Kiran Kedlaya Explained

Kiran Sridhara Kedlaya (;^[3] born July 1974) is an American mathematician. He currently is a Professor of Mathematics and the Stefan E. Warschawski Chair in Mathematics^[4] at the University of California, San Diego.

Biography

Kiran Kedlaya was born into a Tulu Brahmin family.^[5] At age 16, Kedlaya won a gold medal at the International Mathematics Olympiad,^[6] which he later followed with a silver and another gold medal. While an undergraduate student at Harvard, he was a three-time Putnam Fellow in 1993, 1994, and 1995.^[7] A 1996 article by The Harvard Crimson described him as "the best college-age student in math in the United States".^[8]

Kedlaya was runner-up for the 1995 Morgan Prize, for a paper^[9] in which he substantially improved on results of László Babai and Vera Sós (1985)^[10] 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".^[11]

In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.^[12]

Game shows

Kedlaya was a contestant on the game show Jeopardy! in 2011, winning one episode.^[13]

Selected works

• p-adic Differential Equations, Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics, Band 125, Cambridge University Press 2010^[14]
• with David Savitt, Dinesh Thakur, Matt Baker, Brian Conrad, Samit Dasgupta, Jeremy Teitelbaum p-adic Geometry, Lectures from the 2007 Arizona Winter School, American Mathematical Society 2008
• with Bjorn Poonen, Ravi Vakil The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition 1985-2000: Problems, Solutions and Commentary, Mathematical Association of America, 2002

External links

• Kiran Kedlaya's website

Notes and References

1. News: Kedlaya . Kiran . About my name .
2. Web site: The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers: Recipient Details: Kiran Kedlaya. NSF.
3. Web site: About My Name.
4. Web site: Exploring the mathematical universe. American Institute of Mathematics. 2 August 2017. 10 May 2016.
5. Web site: Kiran S. Kedlaya.
6. News: Silver Spring whiz kid brings home the gold . . July 20, 1990 .
7. Web site: Putnam Competition Individual and Team Winners . Mathematical Association of America. December 14, 2021.
8. News: Hsu . Geoffrey C. . Breaking the Curve . The Harvard Crimson . June 6, 1996 .
9. Kedlaya . Kiran S. . 3 . 1997 . Large Product-Free Subsets of Finite Groups . . Series A . 77 . 2 . 339–343 . 10.1006/jcta.1997.2715 . free .
10. Babai . László. László Babai . Sós . Vera T.. Vera T. Sós . Sidon sets in groups and induced subgraphs of Cayley graphs . . 6 . 2. 1985 . 101–114 . 10.1016/s0195-6698(85)80001-9. free.
11. Web site: ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897. International Congress of Mathematicians. 2013-08-15. 2017-11-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20171108012153/http://www.mathunion.org/db/ICM/Speakers/SortedByCongress.php. dead.
12. https://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
13. http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=3770 Jeopardy! Archive – Show #6257, aired 2011–11–29
14. Berger, Laurent. Review: p-adic differential equations, by Kiran Kedlaya. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 2012. 49. 3. 465–468. 10.1090/s0273-0979-2012-01371-X. free.