Year of Award: 2008

Award: Lester R. Ford

Publication Information: The American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 114, (2007), pp. 882-894

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About the Author: (from The American Mathematical Monthly, (2007)) Thomas C. Hales received his M.S. from Stanford in the School of Engineering and his Ph.D. (1986) from Princeton in mathematics. He has taught at Harvard, the University of Chicago, and the University of Michigan. He is currently the Andrew Mellon Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pittsburgh. His honors include the Chauvenet Prize (2003) of the MAA and the Moore Prize (2004) for applications of interval analysis. His research interests include representation theory, motivic integration, discrete geometry, and formal proofs.