Bruce Reznick Explained

Bruce Reznick
Birth Place:New York City, New York
Nationality:American
Fields:Mathematics
Workplaces:University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Alma Mater:California Institute of Technology
Doctoral Advisor:Per Enflo
Known For:Non-negative polynomials
Awards:Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013)

Bruce Reznick (born February 3, 1953, in New York City) is an American mathematician long on the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He is a prolific researcher[1] noted for his contributions to number theory and the combinatorial-algebraic-analytic investigations of polynomials.[2] In July 2019, to mark his 66th birthday, a day long symposium "Bruce Reznick 66 fest: A mensch of Combinatorial-Algebraic Mathematics" was held at the University of Bern, Switzerland.[3]

Education and career

Reznick got his B.S. in 1973 from the California Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in 1976 from Stanford University under Per Enflo for the thesis "Banach Spaces Which Satisfy Linear Identities".[2] [4]

He was a Sloan Fellow (1983–1986) and is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS).[2] From 1983 to 1985 he was on the Putnam Competition Preparation Committee of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). As an undergraduate he had been a member of the first place team in the Putnam Competition twice, also being ranked twice in the top ten as an individual [2]

Reznick is a frequent author on matters relating to teaching and mentoring, and the overall training of graduate students. He wrote the popular article "Chalking It Up: Advice to a New TA".[5]

Research

Reznick has done a systematic analysis of the representation of real forms of even degree as sums of powers of linear forms. This work was described in his monograph Sum of Even Powers of Real Linear Forms (Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, 1992)[6]

Reznick specializes in combinatorial methods in algebra, analysis and number theory, often involving polynomials, polytopes and integer sequences.[7] He is known for his contributions to the study of sums of squares and positivity of polynomials. In joint work with M.D. Choi and T. Y. Lam, he developed the Gram matrix method for writing real polynomials as sums of squares; this method has important applications to other areas of mathematics including optimization.[8]

Awards

Selected publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://faculty.math.illinois.edu/~reznick/reznickrpubs.html Research Publications of Bruce Reznick
  2. https://faculty.math.illinois.edu/~reznick/reznicksketch.html Biographical Sketch of Bruce Reznick
  3. https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~deloera/reznickfest.html Bruce Reznick 66 fest: A mensch of Combinatorial-Algebraic Mathematics
  4. https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=4822 Bruce Arie Reznick
  5. http://bfc.sfsu.edu/cgi-bin/ugpd.pl?Handbooks Resources for Preparing and Supporting Teachers of Undergraduate Mathematics: Handbooks
  6. Sum of Even Powers of Real Linear Forms by Bruce Reznick, 30 Jul 1992
  7. The secret lives of polynomial identities Speaker Bruce Reznick, Claremont Center for the Mathematical Sciences, September 21, 2011
  8. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Xei_K_4AAAAJ&hl=en Google Scholar Citations
  9. http://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list Reznick, Bruce, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign – 2013, Inaugural Class of Fellows
  10. Math and Hollywood mix it up at MIT MIT OpenCourseWare News and Information, June 1, 2016
  11. Mulcahy, Colm, Centenary of Mathematician Paul Erdős -- Source of Bacon Number Concept Huffpost, December 6, 2017. Accessed November 14, 2022.

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