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Jack Thorne
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Jack A. Thorne
13 June 1987 Hereford, England
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| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge Harvard University |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
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| Thesis | The Arithmetic of Simple Singularities (2012) |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard Taylor, Benedict Gross |
Jack A. Thorne, born on June 13, 1987, is a brilliant British mathematician. He studies number theory, which is like the science of numbers. He also works on a big area of math called the Langlands program, especially how it connects to arithmetic. He's an expert in algebraic number theory, which looks at numbers using algebra.
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Jack Thorne's Early Education
Jack Thorne studied mathematics at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, a famous university in England. Later, he went to Harvard University in the United States. There, he earned his PhD, which is a very high degree, in 2012. His teachers for this important work were Benedict Gross and Richard Taylor, who are also well-known mathematicians.
Jack Thorne's Career and Research
Jack Thorne was once a Clay Research Fellow, which is a special position for promising young researchers. Since 2015, he has been a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. He is also a fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge.
How Thorne's Work Helps Mathematics
Thorne's research has made big steps in mathematics. He found new ways to use a method called Taylor–Wiles. This method helps mathematicians understand certain types of equations. His work also improved earlier findings by other mathematicians like Chris Skinner and Andrew Wiles. He expanded their ideas from two-dimensional problems to n-dimensional problems.
Teamwork in Mathematics
Working with other mathematicians, Thorne has used special techniques to explore the Langlands conjectures. These are big, unsolved puzzles in mathematics. He also helped create Galois representations. These are like mathematical maps that help us understand complex number systems. He worked with Kai-Wen Lan, Michael Harris, and Richard Taylor on this.
Solving Big Math Puzzles
In 2015, Thorne worked with Chandrashekhar Khare on a project that helped prove a part of the modularity conjecture. This conjecture connects different areas of mathematics, like elliptic curves, which are special curves used in number theory. More recently, Thorne and James Newton have made progress on something called symmetric power functoriality for holomorphic modular forms. This is another important step in understanding complex mathematical structures.
Awards and Honors for Jack Thorne
Jack Thorne has received many important awards for his work.
- In 2017, he was given the Whitehead Prize.
- In 2018, he was invited to speak at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Brazil.
- He also won the 2018 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize, sharing it with Yifeng Liu. This prize is given to young mathematicians for outstanding work.
- In April 2020, he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. This is a very high honor for scientists in the United Kingdom.
- In 2020, he received the EMS Prize from the European Mathematical Society.
- In 2021, he was awarded a New Horizons in Mathematics Prize.
- In 2022, he received the Adams Prize.
- For 2023, he was awarded the Cole Prize in Number Theory by the American Mathematical Society.
- In 2024, he received the Clay Research Award jointly with James Newton.
External Links
- Jack Thorne's Professional Webpage
