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Igor Rivin
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He is the Regius Professor of Mathematics at the University of Saint Andrews. He received his B.Sc (Honorary) in Mathematics from the University of Toronto in 1981, and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1986 from Princeton University under the direction of William Thurston. Following his doctorate, Rivin directed development of QLISP and the Mathematica kernel, before returning to academia in 1992, where he held positions at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, the Institute for Advanced Study, the University of Melbourne, Warwick, and Caltech.
Since 1999, Rivin has been professor of mathematics at Temple University.
In 2015, he was appointed Regius Professor of Mathematics at the University of Saint Andrews. Rivin"s Doctor of Philosophy thesis and a series of extensions characterized hyperbolic 3-dimensional polyhedra in terms of their dihedral angles, resolving a long-standing open question of Jakob Steiner on the inscribable combinatorial types.
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Rivin"s Doctor of Philosophy thesis and a series of extensions characterized hyperbolic 3-dimensional polyhedra in terms of their dihedral angles, resolving a long-standing open question of Jakob Steiner on the inscribable combinatorial types. These, and some related results in convex geometry, have been used in 3-manifold topology, theoretical physics, computational geometry, and the recently developed field of discrete differential geometry. Rivin has also made advances in counting geodesics on surfaces, the study of generic elements of discrete subgroups of Lie groups, and in the theory of dynamical systems Rivin is also active in applied areas, having written large parts of the Mathematica 2.0 kernel, and he developed a database of hypothetical zeolites in collaboration with M. M. J. Treacy. Rivin is a frequent contributor to MathOverflow. First prize, Canadian Mathematical Olympiad, 1977 Whitehead prize of the London Mathematical Society, 1998 Advanced Research Fellowship of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, 1998 Lady Davis Fellowship at the Hebrew University, 2006 Berlin Mathematical School Professorship, 2011. Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2014.
