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Allen Knutson

b. 1969

Mathematician

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Born 1969. Allen Knutson is an American mathematician, circus performer and university teacher.

Allen Ivar Knutson is an American mathematician who is a professor of mathematics at Cornell University.

Education Knutson graduated from Stuyvesant High School and completed his undergraduate studies at the California Institute of Technology

Career He was on the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley before moving to the University of California, San Diego in 2005 and then to Cornell University in 2009. In 2005, he and Terence Tao won the Levi L. Conant Prize of the American Mathematical Society for their paper "Honeycombs and Sums of Hermitian Matrices". He was an invited speaker at the 2022 International Congress of Mathematicians.

Knutson is also known for his studies of the mathematics of juggling. For five years beginning in 1990, he and fellow Caltech student David Morton held a world record for passing 12 balls.

Personal life Knutson is the son of Donald Ivar Knutson, an American mathematician and financial executive at CBS.

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California Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Employers
University of California, Berkeley, Cornell University, University of California, San Diego

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Who is Allen Knutson?

mathematician

When was Allen Knutson born?

Allen Knutson was born on 24 October 1969.

What is Allen Knutson's occupation?

Allen Knutson is a mathematician, circus performer and university teacher.

What nationality is Allen Knutson?

Allen Knutson is American.

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· Wikidata: Q4731739

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