Math alum Eric Larson PhD ’18 earned the 2019 Hertz Thesis Prize from the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation for providing a proof for a long-unsolved mathematical problem as his April 2018 doctoral thesis “The Maximal Rank Conjecture.”
“To have a mathematics thesis win a Hertz Thesis Prize is extremely special. It’s never happened before,” said Hertz Fellow Thomas Weaver. “In my opinion, this is the most remarkable thesis in pure math that I’ve ever seen a Hertz Fellow produce.”
Larson continues to work on the interpolation problem with his wife, Isabel Vogt PhD ’19. They will both complete postdoctoral appointments at Stanford next year, then begin tenure-track faculty positions at the University of Washington in 2020.
Read more about Eric’s thesis and the award.
Congratulations Eric!