Ramin Takloo-Bighash (born 1974) is a mathematician who works in the field of automorphic forms and Diophantine geometry and is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Ramin Takloo-Bighash
NationalityAmerican
Alma materSharif University of Technology
Johns Hopkins University
Known forSpinor L-Functions, rational points
Scientific career
FieldsNumber Theory
Arithmetic Geometry
Harmonic Analysis
InstitutionsUniversity of Illinois at Chicago
Princeton University
Doctoral advisorJoseph Shalika
Websitehttp://homepages.math.uic.edu/~rtakloo/

Mathematical career

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Takloo-Bighash graduated from the Sharif University of Technology, where he enrolled after winning a Silver medal at the 1992 International Mathematical Olympiad. In 2001, Takloo-Bighash graduated under Joseph Shalika from Johns Hopkins University. He spent 2001-2007 at Princeton University, first as an instructor and then as an assistant professor. He is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Research

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Takloo-Bighash computed the local factors of spinor L-function attached to generic automorphic forms on the symplectic group GSp(4).[citation needed] He has joint works with Joseph Shalika and Yuri Tschinkel on the distribution of rational points on certain group compactifications.[citation needed] He is a co-author, with Steven J. Miller, of An Invitation To Modern Number Theory (Princeton University Press, 2006).

Books

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  • Takloo-Bighash, Ramin (2018). A Pythagorean Introduction to Number Theory. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer Publishing. p. XVIII, 279. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-02604-2. ISBN 978-3-030-02603-5.
  • Miller, Steven; Takloo-Bighash, Ramin (2006). An Invitation to Modern Number Theory. United States: Princeton University Press. p. 526. ISBN 9780691120607.
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