Henry Cohn
Henry Cohn is an American mathematician. He is a principal researcher at Microsoft Research and an adjunct professor at MIT.[1] In collaboration with Abhinav Kumar, Stephen D. Miller, Danylo Radchenko, and Maryna Viazovska, he solved the sphere packing problem in 24 dimensions.[2]
Cohn graduated from Harvard University in 2000 with a doctorate in mathematics.[3] Cohn was an Erdős Lecturer at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2008. In 2016, he became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to discrete mathematics, including applications to computer science and physics."[4]
In 2018, he was awarded the Levi L. Conant Prize for his article “A Conceptual Breakthrough in Sphere Packing,” published in 2017 in the Notices of the AMS.[5]
References
- "Henry Cohn". Retrieved 14 July 2017.
- Klarreich, Erica. "Sphere Packing Solved in Higher Dimensions". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
- Henry Cohn | MIT Mathematics
- List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2017-08-09
- "2018 Levi L. Conant Prize" (PDF). American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
External links
- Klarreich, Erica (2019-05-13). "Out of a Magic Math Function, One Solution to Rule Them All". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved 2019-05-19.