Robert D. Hough
Robert D. Hough | |
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| Born | June 27, 1985 Midland, MI, USA |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Stony Brook University |
| Thesis | Distribution problems in number theory (2012) |
| Doctoral advisor | Kannan Soundararajan |
| Website | math |
Robert D. Hough is an American born mathematician specializing in number theory, probability and discrete mathematics. He is an associate professor of mathematics at Stony Brook University.
Hough won the Mathematical Association of America's David P. Robbins Prize at the Joint Math Meetings in 2017.[1] The prize was given for the solution of a problem of Paul Erdős for which Erdős had offered $1000.[2]
In February 2020, Hough won the Sloan Research Fellowship.[3] He has also won a Trustees Faculty Award from Stony Brook University.[4]
Early life and education
Hough holds BS in Math, MS in CS and PhD in Math degrees from Stanford University. He completed his PhD under Kannan Soundararajan in 2012. Hough was a post-doctoral researcher at Cambridge University and Oxford University in the United Kingdom working with Ben Green from 2013-2015, and was a post-doctoral member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey from 2015-2016.
Career
Since 2016 Hough has been on the faculty of Stony Brook University.
References
- ↑ "David P. Robbins Prize". Mathematical Association of America.
- ↑ Montgomery, Hugh (1994). Ten lectures on the interface of analytic number theory and harmonic analysis. American Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-0821807378.
- ↑ "Mathematics Professor Robert Hough Awarded Sloan Research Fellowship". Stony Brook News. Retrieved February 24, 2020.
- ↑ "Dow alum Hough receives fellowship". Midland Daily News. Retrieved August 8, 2020.
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