Daniel Biss

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Daniel Biss
Daniel Biss 2012.jpg
Biss in 2012
Member of the Illinois Senate
from the 9th district
Assumed office
January 2013 (2013-Jan)
Preceded by Jeffrey Schoenberg
Member of the Illinois House of Representatives from the 17th District
In office
May 2011 (2011-May) – January 2013 (2013-Jan)
Preceded by Elizabeth Coulson
Succeeded by Laura Fine
Personal details
Born (1977-08-27) August 27, 1977 (age 46)
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Karin Steinbrueck
Children Two Sons
Residence Evanston, Illinois
Alma mater Harvard University
MIT
Profession Mathematician

Daniel Kálmán Biss[citation needed] (born August 27, 1977)[citation needed] is an American mathematician and member of the Illinois Senate from the 9th district, serving since January 2013. The district includes Chicago's northern suburbs, including Evanston, Glencoe, Glenview, Golf, Morton Grove, Northbrook, Northfield, Skokie, Wilmette, and Winnetka. Biss previously served in the Illinois House of Representatives from 2011 to 2013.

Personal life, education and mathematical career

Biss was born into a family of musicians: his brother is the noted pianist Jonathan Biss, his parents are the violinists Paul Biss and Miriam Fried, and his grandmother was the Russian-born cellist Raya Garbousova.[citation needed]

Biss attended Bloomington High School North in Bloomington, Indiana, graduating in 1995. In 1994, he attended the prestigious Research Science Institute at MIT. Biss subsequently earned his undergraduate degree at Harvard University, graduating summa cum laude in 1998, and his Ph.D. at MIT in 2002, both in mathematics.[1] He won the 1999 Morgan Prize for his outstanding research as an undergraduate, and was a Clay Research Fellow from 2002 to 2007.[2] His doctoral advisor was Michael J. Hopkins. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in the fall of 2003.[3]

Prior to running for State Representative, Biss was an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago. He published several papers about Grassmannian manifolds in prestigious journals, including the Annals of Mathematics, that later were discovered to contain a flaw which rendered the proofs invalid. In 2008, Biss published retractions in the journals.[1][4][5]

Biss created and wrote the mathematics behind the plot in An Abundance of Katherines, a novel by Vlogbrothers co-creator and author John Green.[6][7] Daniel Biss is frequently referred to as "Nerdfighteria's Resident Mathematician."[8]

In 2003, Biss published an article in the Annals of Mathematics where he argued that there is "no difference between studying real vector bundles and matroid bundles."[9] Nikolai Mnev, a mathematician at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics at St. Petersburg in Russia,[10] found that the proof written by Biss in his article was "seriously flawed". When Mnev found the flaw, Biss did not immediately retract it; it took nearly four years.[11] In his one-page retraction in July 2009 in the Annals of Mathematics, Biss wrote, "The author would like to thank Nikolai Mnev for drawing his attention to this error."[12]

Illinois House of Representatives

Committee assignments

  • Appropriations – Elementary & Secondary Education
  • Personnel & Pensions
  • Consumer Protection
  • Small Business Empowerment & Workforce Development
  • International Trade & Commerce
  • Bio-Technology
  • Appropriations – Higher Education[13]

Electoral history

Illinois State Representative: Results 2008–2010[14]
Year Democrat Votes Pct Republican Votes Pct
2008 Daniel Biss 25,959 48.52% Elizabeth Coulson 27,540 51.48%
2010 Daniel K. Biss 23,134 54.78% Hamilton Chang 19,096 45.22%
Illinois State Senate: Results 2012[14]
Year Democrat Votes Pct Republican Votes Pct
2012 Daniel Biss 68,064 66.63% Glenn Farkas 34,081 33.37%

Political views

According to a 2008 Political Courage Test, Daniel Biss supports carbon emissions limits. Biss is pro-choice, supporting legal abortion. He supports allowing high school graduates to pay in-state tuition at public universities regardless of immigration status, as well as state funding to raise the salaries of teachers.[15] He received a 0% rating by the NRA in 2010.[16] Biss has expressed support of labor unions[17] and has received $20,000 from AFSCME, the second largest donation to a state legislator.[18]

In 2013, Biss cosponsored SB 1, a bill that significantly reduced pension plans for retired state employees in an attempt to reduce debts in the state retirement system.[19] In May 2015, the Illinois Supreme Court found the law unconstitutional.[20]

Campaign

On November 10, 2011, Biss announced his intent to run for the Illinois Senate seat held by retiring Senator Jeffrey Schoenberg.[21] He won the election on November 6, 2012, receiving over 66% of the vote.[citation needed]

Biss announced a run for Illinois Comptroller in the 2016 special election[22] but dropped out and endorsed opponent Susana Mendoza.[23]

Selected works

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See also

References

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  2. ↑ Daniel Biss, Clay Mathematics Institute
  3. ↑ Institute for Advanced Study: A Community of Scholars
  4. ↑ Comment by Laura Anderson on September 21, 2007 to Chicago Reader article "John Edwards and -- Daniel Biss?" -- Anderson's account of the events
  5. ↑ Error were discovered variously between 2005 (Anderson) and April 2006 (Mnev), Mnev posted September 2007, Biss submitted errata November 2008 (Annals) and December 2008 (Advances), which were published July 2009 (Annals) and March 2009 (Advances)
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  9. ↑ Wong, Willie. (2016-05-02). “In 2003 a startling breakthrough was made…” StackExchange (Match).
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