Bruce Reznick

Professor
"The John and Harriet J. Absentminded Professor of Mathematics"
Department of Mathematics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1409 W. Green Street
Urbana, Illinois 61801-2975

Office: 327 Altgeld Hall
Office Tel: (217)333-4284
Dept. FAX: (217) 333-9576
e-mail:reznick@math.uiuc.edu

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  • Biographical Sketch
  • List of Research Publications
  • List of Other Publications

    • Spring 2013 Course pages

  • Math 453 Number Theory, MWF 11, 341 Altgeld

  • Math 496 Introduction to Mathematical Research, MWF 2, 243 Altgeld

    Fall 2012 Course page

  • Math 424 Honors Analysis, MWF 2, 343 Altgeld. (Alternate URL:Math 424.)

    Math 499 Beamer Talk, March 29, 2013

  • The secret lives of polynomial identities

    Seattle Beamer Talk, May 18, 2012

  • The secret lives of polynomial identities My 5/18/12 talk, with a few corrections.

    Chicago Beamer Talk, December 8, 2011

  • An updated version of the "steampunk canonical forms'' talk.

    Banff Beamer Talk, November 17, 2011

  • A shorter version of the seminar talks, with some new stuff

    Seminars on November 1, 2011

  • Longer abstract of my two seminar talks in number theory and geometry/AGC on November 1, 2011.
  • Linearly dependent powers of quadratic forms A combination of the beamer slides for the two seminars.

    Algecom5 Beamer Talk, October 29, 2011

  • Steampunk canonical forms 10/29/11 talk, an evolution of the talks of 3/19/11 and 10/7/11.

    Raleigh and Steampunk Canonical Form Material

  • Material relevant to my presentation at the SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry, 10/7/11.

    Claremont Beamer Talk

  • The secret lives of polynomial identities My 9/21/11 talk.

    Konstanz Beamer Talk

  • The secret lives of polynomial identities My 6/30/11 talk, with a few corrections.

    Iowa Beamer Talk

  • Material relevant to my presentation at the Iowa City Sectional Meeting, 3/19/11

    Math 499 (2010-2011) Talk

  • The secret lives of polynomial identities

    Presentation at the Memorial to Jerry Uhl, held on 11/6/10:

  • Adaptation of retirement talk given on 5/4/08

    Presentation at the Gathering for Gardner, held on 10/21/10:

  • Thanks from an appreciative reader

    Notices of the AMS Book review

  • "From Zero To Infinity, 50th Anniversary Edition" by Constance Reid

    When it comes to advice, I'm full of it

  • "Teaching Philosophy"
  • "Chalking It Up: Advice to a new TA"
  • "Resources for research"
  • "One introduction to mathematical research", or "You've proved a theorem, now what?"
  • "Some thoughts on writing for the Putnam"



    • Areas of Specialization

    Combinatorial methods in algebra, analysis and number theory, usually involving polynomials or polytopes.

    .pdf files of recent papers (most recent at top)

  • Preprint Some new canonical forms for polynomials
  • Preprint Congruence properties of binary partition functions (with Katherine Anders, Melissa Dennison and Jennifer Weber Lansing), Revised version
  • Preprint On the sums of two cubes (with Jeremy Rouse), Revised version
  • Preprint Blenders, Revised version
  • Preprint On the length of binary forms, Final Revised version
  • Preprint Polya's theorem with zeros (with Vicki Powers and Mari Castle)
  • Preprint Laws of inertia in higher degree binary forms
  • Preprint On Hilbert's construction of positive polynomials
  • Preprint Regularity properties of the Stern enumeration of the rationals
  • Preprint A quantitative Polya's theorem with zeros (with Vicki Powers and Mari Castle)
  • Preprint Clean lattice tetrahedra
  • Preprint A quantitative Polya's theorem with corner zeros (with Vicki Powers)
  • Preprint Almost alternating sums (with Kevin O'Bryant and Monika Serbinowska)
  • Preprint Polynomials positive on unbounded rectangles (with Vicki Powers)
  • Preprint On the absence of uniform denominators in Hilbert's 17th problem
  • Preprint A new approach to Hilbert's theorem on ternary quartics (with Vicki Powers, Claus Scheiderer and Frank Sottile)
  • Preprint On the Diophantine equation xy = ymx (with Michael Bennett)
  • Preprint Patterns of dependence among powers of polynomials
  • Preprint Lattice polytopes with distinct pair-sums (with M. D. Choi and T. Y. Lam)
  • Preprint A new bound for Polya's Theorem with applications to polynomials positive on polyhedra (with Vicki Powers)
  • Preprint Notes towards a constructive proof of Hilbert's Theorem on ternary quartics (with Vicki Powers)
  • Preprint Polynomials that are positive on an interval (with Vicki Powers)
  • Preprint Some Concrete Aspects of Hilbert's 17th Problem
  • Preprint On the non-monotonicity of (|Im(zn)|)
  • Preprint The maximum angular gap among rectangular grid points (with Zoltan Furedi)
  • Reprint Homogeneous polynomial solutions to constant coefficient PDE's over fields
  • Reprint Uniform denominators in Hilbert's Seventeenth Problem
  • Preprint Sums of even powers of real linear forms, chapter by chapter.
  • Reprint An inequality for products of polynomials

    • Seminar Notes

  • Notes Equal sums of higher powers of quadratic forms

    • Ph.D. Students

    Prof. Julie Simon (Ph.D. 1989)
    Prof. William Harris (Ph.D. 1992)
    Ms. Colleen Kilker (1977-2002)
    Prof. Ricardo Rojas (Ph.D. 2008)
    Prof. Han Duong (Ph.D. 2008)
    Prof. Supawadee Prugsapitak (Ph.D. 2009)
    Prof. Melissa Dennison (Ph.D. 2010)
    Mr. Milos Curcic
    Ms. Jennifer Weber Lansing
    Ms. Katie Anders
    Ms. Wipawee Tangjai

    Podcast!


    Strongly Connected Components

    Updated May 4, 2012