Ilan Vardi

Ilan Vardi (* 29 March 1957 in Paris) is a Canadian mathematician.

Vardi studierte an der McGill University (Bachelor-Abschluss 1978) und wurde 1982 am Massachusetts Institute of Technology bei Dorian Goldfeld promoviert (On the spectrum of the metaplectic group with applications to Dedekind Sums). Als Post-Doc war er 1982/83 als Assistent von Atle Selberg am Institute for Advanced Study.

Afterwards, he was an assistant professor at Stanford University and from 1989 to 1991 in the development of algorithms at Wolfram Research. He was a visiting professor at INRIA in Rocquencourt (1989, 1991, 1998), Rutgers University, IHES (1999-2000) and Caltech, guest professor at Macalester College, St. Paul (Minnesota), Oklahoma State University and on the MSRI.

Currently he is at the École polytechnique.

Vardi is particularly concerned with theory of numbers, algorithm development, coding theory, and wrote a book on mathematics of entertainment for the programming language Mathematica. Edit source text Weblinks Edit sourcetext Standard data (person): LCCN: n85823421 VIAF: 34539024 Wikipedia People Search | No GND person record. Last check: January 14, 2017. GND name entry: 151821542 (AKS)

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