Joel Spencer
American mathematician and academic · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1946 · age 80
Joel Harold Spencer is an American mathematician. He is a combinatorialist who has worked on probabilistic methods in combinatorics and on Ramsey theory. He received his doctorate from Harvard University in 1970, under the supervision of Andrew Gleason.
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2021Steele Prize for Mathematical ExpositionAward2017Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied MathematicsAward2013Fellow of the American Mathematical SocietyAward1946Born20 April 1946
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Spencer is currently a professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. His work was heavily influenced by Paul Erdős, with whom Spencer co-authored many papers.
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Born 1946 · age 80
