Greg Kuperberg

Greg Kuperberg is a Polishborn American mathematician known for his contributions to geometric topology, quantum algebra, and combinatorics. Kuperberg is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Davis. He also maintains the Front for the arXiv. Kuperberg used to moderate sci.math.research from time to time.

Kuperberg is the son of two mathematicians, Krystyna Kuperberg and Wodzimierz Kuperberg. He was born in Poland in 1967, but his family emigrated to Sweden in 1969 due to the 1968 Polish political crisis. In 1972, Kuperbergs family moved to the United States, eventually settling in Auburn, Alabama. Kuperberg wrote three computer games for the IBM Personal Computer in 1982 and 1983 Paratrooper, JBird and PCMan. He enrolled at Harvard University in 1983 and received a bachelors degree in 1987. He was ranked Topin the 1986 William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition

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