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He received both the Bachelor of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard University, where he was a two-time Putnam Fellow.
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The Grasshopper King
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Chandler State University is the one thing keeping the dusty, Western town of Chandler on the map. Now that its basketball program has fallen apart, CSU’s only claim to fame is its Gravinics Department, dedicated to the study of an obscure European country—its mythology, its extraordinarily difficult language, and especially its bizarre star poet, Henderson. Having discovered Henderson’s poetry in a trash bin, Stanley Higgs becomes the foremost scholar of the poet’s work, accepts a position at Chandler State University, achieves international academic fame, marries the Dean’s daughter, and abruptly stops talking. With all of academia convinced that Higgs is formulating a great truth, the university employs Orwellian techniques to record Higgs’s every potential utterance and to save its reputation. A feckless Gravinics language student, Samuel Grapearbor, together with his long-suffering girlfriend Julia, is hired to monitor Higgs during the day. Over endless games of checkers and shared sandwiches, a uniquely silent friendship develops. As one man struggles to grow up and the other grows old, The Grasshopper King, in all of his glory, emerges. In this debut novel about treachery, death, academia, marriage, mythology, history, and truly horrible poetry, Jordan Ellenberg creates a world complete with its own geography, obscene folklore, and absurdly endearing -characters—a world where arcane subjects flourish and the smallest swerve from convention can result in -immortality. Jordan Ellenberg was born in Potomac, Maryland in 1971. His brilliance as a mathematical prodigy led to a feature in The National Enquirer, an interview with Charlie Rose on CBS’s Nightwatch, and gold medals at the Math Olympiad in Cuba and Germany. He is now an Assistant Professor of Math at Princeton University and his column, "Do the Math," appears regularly in the online journal Slate. This is his first novel.
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Jordan Ellenberg
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Career
His research covers a wide variety of topics within arithmetic geometry. In addition to his research articles, he has authored a novel, The Grasshopper King, which was a finalist for the 2004 Young Lions Fiction Award. The "Do the Mathematics" column in Slate.
A non-fiction book, How Not to Be Wrong.
And various articles on mathematical topics in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Wired, Seed, and The Believer. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Ellenberg was a child prodigy who taught himself to read at the age of 2 by watching Sesame Street. His mother discovered his ability one day while she was driving on the Capital Beltway when her toddler informed her: "The sign says 'Bethesda is to the right."" In second grade, he helped his teenaged babysitter with her math homework.
Walstein took Ellenberg under his wing and oversaw his mathematical development.
And by eighth grade, he had started college-level work. He was part of the Johns Hopkins University Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth longitudinal cohort. He scored a perfect 800 on the math portion and a 680 on the verbal portion of the SAT-I exam at the age of 12.
When he was in eighth grade, he took honors calculus classes at the University of Maryland.
When he was a junior at Winston Churchill High School, he earned a perfect score of 1600 on the SAT. And as a high school senior, he placed second in the national Westinghouse Science Talent Search.
He was also a two-time Putnam fellow (1990 and 1992) while at Harvard.
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The Grasshopper King
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The Grasshopper King
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By fourth grade, he was participating in high school competitions (such as the American Regions Mathematics League) as a member of the Montgomery County math team
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