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Allen Knutson
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Allen Ivar Knutson
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Allen Ivar Knutson is an American mathematician. He teaches math as a professor at Cornell University.
His Early Life and Education
Allen Knutson went to Stuyvesant High School. After that, he studied at the California Institute of Technology, also known as Caltech. He earned a special advanced degree called a Ph.D. in math from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1996.
His Career in Math
Professor Knutson taught at the University of California, Berkeley for some time. In 2005, he moved to the University of California, San Diego. Then, in 2009, he joined Cornell University as a math professor.
In 2005, he and another mathematician, Terence Tao, won an award. It was called the Levi L. Conant Prize from the American Mathematical Society. They won it for their paper about "Honeycombs and Sums of Hermitian Matrices." In 2022, he was asked to speak at a big math meeting called the International Congress of Mathematicians.
Juggling and Math
Allen Knutson is also famous for studying the math behind juggling. He even held a world record for five years, starting in 1990. He and a friend, David Morton, set the record for passing 12 balls.
