John Pardon

John Vincent Pardon (born June 1989) is an American mathematician who works on geometry and topology.

He is currently a permanent member of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics and a full professor of mathematics at Princeton University.

[3] In 2007, Pardon placed second in the Intel Science Talent Search competition, with a generalization to rectifiable curves of the carpenter's rule problem for polygons.

[2] He went to Stanford University for his graduate studies, where his accomplishments included solving the three-dimensional case of the Hilbert–Smith conjecture.

[9] In 2017, Pardon received the National Science Foundation’s Alan T. Waterman Award for his contributions to geometry and topology.