Jerrold Tunnell
American mathematician
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| Intro | American mathematician | |
| A.K.A. | Jerrold B. Tunnell | |
| A.K.A. | Jerrold B. Tunnell | |
| Places | United States of America | |
| is | Mathematician Professor Educator | |
| Work field | Academia Mathematics | |
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Jerrold Bates Tunnell (born September 16 1950) is a professor of mathematics at Rutgers University, specializing in number theory. He is perhaps best known for the Langlands–Tunnell theorem, which establishes a certain special case of the Artin conjecture and was a key component in the proof of Fermat's last theorem. He also proved a theorem concerning congruent numbers.
He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He graduated from Harvard University.