Fred Irvin Diamond (born November 19, 1964)[2] is a mathematician, known for his role in proving the modularity theorem for elliptic curves.[3] His research interest is in modular forms and Galois representations.
Fred Diamond | |
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Born | November 19, 1964 |
Alma mater | University of Michigan (B.A.) Princeton University (PhD) |
Known for | Number Theory |
Awards | AMS Centennial Fellowship[1] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | King's College London Columbia University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Rutgers University Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Brandeis University Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques |
Doctoral advisor | Andrew Wiles |
Diamond received his B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1984,[4] and received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1988 as a doctoral student of Andrew Wiles.[4][5] He has held positions at Brandeis University and Rutgers University, and is currently a professor at King's College London.[4]
Diamond is the author of several research papers, and is also a coauthor along with Jerry Shurman of A First Course in Modular Forms, in the Graduate Texts in Mathematics series published by Springer-Verlag.[6][7][8]