doctoral_advisor birth_place awards nationality fields workplaces birth_date article_title name alma_mater
john tate new york city leroy p. steele prize -lrb- 1998 -rrb- united states mathematics brown university 27 march 1955 joseph h. silverman
 joseph h. silverman harvard university
joseph h. silverman

joseph hillel silverman -lrb- born march 27 , 1955 , new york city -rrb- is a professor of mathematics at brown university .
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. -lrb- 1982-1986 -rrb- and at boston university -lrb- 1986-1988 -rrb- before taking a position at brown in 1988 .
silverman 's work has been in number theory , arithmetic geometry , arithmetic dynamics and cryptography .
he has published more than 100 research articles , written or coauthored six books , and edited three conference proceedings .
in 1996 , silverman , along with jeffrey hoffstein , jill pipher and daniel lieman , founded ntru cryptosystems , inc. to market their cryptographic algorithms , ntruencrypt and ntrusign .
in 2012 he became a fellow of the american mathematical society .
