He has produced a number of fundamental results many of which are being widely used in the field of theoretical computer science, database processing and compiler optimization.
in Natural Sciences from Shimer College and a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He is married to Maria Klawe, former President of Harvey Mudd College.
[2] The complexity class, Nick's Class (NC), of problems quickly solvable on a parallel computer, was named by Stephen Cook after Nick Pippenger for his research on circuits with polylogarithmic depth and polynomial size.
[3][4] Pippenger became one of the most recent mathematicians to write a technical article in Latin, when he published a brief derivation of a new formula for e,[5][6][non-primary source needed] whereby the Wallis product for π is modified by taking roots of its terms: