Glenn H. Stevens Explained

Glenn H. Stevens
Birth Date:November 20, 1953
Birth Place:Bakersfield, California, US
Fields:Mathematics
Workplaces:Boston University
Alma Mater:Harvard University
Doctoral Advisor:Barry Mazur
Doctoral Students:Adrian Iovita
Known For:Number theory
Automorphic forms
Arithmetic geometry
Modular curves
PROMYS
Awards:Presidential Scholars Program (2005)

Glenn H. 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.

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Home . promys.org . 2022-08-07 . 2019-08-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190820223018/https://promys.org/ . live .
  2. Book: Stevens, Glenn . Arithmetic on Modular Curves . Springer . Boston . 1982 . 0817630880 .
  3. Web site: P-adic Variation in Number Theory -- in honor of Glenn Stevens' 60th Birthday. 2014-05-29. 2017-09-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20170914001329/http://math.bu.edu/Glennfest/. live.
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