Education
Harvard University; Yale University.
Harvard University; Yale University.
His research areas include discrete mathematics, theory of computation and probability theory. He is currently a Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Dartmouth College. Peter Winkler studied mathematics at Harvard University and later received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1975 from Yale University.
He has also served as an Assistant Professor at Stanford, Full Professor and Chair at Emory and as a Mathematics Research Director at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies.
He has also published two books on mathematical puzzles: Mathematical Puzzles: A connoisseur"s collection (A K Peters, 2004, ) and Mathematical Mind-Benders (A K Peters, 2007, ).