Neal Koblitz
Professor of
Mathematics
University of WashingtonDepartment of Mathematics
Box 354350
Seattle, Washington 98195-4350
USA
Office: C-335 Padelford Hall
Phone: (206) 543-4386
Fax: (206) 543-0397
E-mail: koblitz@math.washington.edu
The photo was taken at Ticlio Pass, Peru. The
sign says ``Highest railway point in the world: 4818 meters, 15806 feet.'' NOTE:
On July 1, 2006 Peru lost its first place position when China opened a railway
connection between Golmud and Lhasa that crosses a
mountain pass at 5072 meters (16644 feet).
NOTE: If you've landed here by mistake and are looking for Ann Hibner Koblitz, then click onto her name to get the Professor Koblitz you really want. Her blog "Sex, Abortion, and Contraception" can be found here; it is a supplement to her third book, titled Sex and Herbs and Birth Control: Women and Fertility Regulation Through the Ages. Her wikipedia page is here.
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Information
for Calderwood Seminar Students – Winter 2021: syllabus
Early Fall Start: I teach an intensive 4-week 5-credit course for incoming students at U.W.
on "Secret
Codes and Online Security" in the Early Fall Start program; a video
for students about Early Fall Start can be found here.
My September 2014 letter to the Seattle Times about the dispute between Amazon and the publishing conglomerates. Footnote to the letter: According to the University of Washington's cost estimates, on the average a student needs to spend over $1200 per year on textbooks. That's outrageous! UPDATE (2021): The estimate is now $900 per year, most likely because of e-textbooks.
Declining the invitation to be an "AMS Fellow" -- September 2012 Letter to the AMS Notices
See also David Eisenbud's excellent analysis.
Branch campuses abroad -- December 2011 letter to The Chronicle of Higher Education
My reply to a request from BBC/Vietnamese for comments about the Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics (VIASM) -- in English and Vietnamese; my interview with Fields medalist and VIASM director Ngo Bao Chau can be found here.
Vietnam Trip Report -- March 2010
Higher Education Controversy in Vietnam
- How to Lie with Statistics
- California universities' interest in
a World-Bank financed Vietnam project
- Getting financial advantages for the
U.S. from Vietnam
- Warning words of prominent
journalist Anne Williamson
- Dangers in exaggerating Vietnam's
failings
- Cautionary words of a Stanford
expert on partnerships in higher education
- Comments on the U.S.-Vietnam
Education Task Force Final Report
- Could some top Vietnamese officials
be having second thoughts?
- Further thoughts on bureaucracy,
waste, corruption, autonomy & governance
Anti-Vietnam bias in The New York Review of Books
English translation of Grothendieck's report on his 1967 visit to Vietnam
Autobiography
- "Random
Curves: Journeys of a Mathematician" (published by Springer in
late 2007)
Research
- Critique of
"provable security" --- website designed by Alfred Menezes
- List of Publications
- See here
for a videoabstract of "ECC: The Serpentine
Course of a Paradigm Shift".
Honors
- Women's Emancipation Medal of the Vietnam Women's
Union, 1995
- Honored Faculty Award, Minority Science and Engineering
Program (UW College of Engineering), 1996
- Honorary Doctorate, Vietnam Academy of Science and
Technology, 2009
- RSA
Award for Excellence in Mathematics, 2009
- President's Friendship Medal of the Government of
Vietnam, 2010
- Socio de Honor (Honorary Member), Sociedad
Cubana de Matemática
y Computación, 2019
- Information Systems
Security Association Hall of Fame, Class of 2019
- Eduard Rhein Foundation Technology Award, 2020; in
wikipedia
- Levchin
Prize in Real World Cryptography, 2021; in wikipedia
Pre-University Math
Education
The Kovalevskaia Fund
(website designed by Alfred Menezes)
