Fred Diamond

Born|  (1964-11-19) November 19, 1964 (age 61)
Alma mater| University of Michigan (B.A.)
Princeton University (PhD)
Known for| Number Theory
Awards| AMS Centennial Fellowship[1]
Scientific career
Fields| Mathematics
Institutions| King's College London
Columbia University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rutgers University
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Brandeis University
Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques
Doctoral advisor| Andrew Wiles

Fred Irvin Diamond (born November 19, 1964)[2] is a mathematician, known for his role in proving the modularity theorem for elliptic curves.[3] His research interest is in modular forms and Galois representations.

## Life

Diamond received his B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1984,[4] and received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1988 as a doctoral student of Andrew Wiles.[4][5] He has held positions at Brandeis University and Rutgers University, and is currently a professor at King's College London.[4]

Diamond is the author of several research papers, and is also a coauthor along with Jerry Shurman of A First Course in Modular Forms, in the Graduate Texts in Mathematics series published by Springer-Verlag.[6][7][8]

## References

1. ↑ "Centennial Fellowships Awarded". Notices of the AMS 44 (6): 704–705. June–July 1997. https://www.ams.org/notices/199706/people.pdf. .
2. ↑ "Curriculum Vitae: Fred Diamond". Brandeis University. http://people.brandeis.edu/~fdiamond/04cv.pdf.
3. ↑ Whitehouse, David (November 19, 1999). "Mathematicians crack big puzzle". BBC. https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/527914.stm.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Academic Staff A-Z: Professor Fred Diamond". King's College London Department of Mathematics. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/mathematics/people/atoz/diamondf.aspx.
5. ↑ Fred Irvin Diamond at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
6. ↑ Review of A First Course in Modular Forms by Daniel Bump (2005), SIAM Review 47 (4): 813–816, JSTOR 20453715.
7. ↑ Review of A First Course in Modular Forms by Henri Darmon (2006), MR2112196.
8. ↑ Review of A First Course in Modular Forms by Fernando Q. Gouvêa (2007), American Mathematical Monthly 114 (1): 85–90, JSTOR 27642138.

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