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Jul 01, 1974 Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States 49 years old
American mathematician
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About Kiran Kedlaya
- Kiran Sridhara Kedlaya (; born July 1974) is an Indian American mathematician.
- He currently is a Professor of Mathematics and the Stefan E.
- Warschawski Chair in Mathematics at the University of California, San Diego. At age 16, Kedlaya won a gold medal at the International Mathematics Olympiad, and would later win a silver and another gold medal.
- While an undergraduate student at Harvard, he was a three-time Putnam Fellow.
- A 1996 article by The Harvard Crimson described him as "the best college-age student in math in the United States".Kedlaya was runner-up for the 1995 Morgan Prize, for a paper in which he substantially improved on results of László Babai and Vera Sós (1985) on the size of the largest product-free subset of a finite group of order n. He gave an invited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010, on the topic of "Number Theory".In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.He was also a contestant on the game show Jeopardy! in 2011, winning one episode.
