Allen_Knutson

Allen Knutson

Allen Knutson

American mathematician

Allen Ivar Knutson is an American mathematician who is a professor of mathematics at Cornell University.[1]

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Education

Knutson completed his undergraduate studies at the California Institute of Technology[2] and received a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996 under the joint advisorship of Victor Guillemin and Lisa Jeffrey.[3]

Career

He was on the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley before moving to the University of California, San Diego in 2005 and then to Cornell University in 2009.[4] In 2005, he and Terence Tao won the Levi L. Conant Prize of the American Mathematical Society for their paper "Honeycombs and Sums of Hermitian Matrices".[5]

Knutson is also known for his studies of the mathematics of juggling.[6] For five years beginning in 1990, he and fellow Caltech student David Morton held a world record for passing 12 balls.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    Faculty profile, Cornell University, accessed 2021-06-08.
  2. [2]
    Donahue, Bill (December 2004), "The Mathematics of . . . Juggling: An algebra whiz reveals the secrets of keeping a lot of balls in the air", Discover.
  3. [3]
    Allen Ivar Knutson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. [4]
    Department history Archived 2019-06-09 at the Wayback Machine, UCSD mathematics department, accessed 2012-06-20.
  5. [5]
    2005 Conant Prize, AMS, accessed 2012-06-20.
  6. [6]
    The mathematics of juggling one-hour YouTube lecture
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