
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.jpg) Fox atOberwolfach in 2016 | |
| Born | (1984-04-07)April 7, 1984 (age 41) |
| Alma mater | Princeton University MIT |
| Known for | Combinatorics |
| Spouse | Kathy Lin |
| Children | Hannah Fox, David Fox |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Doctoral advisor | Benny Sudakov |
Jacob Fox (bornJacob Licht in 1984) is an American mathematician. He is a current professor atStanford University. His research interests are in Hungarian-stylecombinatorics, particularlyRamsey theory,extremal graph theory,combinatorial number theory, andprobabilistic methods in combinatorics.
Fox grew up inWest Hartford, Connecticut and attendedHall High School. As a senior he won second place overall and first place in his category in the annualIntel Science Talent Search,[2] also winning the Karl Menger Memorial Prize of theAmerican Mathematical Society for his project. The project was titled "Rainbow Ramsey Theory: Rainbow Arithmetic Progressions and Anti-Ramsey Results"[3] and was based on a research project he did at a six-week summer camp in mathematics, theResearch Science Institute (RSI), at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).[4] He also participated in an earlier high school mathematics program atOhio State University.[5]
Fox became an undergraduate at MIT, and was awarded the 2006Morgan Prize for several research publications in combinatorics.[5]
Fox completed his PhD in 2010 fromPrinceton University; his dissertation, supervised byBenny Sudakov, was titledRamsey Numbers.[6]
Fox worked in the mathematics department at MIT from 2010 to 2014, where he continued to teach classes relating to combinatorics. He was also one of the mentors at the Research Science Institute summer program.[7] He joined the faculty ofStanford University in 2015.[8]
In 2010, Fox was awarded theDénes Kőnig Prize, an early-career award of theSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Activity Group on Discrete Mathematics.[9] He was an invited speaker at theInternational Congress of Mathematicians in 2014.[10] He was awarded theOberwolfach Prize in 2016.[11]
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