Curtis T. McMullen
Curtis Tracy McMullen is an American mathematician who is the Cabot Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1998 for his work in complex dynamics, hyperbolic geometry and Teichmüller theory.Biography
McMullen graduated as valedictorian in 1980 from Williams College and obtained his Ph.D. in 1985 from Harvard University, supervised by Dennis Sullivan. He held post-doctoral positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, and the Institute for Advanced Study, after which he was on the faculty at Princeton University and the University of California, Berkeley, before joining Harvard in 1997.McMullen received the Salem Prize in 1991 and won the Fields Medal in 1998 at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin. At the 1990 ICM in Kyoto he was an Invited Speaker. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2007 and in 2012 became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.Trivia
McMullen has delivered an exposition that backgammon ends with probability one.Major publications
- McMullen, Curt. The Hausdorff dimension of general Sierpiński carpets. Nagoya Math. J. 96, 1–9.
- McMullen, Curt. Area and Hausdorff dimension of Julia sets of entire functions. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 300, no. 1, 329–342.
- Eskin, Alex; McMullen, Curt. Mixing, counting, and equidistribution in Lie groups. Duke Math. J. 71, no. 1, 181–209.
- McMullen, Curtis T. Billiards and Teichmüller curves on Hilbert modular surfaces. J. Amer. Math. Soc. 16, no. 4, 857–885.
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