Edward William Formanek (born May 6, 1942)[1][2] is an American mathematician and chess player.
He is a professor emeritus of mathematics at Pennsylvania State University,[3][4] and a FIDE International Master in chess.
[1] Formanek earned his Ph.D. in 1970 from Rice University, under the supervision of Stephen M.
[7] With Vesselin Drensky, Formanek is the author of the book Polynomial Identity Rings (Birkhäuser, 2004).
[12] Later the same year HiTech would also defeat grandmaster Arnold Denker.