Joseph H. Silverman

Joseph H. Silverman (born 1955) is currently a professor of mathematics at Brown University. Joseph Silverman received an Sc.B. from Brown University in 1977 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1982 under the direction of John Tate. He taught at M.I.T. (1982-1986) and at Boston University (1986-1988) before taking a position at Brown in 1988.

Silverman's work has been in number theory, arithmetic geometry, arithmetic dynamics and cryptography. He has published more than 100 research articles, written or coauthored six books, and edited three conference proceedings.

In 1996, Silverman, along with Jeffrey Hoffstein, Jill Pipher and Daniel Lieman, founded NTRU Cryptosystems, Inc. to market their cryptographic algorithms, NTRUEncrypt and NTRUSign. Silverman remains a co-VP of NTRU Cryptosystems.

Books

Silverman has written two graduate texts on elliptic curves, "The Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves" (1986) and "Advanced Topics in the Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves" (1994). For these two books he received a Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition from the American Mathematical Society, which cited them by saying that “Silverman's volumes have become standard references on one of the most exciting areas of algebraic geometry and number theory.” Silverman has also written an undergraduate text on elliptic curves "Rational Points on Elliptic Curves" (1992, co-authored with John Tate), as well as graduate-level texts "Diophantine Geometry: An Introduction" (2000, co-authored with Marc Hindry) and "The Arithmetic of Dynamical Systems" (2007).

References

*M. Hindry, J. H .Silverman, "Diophantine geometry: An introduction" ISBN 0-387-98981-1
*J. H .Silverman, "The arithmetic of elliptic curves", ISBN 0-387-96203-4
*J. H .Silverman, "Advanced topics in the arithmetic of elliptic curves", ISBN 0-387-94328-5
*J. H .Silverman, "The arithmetic of dynamical systems", ISBN 978-0-387-69903-5
*J. Tate, J. H .Silverman, "Rational points on elliptic curves", ISBN 0-387-97825-9

External links

* [http://math.brown.edu/~jhs/ Joseph Silverman's home page]
* [http://www.ams.org/notices/199804/comm-steele-prizes.pdf/ 1998 Steele Prizes awarded by the American Mathematical Society]