Robin Pemantle

Robin Pemantle got his bachelor's degree from Berkeley, his PhD from MIT, and is now a professor of mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania. He works in the fields of probability theory and combinatorics. He was a Putnam Exam top five winner (1981), with Fellowships from Sloan (1993 for research), Lilly (1993 for teaching), the Institute for Mathematical Statistics (2001, honorific) and the American Mathematical Society (2012, honorific, inaugural class), among others. He was elected in 2024 to the National Academy of Sciences.

His recent books include "Analytic Combinatorics in Several Variables, 2nd edition" (Cambridge, 2024), "There Is No One Way to Teach Math" (Routledge, to appear in September 2024), and "I Wish They Had Taught Me That!" (under contract with A.K. Peters / CRC Press).

In the classroom, he specializes in active learning, developing numerous courses among several categories: math for pre-service teachers, freshman calculus, and applied probability modeling. Before getting his undergraduate degree he taught math enrichment to grades 5-8 at Black Pine Circle Day School in Berkeley.

In his spare time he has been known to write comic math songs, raise emus, and participate in community theater.