Timothy Chow

Timothy Y. Chow is a mathematician who earned his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995 under the supervision of Richard Stanley, with a dissertation on symmetric function generalizations of graph polynomials. He is currently affiliated with MIT Lincoln Laboratory and has published extensively in combinatorics, discrete mathematics, and mathematical exposition. He is known for work on Rota's basis conjecture, Latin tableaux, Hessenberg varieties, and expository pieces such as his article on the consistency of arithmetic and his proof that pi is irrational.