Biosketch

Ted Hill is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Georgia Institute of Technology, and was a Research Scholar in Residence at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, CA from 2005 to 2023. He is a Distinguished Graduate of West Point's Class of 1966 (the class with the highest casualty rate in Vietnam, and the focus of Rick Atkinson's book The Long Gray Line), and a former U.S. Army Ranger. He holds a Master's degree from Stanford University and a PhD in Mathematics from UC Berkeley.

His main research area is probability theory, with a specific emphasis on optimal stopping theory, fair division problems, and Benford's Law. His research has appeared five times in The American Scientist, and has been cited in New Scientist, the New York Times, and numerous foreign newspapers. He won many international awards including Fulbright and Gauss Professorships, and separate research grants from the National Science Foundations of the United States, the Netherlands, Israel, and the German Academy of Sciences. Ted has given invited lectures about his mathematical discoveries in fifteen countries, in English, German, Spanish, and Dutch, and in 2002 he received an unprecedented invitation for a former enemy combatant to return to Vietnam to speak on his scientific discoveries.

In 2017, the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America jointly published his memoir PUSHING LIMITS: From West Point to Berkeley and Beyond, describing how his good-natured, rebellious spirit led to run-ins with authorities in both his short career with the military and his eventual career as a mathematician - from stealing a jeep in Vietnam to being accused of piracy in the Bahamas and shot at by the police at Wellesley College. Most recently, his memoir (under the title PUSHING LIMITS: Memoir of a Maverick from Soldier to Scholar) is now available in paperback format by Wise Ink Creative Publishing; an Audiobook version was also released in Fall 2020. (Also click on Memoir button for more information.)

In the Netflix series Connected: The Hidden Science of Everything, Latif Nasser interviewed Ted on Benford's Law in "Episode 4: Digits" (streaming globally August 2, 2020).

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At Benford

Math Research Dacha 2016

Montana de Oro 2016

On Mobius Arch 2015

Still Explaining Benfords Law 2010

Diving in Bahamas 2008

Lecturing in HoChiMinh City 2007

Indian Institute for Advanced Study with John Oneal 2007

Fox Glacier New Zealand 2007