Noam Elkies
Professor of mathematics
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Noam David Elkies is a professor of mathematics at Harvard University. At the age of 26, he became the youngest professor to receive tenure at Harvard. He is also a pianist, chess national master and a chess composer. Wikipedia
Born: 1966 (age 57 years), New York, NY
Education: Harvard University, Columbia University, and Stuyvesant High School
Awards: Paul R. Halmos – Lester R. Ford Award (2004) and Levi L. Conant Prize (2004)
Doctoral students: Henry Cohn
Fields: Mathematics
Thesis: Supersingular primes of a given elliptic curve over a number field (1987)