Steven J. Miller


Steven Joel Miller is a mathematician who specializes in analytic number theory and has also worked in applied fields such as sabermetrics and linear programming. He is a co-author, with Ramin Takloo-Bighash, of An Invitation to Modern Number Theory, and with Midge Cozzens of The Mathematics of Encryption: An Elementary Introduction. He also edited Theory and Applications of Benford's Law and wrote The Mathematics of Optimization: How to do things faster.
Miller earned his B.S. in mathematics and physics at Yale University and completed his graduate studies in mathematics at Princeton University. He is currently a professor of mathematics at Williams College, where he has served as the Director of the Williams SMALL REU Program and is currently the faculty president of the Williams Phi Beta Kappa chapter. He's also a faculty fellow at the Erdos Institute.
He was included in the 2019 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to number theory and service to the mathematical community, particularly in support of mentoring undergraduate research".