Mathematician:Lawrence Clinton Washington

Mathematician

American mathematician specializing in number theory.

Nationality

American

History

• Born: 1951, Vermont
• 1971: B.A and Masters at Johns Hopkins University
• 1974: Ph.D. at Princeton University under Kenkichi Iwasawa
• 1974: Assistant professor at Stanford University
• 1977: Assistant professor at University of Maryland
• 1979 -- 1981: Sloan fellow
• 1980 -- 1981: Visiting professor at Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques
• 1981: Associate professor at University of Maryland
• 1984: Visiting professor at Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik
• 1986: Professor at University of Maryland
• 1986 -- 1987: Visiting professor at Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
• 1996: Visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study

Theorems and Definitions

• Ferrero-Washington Theorem (with Bruce Ferrero)

Publications

• 1975: Class numbers and $\Z_p$ extensions (Math. Ann. Vol. 214: pp. 177 – 193)
• 1979: The Iwasawa invariant $μ_p$ vanishes for abelian number fields (Ann. Math. Vol. 109: pp. 377 – 395) (with Bruce Ferrero)
• 1995: P-adic L functions and higher dimensional magic cubes (J. Number Theor. Vol. 52: p. p.179) (with Allan Adler)
• 1997: Galois Cohomology (Modular Forms and Fermat's Last Theorem pp. 101 – 120) (edited by Gary Cornell, Joseph H. Silverman and Glenn Stevens)
• 2013: An Introduction to Number Theory with Cryptography (with James S. Kraft)