Joel Spencer

Joel Spencer

Joel Spencer (born April 20 1946)is an American mathematician. He is a combinatorialist who hasworked on probabilistic methods in combinatorics and on Ramsey theory.He received his doctorate from Harvard University in 1970, under the supervision of
Andrew Gleason. [MathGenealogy |id=12998] He is currently (as of 2007) a professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University.

Selected publications

* "Probabilistic methods in combinatorics", with Paul Erdős, New York: Academic Press, 1974.
* "Ramsey theory", with Bruce L. Rothschild and Ronald L. Graham, New York: Wiley, 1980; 2nd ed., 1990.
* "Ten lectures on the probabilistic method", Philadelphia: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1987; 2nd ed., 1994.
* "The probabilistic method", with Noga Alon, New York: Wiley, 1992; 2nd ed., 2000.; 3rd ed., scheduled for 2008
* "The strange logic of random graphs", Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2001.

References

External links

* [http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/faculty/spencer/ Joel Spencer's Website]


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