Harold Stark

This article is about the mathematician. For the American admiral, see Harold Rainsford Stark.

Harold Mead Stark (born August 6, 1939)^[1] is an American mathematician, specializing in number theory. He is best known for his solution^[2] of the Gauss class number 1 problem, in effect correcting and completing the earlier work of Kurt Heegner, and for Stark's conjecture. More recently, he collaborated with Audrey Terras to study zeta functions in graph theory. He is currently on the faculty of the University of California, San Diego.

Harold M. Stark
Born	(1939-08-06) August 6, 1939 (age 86) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Alma mater	California Institute of Technology (BS) University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Known for	Stark conjectures Stark–Heegner theorem
Awards	American Academy of Arts and Sciences United States National Academy of Sciences
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Michigan Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of California, San Diego
Doctoral advisor	Derrick Henry Lehmer
Doctoral students	Jeffrey Hoffstein Jeffrey Lagarias M. Ram Murty Andrew Odlyzko

Stark received his bachelor's degree from the California Institute of Technology in 1961 and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1964. He was on the faculty at the University of Michigan from 1964 to 1968, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1968 to 1980, and at the University of California, San Diego from 1980 to the present.^[3]

Stark was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1983 and to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2007.^[1][3] In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.^[4]

Selected publications

• Stark, Harold M. (1978). An Introduction to Number Theory. Cambridge: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-69060-7.; 1970 edition. Markham Publishing Co.^[5]

See also

• Brumer–Stark conjecture