Joseph Hillel Silverman (born March 27, 1955) is a professor of mathematics at Brown University working in arithmetic geometry, arithmetic dynamics, and cryptography.
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Biography
Joseph Silverman received an Sc.B. from Brown University in 1977 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1982 under the direction of John Tate. He taught at M.I.T. (1982–1986) and at Boston University (1986–1988) before taking a position at Brown in 1988.
Silverman has published more than 150 research articles, written or coauthored eight books, and edited three conference proceedings; his work has been cited more than 7500 times, by over 4000 distinct authors. He has served on the editorial boards of Algebra and Number Theory and New York Journal of Mathematics.