Last Update: June 26, 2017
Prizes From Organizations
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Mathematical Association of America's
Lester R. Ford Award (1990).
[
certificate]
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American Mathematical Society's
Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contributions to Research (1998, with H. Wilf).
[ certificate
Notices annuncement ;
]
[The members of the committee were:
Richard A. Askey, Ciprian Foias, H. Blaine Lawson Jr., Andrew J. Majda, Louis Nirenberg, Jonathan M. Rosenberg, and John T. Tate
] .
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Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications's
Euler Medal (2004).
[
medal
citation
List of Euler Medalists ].
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American Mathematical Society's
David P. Robbins Prize
(2016, with C. Koutschan and M. Kauers)
[news announcement
;
citation;
AMS Notices article,
see also pages 9-12 of prize booklet.
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[The members of the committee were: Sara Billey, Timothy Y. Chow, Curtis Greene, Victor Reiner, and Daniel A. Spielman (chair)] .
Research Excellence Award from Graduate School
Mentoring Excellence Award from Graduate Students
Prizes From Individuals
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$50
from George Andrews
and Dick Askey for a proof of
Andrews's q-Dyson Conjecture (joint wth D. Bressoud).
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$50
from Dick Askey for a proof of the Madonald-G2 conjecture
(joint with L. Habsieger).
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$50
from Dick Askey for a proof of the Madonald-G2-dual conjecture.
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10 bottles of wine
from Xavier Viennot for a bijection
between binary trees to ordered trees that sends the
Strahler number to the prunning order.
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$100 from Ron Graham for a proof of a conjecture about Schur Triples.
(joint with A. Robertson, shared with T. Schoen).
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I am deeply touched and honored to be named (July 27, 2006)
Persi Diaconis's
favorite (still living!) mathematician.
Named Lectures
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The Weizmann Institute of Science Joe Gillis Memorial Lecture, Jan. 25, 1996.
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Texas A&M Frontiers of Mathematics, Feb. 21-23, 2001.
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University of Kentucky Hayden-Howard Lecture,
(poster)
Oct. 21, 2003.
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University of Florida Department of Mathematics History Lecture, March 9, 2005.
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Math. Assoc. of America Distinguished Lecture Series,
Feb. 20, 2007 (MAA Headquarters, Washington, DC).
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The American Mathematical Society Erdös Memorial Lecture,
(
brochure [by Alberto Corso],
certificate),
March 27, 2010.
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The Weizmann Institute of Science Chaim Leib Pekeris Memorial Lecture,
(
poster),
June 30, 2010.
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Georgia Southern University Mathematics Distinguished Lecture, March 23, 2017.
Fame
According to the
Who's Bigger website (viewed June 29, 2016)
I am the 76415th most famous person who has ever lived
(i.e. there are 76414 persons (dead or alive) more famous, starting with Jesus(#1), and via Moses (#143)).
I am also the 95523rd most significant person.
Ph.D. diploma [in Hebrew]
Ph.D. diploma [in English]
B.Sc diploma