Jonathan Pila

Jonathan Pila
Jonathan Pila in 2015, portrait from the Royal Society
Born
Jonathan Solomon Pila

(1962-07-28) 28 July 1962
Melbourne, Australia
Alma mater
  • University of Melbourne
  • Stanford University (PhD)
Awards
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
ThesisFrobenius maps of Abelian varieties and finding roots of unity in finite fields (1988)
Doctoral advisor
Peter Sarnak
Websitewww.maths.ox.ac.uk/people/jonathan.pila

Jonathan Solomon Pila (born 1962) FRS is an Australian mathematician at the University of Oxford. He was awarded a BSc from the University of Melbourne in 1984, and a PhD from Stanford University in 1988, the latter for research supervised by Peter Sarnak. His dissertation was entitled "Frobenius Maps of Abelian Varieties and Finding Roots of Unity in Finite Fields". In 2010, he received an MA from Oxford.