Kiran Kedlaya, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Kiran Kedlaya

American mathematician

Date of Birth: 01-Jul-1974

Place of Birth: Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Kiran Kedlaya

  • Kiran Sridhara Kedlaya (; born July 1974) is an Indian American mathematician.
  • He currently is a Professor of Mathematics and the Stefan E.
  • Warschawski Chair in Mathematics at the University of California, San Diego. At age 16, Kedlaya won a gold medal at the International Mathematics Olympiad, and would later win a silver and another gold medal.
  • While an undergraduate student at Harvard, he was a three-time Putnam Fellow.
  • A 1996 article by The Harvard Crimson described him as "the best college-age student in math in the United States".Kedlaya was runner-up for the 1995 Morgan Prize, for a paper in which he substantially improved on results of László Babai and Vera Sós (1985) on the size of the largest product-free subset of a finite group of order n. He gave an invited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010, on the topic of "Number Theory".In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.He was also a contestant on the game show Jeopardy! in 2011, winning one episode.

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