Avner Ash

Avner Ash is Professor of Mathematics at Boston College.
His recent research is mostly in Number Theory, at an intersection of topology, group theory and Galois theory.

His Ph.D. was awarded at Harvard under the direction of David Mumford. He has held faculty positions at Columbia and The Ohio State University. He has been a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study, Yale, the University of Toronto, Cambridge University, Boston University, Harvard, and King’s College London. He was a Sloan Fellow and currently is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

In addition to mathematics courses, Professor Ash has taught undergraduate honors seminars at BC on the European cultural tradition 1900-1950.

Professor Ash and his Boston College colleague Rob Gross have co-authored three books aimed at a “general but mathematically literate” audience. Their most recent book is Summing It Up: from One Plus One to Modern Number Theory, Princeton University Press, 2016.