Robin Pemantle
· Merriam Term Professor of Mathematics, Professor of Statistics and Data ScienceUniversity of Pennsylvania · Statistics and Data Science
Active 1988–2025
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About
Robin Pemantle is a Professor of Mathematics and the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Endowed Professor in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include Modern Discrete Probability and Combinatorics. He is a member of the standing faculty in the Department of Mathematics, contributing to the academic community through his expertise in these areas.
Research topics
- Computer Science
- Combinatorics
- Mathematics
Selected publications
2024-07-11 · 2 citations
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book1st authorCorrespondingI Wish They'd Taught Me That: Overlooked and Omitted Topics in Mathematics concerns the topics which every undergraduate mathematics student "should" know but has probably never encountered. These topics are not the ones which dominate every syllabus, but those magnificent secrets that are beautiful, useful and accessible but which are inexplicably hidden away from the mainstream curriculum. Each chapter of this book concerns a different topic which students will almost certainly be unfamiliar w…
2025-09-18
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Recent grants
The geometry of probability generating functions
NSF · $330k · 2012–2015
Asymptotic enumeration, reinforcement, and effective limit theory
NSF · $207k · 2006–2009
Coalescing systems with random initial conditions
NSF · $180k · 2016–2019
Frequent coauthors
- 70 shared
Yuval Peres
Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications
- 27 shared
Mark C. Wilson
- 19 shared
Stephen Melczer
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
- 19 shared
Yuliy Baryshnikov
- 16 shared
Russell Lyons
Indiana University
- 14 shared
Brian Skyrms
- 14 shared
Henri Picciotto
- 12 shared
Lyle Ungar
California University of Pennsylvania
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