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Daniel Biss Member of the Illinois House of Representatives
from the 17th districtIn office
2011 –Preceded by Elizabeth Coulson Personal details Born August 27, 1977
Akron, OhioPolitical party Democratic Spouse(s) Karin Steinbrueck Alma mater Harvard University
MITProfession Mathematician Religion Jewish Daniel Kálmán Biss (born August 27, 1977) is an American mathematician and State Representative for the 17th district in the Illinois House of Representatives, serving since 2011. The district includes Chicago's northern suburbs, including Evanston, Glencoe, Glenview, Golf, Morton Grove, Northbrook, Northfield, Skokie, Wilmette, and Winnetka.
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Personal life, education and mathematical career
Biss was born into a family of musicians, and his brother is the noted pianist Jonathan Biss. Biss attended Bloomington High School North in Bloomington, Indiana, graduating in 1995. He subsequently earned his undergraduate degree at Harvard University, graduating summa cum laude, and his Ph.D. at MIT in 2002, both in mathematics.[1] He won the 1999 Morgan Prize for his outstanding research as an undergraduate, and was a Clay Research Fellow from 2002 to 2007.[2] His doctoral advisor was Michael J. Hopkins.
Prior to running for State Representative, Biss was an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago. He published several papers about Grassmannian manifolds in prestigious journals, including the Annals of Mathematics, that later were discovered to contain a flaw which rendered the proofs invalid. By this point Biss was working on other research areas, and so his collaborator Laura Anderson (who was working on this topic) took charge of fixing the mistake. When the flaw was unable to be corrected Nikolai Mnev, a Russian mathematician who had independently discovered the error and had been corresponding with Anderson (and had previously collaborated with Anderson), publicized the error. In 2008 (by which time he had gone into politics and was no longer a practicing mathematician), Biss issued retractions to the journals, which were subsequently published.[1][3][4]
Biss created and wrote the mathematics for An Abundance of Katherines, a novel by Vlogbrothers creator and author John Green, a friend of Biss.[5][6]
Illinois House of Representatives
Committee assignments
- Appropriations – Elementary & Secondary Education
- Personnel & Pensions
- Consumer Protection
- Small Business Empowerment & Workforce Development
- International Trade & Commerce
- Bio-Technology
- Appropriations – Higher Education.[7]
Electoral history
Illinois State Representative: Results 2008–2010[8] Year Democrat Votes Pct Republican Votes Pct 2008 Daniel K. Biss 25,959 49% Elizabeth Coulson 27,540 51% 2010 Daniel K. Biss 23,134 55% Hamilton Chang 19,096 45% Political views
According to a 2008 Political Courage Test, Daniel Biss supports carbon emissions limits. Biss is pro-choice, supporting legal abortion. He supports allowing illegal immigrant high school graduates to pay in-state tuition at public universities, as well as state funding to raise the salaries of teachers.[9]. He received rating F by the NRA in 2010.[10] Biss is a supporter of labor unions[11] and has received $20,000 from AFSCME, the second largest donation to a state legislator.[12]
State Senate campaign
On November 10, 2011, Biss announced his intent to run for the Illinois Senate seat, currently held by retiring Senator Jeffrey Schoenberg.[13].
Selected works
- See also
- See also
- See also Mnev, N. (2007). "On D.K. Biss' papers "The homotopy type of the matroid Grassmannian" and "Oriented matroids, complex manifolds, and a combinatorial model for BU"". arXiv:0709.1291 [math.CO].
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References
- ^ a b Szpiro, George G. (2010). "20: Brilliant but Fallible". A mathematical medley: fifty easy pieces on mathematics. American Mathematical Society. pp. 97–99. http://books.google.com/books?id=mXWr00HurmMC&pg=PA97.
- ^ Daniel Biss, Clay Mathematics Institute
- ^ Comment by Laura Anderson on September 21, 2007 to Chicago Reader article "John Edwards and -- Daniel Biss?" -- Anderson's account of the events
- ^ Error were discovered variously between 2005 (Anderson) and April 2006 (Mnev), Mnev posted September 2007, Biss submitted errata November 2008 (Annals) and December 2008 (Advances), which were published July 2009 (Annals) and March 2009 (Advances)
- ^ Nir, Oaz (2008). "Book Review: An Abundance of Katherines". Notices of the AMS (American Mathematical Society) 55 (9): 1096–98. http://www.ams.org/notices/200809/tx080901096p.pdf. Retrieved 8 June 2011.
- ^ Green, John (2006). An Abundance of Katherines. Dutton. ISBN 0525476881.
- ^ "Representative Daniel Biss (D)". www.ilga.gov. http://www.ilga.gov/house//Rep.asp?MemberID=1778. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
- ^ "Election Results". Cook County Board of Elections. http://www.cookcountyclerk.com/elections/results/Pages/default.aspx. Retrieved February 22, 2011.
- ^ [1]
- ^ [2].
- ^ Biss Kicks Off Campaign With 150 Strong, Daniel Biss press release, September 14, 2009.
- ^ Wage increases slow, but not campaign contributions
- ^ http://www.dailynorthwestern.com/city/state-rep-biss-to-seek-schoenberg-s-senate-seat-1.2669291
External links
- State Representative Daniel Biss Official webpage on the Illinois General Assembly website
- Daniel Biss for State Representative Official campaign website
- Daniel Biss at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- Democrat Daniel Biss Takes 17th District Illinois House Seat
- Democrat Biss apparently captures former GOP state House seat
- Biss wins in Illinois 17th House
- Project Vote Smart - Daniel K. Biss
Categories:- 1977 births
- Living people
- People from Akron, Ohio
- American mathematicians
- 21st-century mathematicians
- Jewish American politicians
- Number theorists
- Harvard University alumni
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
- Members of the Illinois House of Representatives
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