Faculty Profile
Joel H. Spencer
Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Computer Science
spencer@cims.nyu.edu
212-998-3219
Warren Weaver Hall, Office 829
Education
Ph.D., Harvard University, USA, 1970.
B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, 1965.
Research Interests
Theoretical computer science and discrete mathematics.
Selected Publications
N. Alon and J. Spencer,
The Probabilistic Method, 3rd Edition
(Wiley, 2008)
J. Spencer,
Asymptopia, Student Mathematical Library
(American Mathematical Society, 2014)
J. Spencer,
The Strange Logic of Random Graphs
(Springer-Verlag, 2001)