Noam Elkies

Noam Elkies
Noam Elkies in 2007
Born (1966-08-25) August 25, 1966
New York City, US
Alma materColumbia University (BS 1985)
Harvard University (PhD 1987)
Known forElliptic curves
AwardsPutnam Fellow
Lester R. Ford Award (2004)
Levi L. Conant Prize (2004)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsHarvard University
Thesis Supersingular primes of a given elliptic curve over a number field  (1987)
Doctoral advisor
Benedict Gross
Barry Mazur
Doctoral students
Henry Cohn

Noam David Elkies (born August 25, 1966) is a professor of mathematics at Harvard University. At age 26, he became the youngest professor to receive tenure at Harvard. He is also a pianist, chess national master, and chess composer.

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