Larry Guth
fl. 1973, United States
AnalysisGeometryCombinatorics and discrete mathematics
American mathematician whose polynomial partitioning method transformed incidence geometry and harmonic analysis.
Larry Guth introduced polynomial partitioning, a method that divides space into cells while controlling how algebraic varieties intersect the partition. It produced breakthroughs in incidence geometry, restriction estimates, and the Kakeya problem, often in collaboration with Bourgain and Katz.
Workplaces: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
United States