About TPH

Ted Hill is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Georgia Tech, Adjunct Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico, and Research Scholar in Residence at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, CA.

He is a Distinguished Graduate of West Point’s Class of 1966 (the class with the highest casualty rate in Vietnam, and the focus of Rick Atkinson’s book The Long Gray Line), and holds a Master’s degree from Stanford and a PhD in Mathematics from Berkeley.

His main research area is probability theory, with a specific emphasis on optimal stopping theory, fair division problems and Benford's Law. His research, which has appeared in The American Scientist, and been cited in New Scientist, The New York Times, and numerous foreign newspapers, won many international awards including Fulbright and Gauss Professorships, and grants from the National Science Foundations of the United States, the Netherlands, Israel, and the German Academy of Sciences.

Ted has delivered invited lectures about his mathematical discoveries in fifteen countries, in English, German, Spanish, and Dutch, and recently received an unprecedented invitation for a former enemy combatant to return to Vietnam as a scientist.

His good-natured, anti-authoritarian spirit led to a record number of West Point disciplinary actions, surviving infamous Army Ranger Training as a non-volunteer, and being shot at by the police, accused of piracy in the Bahamas, banned from Wellesley College for life, and convicted of trespassing in California and of “misappropriating” a jeep in the army. He has continued to question authority in his career as a professor, and Dr. Hill was the recent focus of two Whistleblower reports on the 6 o’clock news on Atlanta’s WSB-TV. He hosts several informational and activist websites, including: usma66.org, collegeactivists.org, motherfunctor.org and booksforvietnam.org.

Articles About TPH

• "Math Theory Offers Way to Detect Cooked Books", ABC News, July 16, 2007.
• "A Learning Experience", San Luis Obispo Tribune, May 15, 2007.
• Whistleblower Reports, WSBTV Action News, Atlanta, GA, February 23 and 24, 2004.
• "Osos man recalls 42 years of friendship with Wesley Clark", San Luis Obispo Tribune, February 1, 2004.
• "Modern Math Counts on Ancient Law to Catch Fraud", OR/MS Today, December 2000.
• "Sorry, Wrong Number", by T.J. Becker, Research Horizons, Fall 2000, Georgia Tech.
• "Baffled by Math", by Kevin Maney, USAToday.com, October 18. 2000.
• "Got Your Number", by Louis Lavelle, The Record (Bergen County, NJ), August 15, 1999.
• "Randomness Rules", by Tina Hesman, The Dallas Morning News, August 9, 1999.
• "The power of one", by Robert Mathews, New Scientist, July 19, 1999.
• "Prime Number", Tech Topics, Vol. 35, No. 2, Winter 1998, Georgia Tech.
• "Beating the Odds (and the Frauds) with the Number 1", by Malcom W. Browne, International Herald Tribune, August 5, 1998.
• "Following Benford's Law, or Looking Out for No. 1", by Malcolm W. Browne, New York Times Science, August 4, 1998.
• "Wanderlust", Money, October 1975.
• "He Wants Bride He Can Fly Away From", by Michael Grieg, San Francisco Chronicle, August 29, 1975.
• "A Cliff is a Challenge", St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 6, 1971.