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Fred Diamond

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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.

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Life

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]

References

  1. [1]
    "Centennial Fellowships Awarded" (PDF). Mathematical People. Notices of the AMS. 44 (6): 704–705. June–July 1997..
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    "Curriculum Vitae: Fred Diamond" (PDF). Brandeis University. Retrieved May 4, 2013.
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    Whitehouse, David (November 19, 1999). "Mathematicians crack big puzzle". BBC. Retrieved February 6, 2010.
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    "Academic Staff A-Z: Professor Fred Diamond". King's College London Department of Mathematics. Retrieved May 4, 2013.
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    Fred Irvin Diamond at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. [6]
    Review of A First Course in Modular Forms by Daniel Bump (2005), SIAM Review 47 (4): 813–816, JSTOR 20453715.
  7. [7]
    Review of A First Course in Modular Forms by Henri Darmon (2006), MR2112196.
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    Review of A First Course in Modular Forms by Fernando Q. Gouvêa (2007), American Mathematical Monthly 114 (1): 85–90, JSTOR 27642138.


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