Joseph H. Silverman

Joseph Hillel Silverman (born 1955) is a mathematician and professor at Brown University whose work lies in arithmetic geometry, arithmetic dynamics and cryptography. He received his Sc.B. from Brown in 1977 and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1982 under John Tate, taught at M.I.T. and Boston University, and joined Brown in 1988. He has published more than 150 research articles and written eight books. His two graduate texts on elliptic curves, The Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves (1986) and Advanced Topics in the Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves (1994), earned him the American Mathematical Society Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition and are described there as standard references on an exciting area of algebraic geometry and number theory. In 1996 he co-founded NTRU Cryptosystems with Jeffrey Hoffstein, Jill Pipher and Daniel Lieman to market the NTRUEncrypt and NTRUSign algorithms. He became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012, served on its governing bodies, and spoke on arithmetic dynamics at the 2022 International Congress of Mathematicians.