Andrew Sutherland

Andrew Victor Sutherland is an American mathematician and Principal Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research focuses on computational aspects of number theory and arithmetic geometry. He is known for his contributions to several projects involving large scale computations, including the Polymath project on bounded gaps between primes, the L-functions and Modular Forms Database, the sums of three cubes project, and the computation and classification of Sato-Tate distributions. Education and career Sutherland earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from MIT in 1990. Following an entrepreneurial career in the software industry he returned to MIT and completed his doctoral degree in mathematics in 2007 under the supervision of Michael Sipser and Ronald Rivest, winning the George M. Sprowls prize for his thesis. He joined the MIT mathematics department as a Research Scientist in 2009, and was promoted to Principal Research Scientist in 2011. He is one of the principal investigators in the Simons Collaboration on Arithmetic Geometry, Number Theory, and Computation, a large multi-university collaboration involving Boston University, Brown, Harvard, MIT, and Dartmouth College, and he currently serves as an Associate Editor of Mathematics of Computation, Editor in Chief of Research in Number Theory, Managing Editor of the L-functions and Modular Forms Database, and President of the Number Theory Foundation. Contributions