Joseph H. Silverman


Joseph Hillel Silverman is a professor of mathematics at Brown University working in arithmetic geometry, arithmetic dynamics, and cryptography.
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Biography

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. and at Boston University before taking a position at Brown in 1988.
Silverman has published more than 150 research articles, written or coauthored eight books, and edited three conference proceedings; his work has been cited more than 7500 times, by over 4000 distinct authors. He has served on the editorial boards of Algebra and Number Theory and New York Journal of Mathematics.

Industry

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

Awards

In 2012 Silverman became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He was a Guggenheim Fellow (1998) and is a recipient of the NES MAA Award for Distinguished Teaching.
In 2022, he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians and spoke on the topic "Arithmetic Dynamics."

American Mathematical Society

Silverman has been a member of governance of the American Mathematical Society, including stints on the AMS Council, the AMS Executive Committee, and the AMS Board of Trustees.

Books

Silverman has written two graduate texts on elliptic curves, The Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves and Advanced Topics in the Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves. 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 four undergraduate texts: Rational Points on Elliptic Curves, A Friendly Introduction to Number Theory, An Introduction to Mathematical Cryptography, and Abstract Algebra: An Integrated Approach. Additional graduate-level texts authored by Silverman are Diophantine Geometry: An Introduction and The Arithmetic of Dynamical Systems.

Publications