Nathan Kaplan Receives 2008 AMS-MAA-SIAM Morgan Prize

January 7, 2008

Providence, RI:

Nathan Kaplan, a student at Princeton University and at the University of Cambridge, has received the 2008 AMS-MAA-SIAM Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student. The Morgan Prize is presented annually by the American Mathematical Society, the Mathematical Association of America, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. The award was presented today at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego, California.

Raised in Brooklyn, New York, Kaplan began taking mathematics courses at Columbia University while he was still in high school. He graduated from Princeton University in 2007 with high honors and received the mathematics department's Peter Greenberg prize, which honors outstanding mathematical accomplishments. Currently he is at Cambridge University in England doing Part III of the Mathematical Tripos. Next fall he will begin the mathematics Ph.D. program at Harvard University on a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. He plans to study algebraic number theory.

Kaplan has written four impressive research papers in algebraic number theory, three of which have been accepted for publication. He participated in three "Research Experiences for Undergraduates" programs, where he was described as outstanding and extraordinary. The prize citation says that all the mathematicians who recommended Kaplan for the prize, as well as the prize selection committee, "fully expect Kaplan to become a very successful research mathematician."

Find out more about AMS prizes at http://www.ams.org/prizes-awards.

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