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“Jonathan
Farley is one of the world’s most impressive young mathematicians....
He is a model of excellence for young people of all backgrounds, but
especially African-Americans who may see their intellectual potential
in him. Harvard is proud to honor his achievements and acknowledge his
fine example.”
—
Professor
S. Allen Counter, Harvard University, and Consul General of Sweden
in
Boston and New England (Jet Magazine, July 19, 2004)
“...the incomparable, brilliant Jonathan Farley.”
—
Danica McKellar, star of the hit television show The Wonder Years, in her New York Times best-selling book, Hot X: Algebra Exposed, 2010

Jonathan
Farley seated next to the late U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy,
the late Congresswoman Jo Ann Davis, and Congressman Silvestre Reyes. |
Seed
Magazine named Dr. Farley one of “15
people who have shaped the global conversation about science in 2005.”
In 2005, Dr. Farley was given the key to the City of Columbia, South Carolina
(the state capital). He worked for The Warren Group, advisors to the 2010 Democratic Party nominee for U.S. Senate in South Carolina.
Dr. Farley is the 2004 recipient of the Harvard
Foundation’s Distinguished Scientist of the Year Award, a medal
presented on behalf of the president of Harvard University in recognition
of “outstanding achievements and contributions in the field of mathematics.”
The
City of Cambridge, Massachusetts (home to both Harvard University
and MIT)
officially declared March 19, 2004 to be “Dr.
Jonathan David Farley Day.” In 2004, Dr. Farley was recruited
to serve as Head of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
at The
University of the West Indies (Jamaica).
He
received tenure at Vanderbilt University
in 2003, but fled Tennessee after receiving death threats from supporters
of the founder of the Ku Klux Klan.
In
2001-2002, Dr. Farley was a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar to the United
Kingdom. He was one of only four Americans to win this award in 2001-2002.
Jonathan
Farley obtained his doctorate in mathematics from Oxford University in
1995, after winning Oxford’s highest mathematics awards, the Senior
Mathematical Prize and Johnson University Prize, in 1994.
Farley
graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1991 with the second-highest
grade point average in his graduating class. (He earned 29 A’s
and 3 A-’s.) While there, he won, among other awards, Harvard’s
Wendell Prize,
for the “most promising and catholic [small ‘c’] sophomore
scholar.”
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