1. John Vincent Pardon was born on June 1989 and is an American mathematician who works on geometry and topology.
14 Facts About John Pardon
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John Pardon is primarily known for having solved Gromov's problem on distortion of knots, for which he was awarded the 2012 Morgan Prize.
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John Pardon is currently a permanent member of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics and a full professor of mathematics at Princeton University.
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Pardon's father, William Pardon, is a mathematics professor at Duke University, and when Pardon was a high school student at the Durham Academy he took classes at Duke.
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John Pardon was a three-time gold medalist at the International Olympiad in Informatics, in 2005,2006, and 2007.
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In 2007, John Pardon placed second in the Intel Science Talent Search competition, with a generalization to rectifiable curves of the carpenter's rule problem for polygons.
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John Pardon published this research in the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society in 2009.
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John Pardon then went to Princeton University, where after his sophomore year he primarily took graduate-level mathematics classes.
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At Princeton, John Pardon solved a problem in knot theory posed by Mikhail Gromov in 1983 about whether every knot can be embedded into three-dimensional space with bounded stretch factor.
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John Pardon showed that, on the contrary, the stretch factor of certain torus knots could be arbitrarily large.
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John Pardon's proof was published in the Annals of Mathematics in 2011, and earned him the Morgan Prize of 2012.
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John Pardon took part in a Chinese-language immersion program at Princeton, and was part of Princeton's team at an international debate competition in Singapore, broadcast on Chinese television.
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In 2017, Pardon received the National Science Foundation's Alan T Waterman Award for his contributions to geometry and topology.
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John Pardon was elected to the 2018 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society.