doctoral_advisor nationality fields workplaces birth_date doctoral_students article_title name alma_mater
andrew gleason american mathematics new york university 20 april 1946 peter , babu narayanan , will perkins , juliana friere , dolan s. muthukrishnan , prasad v. tetali , roberto oliviera joel spencer
 joel spencer harvard university
joel spencer

joel spencer -lrb- born april 20 , 1946 -rrb- is an american mathematician .
he is a combinatorialist who has worked on probabilistic methods in combinatorics and on ramsey theory .
he received his doctorate from harvard university in 1970 , under the supervision of andrew gleason .
he is currently -lrb- -rrb- a professor at the courant institute of mathematical sciences of new york university .
in 1984 spencer received a lester r. ford award .
in 2012 he became a fellow of the american mathematical society .
