Joseph Silverman

Joseph Hillel Silverman is an American mathematician at Brown University known for his work in arithmetic geometry and for co-inventing, with Jeffrey Hoffstein, Jill Pipher and Daniel Lieman, the NTRU public-key cryptosystem, an early and influential lattice-based scheme now important for post-quantum cryptography. He is listed among Jewish mathematicians by Jewish biographical references such as Jinfo; published biographies give few details of his personal religious background.