Joel Spencer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Joel Spencer

American mathematician

Date of Birth: 20-Apr-1946

Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Profession: computer scientist, mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Joel Spencer (born April 20, 1946) is an American mathematician.
He is a combinatorialist who has worked on probabilistic methods in combinatorics and on Ramsey theory.
He received his doctorate from Harvard University in 1970, under the supervision of Andrew Gleason.
He is currently (as of 2018) a professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. In 1984 Spencer received a Lester R.
Ford Award.
He was an Erdos Lecturer at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2001.
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He was elected as a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2017, "for contributions to discrete mathematics and theory of computing, particularly random graphs and networks, Ramsey theory, logic, and randomized algorithms".