Jacob Fox

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{{short description|American mathematician|bot=PearBOT 5}}

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{{Infobox scientist

| name = Jacob Fox

| image = Jacob fox (cropped).jpg

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| caption = Fox at Oberwolfach in 2016

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1984|04|07}}

| birth_place = Israel

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| nationality = American

| fields = Mathematics

| workplaces = Stanford University

| alma_mater = Princeton University
MIT

| doctoral_advisor = Benny Sudakov

| doctoral_students =

| known_for = Combinatorics

| awards = {{plainlist|1=

• Morgan Prize (2006)
• Dénes Kőnig Prize (2010)
• Oberwolfach Prize (2016)
• Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2014){{cite web|title=The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers: Recipient Details: Jacob Fox|url=https://www.nsf.gov/awards/PECASE/recip_details.jsp?pecase_id=364 | publisher=NSF}}

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| spouse = Kathy Lin

| children = Hannah Fox, David Fox

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Jacob Fox (born Jacob Licht in 1984) is an American mathematician. He is a current professor at Stanford University. His research interests are in Hungarian-style combinatorics, particularly Ramsey theory, extremal graph theory, combinatorial number theory, and probabilistic methods in combinatorics.

Fox grew up in West Hartford, Connecticut and attended Hall High School. As a senior he won second place overall and first place in his category in the annual Intel Science Talent Search,{{citation|url=https://student.societyforscience.org/intel-sts-2002|title=Intel STS 2002|accessdate=December 9, 2017}} also winning the Karl Menger Memorial Prize of the American Mathematical Society for his project. The project was titled "Rainbow Ramsey Theory: Rainbow Arithmetic Progressions and Anti-Ramsey Results"{{citation|url=https://www.ams.org/notices/200208/people.pdf|department=Mathematics People|title=AMS Menger Prizes at the 2002 ISEF|first=Gisele|last=Goldstein|journal=Notices of the American Mathematical Society|page=940|volume=49|issue=8|date=September 2002}} and was based on a research project he did at a six-week summer camp in mathematics, the Research Science Institute (RSI), at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).{{citation|url=https://news.mit.edu/2001/siemans-1107|title=High-schoolers face off in national sci-tech contest at MIT|magazine=MIT News|date=November 7, 2001|publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology}} He also participated in an earlier high school mathematics program at Ohio State University.

Fox became an undergraduate at MIT, and was awarded the 2006 Morgan Prize for several research publications in combinatorics.{{citation|url=https://www.ams.org/notices/200604/comm-morgan.pdf|journal=Notices of the American Mathematical Society|title=2005 Morgan Prize|pages=479–480|volume=53|issue=4|date=April 2006}}

Fox completed his PhD in 2010 from Princeton University; his dissertation, supervised by Benny Sudakov, was titled Ramsey Numbers.{{MathGenealogy |id=151144}}

Fox worked in the mathematics department at MIT from 2010 to 2014, where he continued to teach classes relating to combinatorics. He was also one of the mentors at the Research Science Institute summer program.{{Cite web |title=RSI |url=https://math.mit.edu/research/highschool/rsi/ |access-date=2023-12-04 |website=math.mit.edu}} He joined the faculty of Stanford University in 2015.{{citation|url=http://math.mit.edu/~fox/jacobfoxcv15.pdf|title=Curriculum vitae|date=February 2015|accessdate=December 9, 2017}}

In 2010, Fox was awarded the Dénes Kőnig Prize, an early-career award of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Activity Group on Discrete Mathematics.{{citation|url=https://www.societyforscience.org/content/ssp-blog/alumnus-jacob-fox-wins-konig-prize|title=Alumnus Jacob Fox Wins the Konig Prize|publisher=Society for Science & the Public|date=August 23, 2010|accessdate=December 9, 2017}} He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014.{{citation|url=http://www.icm2014.org/en/program/scientific/section.html|title=Invited section lectures, ICM 2014|accessdate=December 9, 2017|archive-date=January 23, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200123105437/http://www.icm2014.org/en/program/scientific/section.html|url-status=dead}} He was awarded the Oberwolfach Prize in 2016.{{citation|url=https://www.mfo.de/math-in-public/prizes/oberwolfach-prize/|title=Oberwolfach Prize 2016 for Junior Mathematicians|accessdate=February 11, 2018}}