Igor Rivin
| Igor Rivin | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1961 Moscow, USSR |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Fields | Mathematics, Computer Science, Materials Science |
| Institutions |
University of St. Andrews Temple University Caltech University of Warwick Institute for Advanced Study Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques |
| Alma mater |
Princeton University University of Toronto |
| Doctoral advisor | William Thurston |
| Doctoral students |
Jean-Christophe Curtillet Michael Dobbins |
| Known for | Inscribable polyhedra |
| Notable awards | Whitehead Prize (1998) |
Igor Rivin (born 1961 in Moscow, USSR) is a Russian-Canadian mathematician, working in various fields of pure and applied mathematics, computer science, and materials science. He is the Regius Professor of Mathematics at the University of St. Andrews and the Chief Quantitative Strategist at Accern.
He received his B.Sc (Hon) in Mathematics from the University of Toronto in 1981, and his Ph.D in 1986 from Princeton University under the direction of William Thurston. Following his doctorate, Rivin directed development of QLISP and the Mathematica kernel, before returning to academia in 1992, where he held positions at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, the Institute for Advanced Study, the University of Melbourne, Warwick, and Caltech. Since 1999, Rivin has been professor of mathematics at Temple University. In 2015, he was appointed Regius Professor of Mathematics at the University of St. Andrews.
Rivin's PhD thesis and a series of extensions characterized hyperbolic 3-dimensional polyhedra in terms of their dihedral angles, resolving a long-standing open question of Jakob Steiner on the inscribable combinatorial types. These, and some related results in convex geometry, have been used in 3-manifold topology, theoretical physics, computational geometry, and the recently developed field of discrete differential geometry.
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