Glenn H. Stevens
American mathematician
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Glenn Howard Stevens (born November 20, 1953) is an American mathematician and educator. He is Professor of Mathematics at Boston University where he has taught and conducted research since 1984.
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| Born | November 20, 1953 Bakersfield, California, US |
| Education | Harvard University |
| Known for | Number theory Automorphic forms Arithmetic geometry Modular curves PROMYS |
| Awards | Presidential Scholars Program (2005) |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Workplaces | Boston University |
| Barry Mazur | |
Doctoral students | Adrian Iovita |
Life
As a high school student, Stevens was a student of the Ross Program, an experience which would later lead him to found the PROMYS[1] program along with fellow Ross alumni Marjory Baruch, David Fried, and Steve Rosenberg. Stevens earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Harvard University in 1981; his thesis advisor was Barry Mazur and the subject of his thesis was the special values of L-functions.
Work
Stevens’ research specialties are number theory, automorphic forms, and arithmetic geometry. He has authored or edited several books, including an exposition on Fermat's Last Theorem as well as a textbook about arithmetic on modular curves.[2]
Awards and honors
A conference called Glennfest was held in honor of Stevens' 60th birthday on June 2–6, 2014. The theme of the conference was p-adic variation in number theory.[3]
In 2015 he was elected as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to the theory of p-adic modular forms and for service to the mathematical community."[4]