Edray Herber Goins

Edray Herber Goins (born June 29, 1972, Los Angeles) is an American mathematician. He specializes in number theory and algebraic geometry. His interests include Selmer groups for elliptic curves using class groups of number fields, Belyi maps and Dessin d'enfants.[1][2]

Edray H. Goins
Born	June 29, 1972 Los Angeles
Nationality	American
Alma mater	California Institute of Technology Stanford University
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Pomona College Purdue University
Doctoral advisors	Daniel Bump Karl Rubin

Early life

Goins was born in Los Angeles in 1972. His mother, Eddi Beatrice Brown, was a teacher. He attended public schools in South Los Angeles and got his BSc in mathematics and physics in 1994 from California Institute of Technology, where he also received two prizes for mathematics. He completed his PhD in 1999 on “Elliptic Curves and Icosahedral Galois Representations” from Stanford University, under Daniel Bump and Karl Rubin.[3][4]

Career

He served for many years on the faculty of Purdue University. He has also served as visiting scholar at both the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and Harvard.[4] Goins took a position at Pomona College in 2018.[5]

His summers have focused on engaging underrepresented students in research in the mathematical sciences. He currently runs the NSF-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) "Pomona Research in Mathematics Experience (PRiME)".[6] He is noted for his 2018 essay, "Three Questions: The Journey of One Black Mathematician".[7]

Goins is President of the National Association of Mathematicians (NAM).[8] He was elected to the 2019 Class of Fellows of the Association for Women in Mathematics.[9]

Papers

• 2000 A ternary algebra with applications to binary quadratic forms Council for African American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences, Vol. IV (Baltimore, MD, 2000), 7--12, Contemp. Math., 284, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2001.
• 2001 Artin's conjecture and elliptic curves Contemp. Math., 275, 39--51, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2001.
• 2001 The fractional parts of N/K (with M. R. Currie) Council for African American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences, Vol. III (Baltimore, MD, 1997/Ann Arbor, MI, 1999), 13--31, Contemp. Math., 275, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2001.
• 2003 Icosahedral Q-Curve Extensions, Math. Res. Lett. 10 (2003), no. 2-3.
• 2007 On Pythagorean quadruplets (with Alain Togbe) International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Vol 35, No 3, 2007, pp 365-374
• 2008 On the Diophantine Equation ${\displaystyle x^{2}+2^{\alpha }5^{\alpha }13^{\alpha }=y^{n}}$ (with Florian Luca & Alain Togbé) Algorithmic number theory, pp 430–442, Lecture Notes in Comput. Sci., 5011, Springer, Berlin.
• 2009 Palindromes in different bases: A conjecture of J. Ernest Wilkins. Integers 9 (2009), A55, 725–734.
• 2010 Semi-magic squares and elliptic curves. Missouri J. Math. Sci. 22 (2010), no. 2, 102–107.
• 2012 Points on hyperbolas at rational distance (with Kevin Mugo). Int. J. Number Theory 8 (2012), no. 4, 911–922.
• 2013 Branch decomposition heuristics for linear matroids (with Jing Ma, Susan Margulies and Illya V.Hicks). Discrete Optim. 10 no. 2, 102–119. (2013)
• 2013 Arithmetic progressions on conic sections (with Alejandra Alvarado). Int. J. Number Theory 9, no. 6, 1379–1393. (2013)
• 2014 On the generalized climbing stairs problem (with Talitha M. Washington) Ars Combin. 117 (2014)
• 2016 Riordan matrix representations of Euler's constant γ and Euler's number e (with Asamoah Nkwanta) International Journal of Combinatorics, 2016

References

1. Edray Herber Goins Mathematicians of the African Diaspora at the State University of New York at Buffalo
2. Professor Goins featured speaker at University of Michigan's Dr. Marjorie Lee Browne Colloquium Department of Mathematics, Purdue University
3. Edray Herber Goins at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
4. "For a Black Mathematician, What It's Like to Be the 'Only One'". The New York Times. Retrieved 2019-01-20.
5. Why I’m leaving a Research I University for a Liberal Arts College American Mathematical Society Blog, Posted on September 15, 2017 by Edray Goins
6. "2016 PRiME: Purdue Research in Mathematics Experience". www.math.purdue.edu. Retrieved 2019-01-20.
7. Three Questions: The Journey of One Black Mathematician by Edray Herber Goins, Notices of the AMS, February 2018
8. National Association of Mathematicians Board of Directors
9. "Fellows of the AWM". Association for Women in Mathematics. Association for Women in Mathematics. Retrieved 8 January 2019.

External links

• Edray Goins's Home page
• Edray Herber Goins publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
• New York Times Profile of Edray Goins
• Meet a Mathematician! Video Interview