1. Greg Kuperberg was born on July 4,1967 and is a Polish-born American mathematician known for his contributions to geometric topology, quantum algebra, and combinatorics.
10 Facts About Greg Kuperberg
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Greg Kuperberg was born in Poland in 1967, but his family emigrated to Sweden in 1969 due to the 1968 Polish political crisis.
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In 1972, Greg Kuperberg's family moved to the United States, eventually settling in Auburn, Alabama.
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Greg Kuperberg wrote three computer games for the IBM Personal Computer in 1982 and 1983 : Paratrooper, PC-Man and J-Bird.
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Greg Kuperberg enrolled at Harvard University in 1983 and received a bachelor's degree in 1987.
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Greg Kuperberg was ranked Top 10 in the 1986 William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition.
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From 1991 until 1992, Greg Kuperberg was a NSF postdoctoral fellow and adjunct assistant professor at Berkeley, and from 1992 to 1995 held a Dickson Instructorship at the University of Chicago.
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From 1995 through 1996, Greg Kuperberg was Gibbs Assistant Professor at Yale University after which he joined the mathematics faculty at the University of California, Davis.
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Greg Kuperberg is married to physicist Rena Zieve, who is a professor of physics at UC Davis.
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Greg Kuperberg has over fifty publications, including two in the Annals of Mathematics.