Curriculum Vitae

Place of birth: Philadelphia, PA
Date of birth: October 10, 1944

Education:

University of Rochester, Mathematics, M.A. (1968), Ph.D. (1972)
Harvard University, Biophysics, 1965-66
University of Pennsylvania, Philosophy, B.A. (1965)

Employment:

1986-Present Professor of Mathematics

Lehman College (CUNY) and the CUNY Graduate Center

1986-91 Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Lehman College

Professor of Mathematics, Lehman College and the Graduate Center

1981-86 Dean of the Graduate School and Professor of Mathematics, Rutgers-Newark,

and Graduate Faculty in Mathematics, Rutgers-New Brunswick

1971-81 Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Professor of Mathematics (1979-81)
Associate Professor (1975-79)
Assistant Professor (1972-75)
Instructor (1971-72)

Honors

Honors: Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Medal of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Lehman College Award for Excellence in Research

Publications (see publications page for full list)

Author of over 200 research papers in mathematics
Author/editor of over 30 books, including these Springer Graduate Texts:

Additive Number Theory: The Classical Bases

Additive Number Theory: Inverse Problems and the Geometry of Sumsets

Elementary Methods in Number Theory

Related Activities

Organizer of the New York Number Theory Seminar, 1982–present.
President of the Association of Members of the Institute for Advanced Study (AMIAS), 1998-2017.
Service on the AMS Committee on Human Rights (chair), AMS Committee on Science Policy, and AMS Committee on Translations.
Organizer of the annual Workshops on Combinatorial and Additive Number Theory at the CUNY Graduate Center
Organizer of the DIMACS conference Unusual Applications of Number Theory

Visiting Positions:

1970 Lent and Easter terms, University of Cambridge

Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics

1972-1973 Moscow State University, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics

IREX fellowship with I. M. Gelfand

1974-1975 Institute for Advanced Study

Assistant to Andre Weil in the School of Mathematics

1975-1976 Rockefeller University (with Mark Kac and Morris Schreiber) and Brooklyn College (CUNY)

1977-1978 Harvard University, Department of Mathematics and Kennedy School of Government, Program in Science and International Affairs

1990-1991 Institute for Advanced Study, School of Mathematics

1999-2000 Institute for Advanced Study, School of Mathematics

2000-2001 Tel Aviv University, Visiting Professor of Mathematics

Fall, 2007 Institute for Advanced Study, School of Mathematics

Fall, 2008 Princeton University, Department of Mathematics