David Patrick

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David Patrick is a teacher and curriculum developer for Art of Problem Solving (AoPS). Dr. Patrick joined AoPS in 2004.

Background

Patrick grew up in Batavia, New York, and attended Carnegie Mellon University, graduating in 1992 with a B.S. in Mathematics/Computer Science and an M.S. in Mathematics. Patrick then attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating with a Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1997. Patrick studied under Michael Artin, and his doctoral thesis was entitled Noncommutative Ruled Surfaces, a branch of noncommutative algebraic geometry.

After graduating MIT, Patrick was a postdoc at the University of Washington from 1997-2001, including a 6-month residency at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, California.