Jordan Ellenberg

Who is Jordan Ellenberg?

Jordan Stuart Ellenberg is an American mathematician working as a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research covers a wide variety of topics within arithmetic geometry. He received both the A.B. and Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he was a two-time Putnam Fellow.

In addition to his research articles, he has authored a novel, The Grasshopper King, which was a finalist for the 2004 Young Lions Fiction Award, and which is published by Coffee House Press; the Do the Math column in the online journal Slate; a non-fiction book, How Not to Be Wrong; and various articles on mathematical topics in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Wired, Seed, and The Believer.

In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.