Jeffrey C. Lagarias

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Professor, Dept. of Mathematics 

Address: Jeffrey C. Lagarias
        Department of Mathematics
        University of Michigan
        East Hall, Room 3086
        530 Church Street
        Ann Arbor MI 48109-1043

Phone: 734-763-1186
Fax:   734-763-0937
Email: lagarias@umich.edu>

Research Interests:

Number Theory; also: Computational Complexity Theory,
Cryptography, Discrete and Computational Geometry,
Dynamical Systems, Harmonic Analysis, Low-Dimensional Topology,
Mathematical Physics, Optimization

  • Courses Winter 2012

  • Undergraduate Math Club Winter 2012

  • Previous Courses

  • Schedule

  • Advisees (Ph.D.'s and Graduate Students)

  • New York Times article "Packing Tetrahedrons, and Closing In on a Perfect Fit"(Science Times, Jan. 5, 2010)

  • Elizabeth Chen thesis defense (Ann Arbor Chronicle, February 14, 2010)

  • Book: The Ultimate Challenge: The 3x+1 Problem (J. C. Lagarias, Ed.), American Math. Society: Providence, RI 2010

  • Book: The Kepler Conjecture. The Hales-Ferguson Proof by Thomas C. Hales, Samuel P. Ferguson (J. C. Lagarias, Ed.), Springer-Verlag:New York 2011

  • MAA George Polya Lecturer: 2011-2012, 2012-2013

    • Additional Information:

  • CV (pdf)
  • Publication List (pdf)

  • Preprints posted on the arXiv, viewable at [http://front.math.ucdavis.edu]
  • Recent preprints (incomplete-see arxiv)
  • 3X+1 Problem
  • Complete publication list in HTML with links to some papers available electronically.

  • Lists of papers organized by subject :
    (Some papers appear in more than one list.)
  • algorithms/ computational complexity
  • combinatorial games
  • convex geometry
  • cryptography
  • diophantine approximation and continued fractions
  • discrete mathematics and combinatorial optimization
  • ergodic theory and symbolic dynamics
  • knot theory
  • mathematical programming and optimization
  • neural nets
  • number theory: algebraic and elementary
  • packings and tilings
  • 3x+1 problem and related problems
  • quasicrystals
  • wavelets and fractals
  • zeta functions and related topics
  • talks
    • Last updated February 20, 2010 (links to papers before 1987 are currently broken)