Jacob Fox Receives 2006 AMS-MAA-SIAM Morgan Prize

January 13, 2006

Providence, RI:

Jacob Fox, an undergraduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is receiving the 2006 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 prize is being awarded today at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Antonio, Texas.

The citation for the prize states: "The award is based on a most astounding collection of research papers by any undergraduate mathematician. Jacob Fox's research is in three areas: Ramsey-type problems, rainbow patterns in colorings of the integers or Z/mZ, and other problems in graph theory (namely on discrepancy, clique number, embedding, and diameter). Jacob Fox is an excellent problem solver, passionately interested in these subjects, driven by his love of mathematics, his talents, and his originality. He communicates easily and frequently collaborates with a variety of distinguished researchers. He also frequently publishes alone. Jacob Fox's research exhibits a formidable ability to get to the heart of the issues in the problems at hand, and the ability to develop extremely ingenious and novel techniques. In addition to being able to solve problems posed by others, Fox has also excelled at finding topics all by himself, formulating novel conjectures and approaches to solutions. His accomplishments are shaping his areas of research and are of extraordinary promise for the future."

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

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