# Jeremy Kahn > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Jeremy_Kahn > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Jeremy_Kahn.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Kahn > Source revision: 1341802707 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|American mathematician}} {{use mdy dates|date=July 2017}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Jeremy A. Kahn | image = Jeremy Kahn and Vladimir Markovic.jpg | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = Jeremy Kahn (left) and Vladimir Markovic | birth_date = {{birth date and age |1969|10|26|mf=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | fields = [Mathematics](/source/Mathematics) | workplaces = [California Institute of Technology](/source/California_Institute_of_Technology)
[Stony Brook University](/source/Stony_Brook_University)
[Brown University](/source/Brown_University) | alma_mater = [Harvard University](/source/Harvard_University)
[University of California, Berkeley](/source/University_of_California%2C_Berkeley) | doctoral_advisor = [Curtis McMullen](/source/Curtis_McMullen) | doctoral_students = | known_for = | awards = }} '''Jeremy Adam Kahn''' (born October 26, 1969) is an American mathematician. He works on [hyperbolic geometry](/source/hyperbolic_geometry), [Riemann surface](/source/Riemann_surface)s and [complex dynamics](/source/complex_dynamics). ==Education== Kahn grew up in [New York City](/source/New_York_City) and attended [Hunter College High School](/source/Hunter_College_High_School). He was a [child prodigy](/source/child_prodigy) who mastered [quadratic equations](/source/quadratic_equations) at the age of 7, at the age of 8 designed an equation identical to the one [Carl Gauss](/source/Carl_Gauss) designed at the age of 9, and proved the Pythagorean Theorem at the age of 10.{{cite web|first=Robert|last= Marquand |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/1985/0712/dkahn-f.html|title=Growing up gifted: three-time math Olympian Jeremy Kahn|newspaper=[The Christian Science Monitor](/source/The_Christian_Science_Monitor)|date=July 12, 1985}} Kahn was part of the [Johns Hopkins University](/source/Johns_Hopkins_University) [Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth](/source/Study_of_Mathematically_Precocious_Youth) longitudinal cohort. At the age of 11, he scored a 780 out of a possible 800 on the math portion of the [SAT-I](/source/SAT-I) exam. At the age of 13, he became the youngest person ever to make the United States [International Mathematical Olympiad](/source/International_Mathematical_Olympiad) team {{cite journal | last = Stanley | first = Julian | date = March 1987 | doi = 10.1177/107621758701000208 | issue = 2 | journal = Gifted Child Today | pages = 22–23 | title = Making the IMO Team: The Power of Early Identification and Encouragement | url = https://gwern.net/doc/iq/high/smpy/1987-stanley.pdf | volume = 10}} He participated in the Olympiad four times, winning silver medals in 1983 and 1984, and gold medals in 1985 and 1986.{{Cite web|url=https://www.imo-official.org/participant_r.aspx?id=1411|title = International Mathematical Olympiad}} On the basis of his success in the [Putnam competition](/source/Putnam_competition), he became a Putnam Fellow in 1988.{{Cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2324716|jstor = 2324716|last1 = Klosinski|first1 = Leonard F.|last2 = Alexanderson|first2 = G. L.|last3 = Larson|first3 = Loren C.|title = The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition|journal = The American Mathematical Monthly|year = 1989|volume = 96|issue = 8|pages = 688–695|doi = 10.1080/00029890.1989.11972264}} He received a bachelor's degree in mathematics at [Harvard University](/source/Harvard_University), then received his Ph.D. from the [University of California, Berkeley](/source/University_of_California%2C_Berkeley) in 1995 under [Curtis McMullen](/source/Curtis_McMullen) with the thesis ''Holomorphic removability of quadratic polynomial Julia sets''.{{MathGenealogy|id=32225}} ==Career== Kahn was assistant professor at the [California Institute of Technology](/source/California_Institute_of_Technology) from 1995 to 1998 and was later a postdoc at the [University of Toronto](/source/University_of_Toronto). After that, he worked for the investment firm [Highbridge Capital Management](/source/Highbridge_Capital_Management) as an analyst in [financial mathematics](/source/financial_mathematics). He was a postdoc and later assistant professor at the [Stony Brook University](/source/Stony_Brook_University). He is currently a professor of mathematics at [Brown University](/source/Brown_University).{{Cite web|url=https://directory.brown.edu/uuid/0489ffd0-c072-523e-f868-d9830b179f36|title = Directory Page for | Brown University}} In 2012, Kahn and [Vladimir Markovic](/source/Vladimir_Markovic) received the [Clay Research Award](/source/Clay_Research_Award) for their research on [hyperbolic geometry](/source/hyperbolic_geometry), specifically, for their result on immersions into a closed hyperbolic 3-manifold (proof of the [surface subgroup conjecture](/source/surface_subgroup_conjecture)){{cite arXiv|author=Kahn, J.|author2=Markovic, V.|eprint=0910.5501|title=Immersing almost geodesic surfaces in a closed hyperbolic 3-manifold|year=2009|class=math.GT}} Preprint in 2009; published in [Annals of Mathematics](/source/Annals_of_Mathematics) in 2011 and for their proof of the [Ehrenpreis conjecture](/source/Ehrenpreis_conjecture).{{cite arXiv|author=Kahn, J.|author2=Markovic, V.|title=The good pants homology and a proof of the Ehrenpreis conjecture|year=2011|class=math.GT|eprint=1101.1330}} In 2014 he was an [invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians](/source/invited_speaker_at_the_International_Congress_of_Mathematicians) in [Seoul](/source/Seoul) and gave a talk called "The Surface Subgroup and the Ehrenpreis Conjectures". ==Selected publications== *{{cite journal|first1=Jeremy|last1= Kahn|first2=Vladimir|last2= Markovic|author2-link=Vladimir Markovic|title=Immersing almost geodesic surfaces in a closed hyperbolic three manifold|journal=[Annals of Mathematics](/source/Annals_of_Mathematics) |series= 2|volume=175|year=2012|issue=3|pages=1127–1190|doi=10.4007/annals.2012.175.3.4|mr=2912704|arxiv=0910.5501|s2cid= 32593851}} * {{cite journal | last1=Avila | first1=Artur | last2=Kahn | first2=Jeremy | last3=Lyubich | first3=Mikhail | last4=Shen | first4=Weixiao | title=Combinatorial rigidity for unicritical polynomials | journal=[Annals of Mathematics](/source/Annals_of_Mathematics) | volume=170 | issue=2 | year=2009 | pages=783–797 |jstor=25662159|doi=10.4007/annals.2009.170.783|mr=2552107|arxiv=math/0507240| s2cid=12631168 }} ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== *{{cite web|url=https://www.math.brown.edu/~kahn/|title= Homepage at Brown University}} (With some online preprints.) {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Kahn, Jeremy}} Category:20th-century American mathematicians Category:21st-century American mathematicians Category:Dynamical systems theorists Category:Harvard University alumni Category:Hunter College High School alumni Category:University of California, Berkeley alumni Category:California Institute of Technology faculty Category:Stony Brook University faculty Category:Brown University faculty Category:1969 births Category:Living people Category:Putnam Fellows --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Jeremy Kahn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Kahn) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Kahn?action=history)). 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