Daniel Biss

Quick Facts

Full Name	Daniel Biss
Occupation	Mathematician
Date Of Birth	Aug 27, 1977(1977-08-27)
Age	47
Birthplace	Akron
Country	United States
Birth City	Ohio
Horoscope	Leo

Daniel Biss Biography

Daniel Biss is one of the most popular and richest Mathematician who was born on August 27, 1977 in Akron, Ohio, United States. Daniel Kalman Biss (born August 27 1977) is an American politician and mathematician who was a member of the Illinois Senate for the 9th district from the beginning of January 2013 until January 2019. The district encompasses the northern suburbs of Chicago including Evanston, Glencoe, Glenview, Morton Grove, Northbrook, Northfield, Skokie, Wilmette and Winnetka. Biss first was elected in 2008 and served as an elected representative in the Illinois House of Representatives from 2011 until 2013. Biss was also a candidate for Governor of Illinois in the Democratic primary for Governor of Illinois in the election of 2018.

Biss also contributed an appendix to the popular book for young adults, An Abundance of Katherines, written by John Green.

Biss ran for a seat in the Illinois State House of Representatives in 2008, losing to Republican Elizabeth Coulson. Starting in 2009, he then worked as a policy adviser to Pat Quinn, the Democratic governor of Illinois.

According to his responses in a 2008 “Political Courage Test”, Daniel Biss supports carbon emissions limits and is pro-choice (supporting legal access to abortion services). He also supports allowing Illinois 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. He received a 7% rating by the NRA in 2010. Biss has expressed support of labor unions and he received a $20,000 campaign contribution from AFSCME. Biss also supports legalizing marijuana in Illinois.

Before pursuing the path of a politician, Biss was an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago from 2002 until the year 2008.

Daniel Biss Net Worth

Daniel Biss is one of the richest Mathematician from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Daniel Biss 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Biss was a student at Bloomington North High school located in Bloomington, Indiana, and He was a finalist in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search in 1995. He earned his undergrad degree from Harvard University, graduating summa cum laude in 1998 and an Ph.D. from MIT in 2002 and 2002, both in mathematics. He was awarded his 1999 Morgan Prize for outstanding research as a student and was an MIT Clay Research Fellow from 2002 until 2007. His advisor on his doctoral dissertation was Michael J. Hopkins. He was an invited student in the Institute for Advanced Study in the autumn of 2003.

Prior to pursuing full-time a political career Biss had been an Associate Professor in Mathematics in the University of Chicago from 2002 until the year 2008.

At least four of the mathematics papers that Biss published in academic journals were later discovered to contain major errors. Mathematician Nikolai Mnëv published a report in 2007 that there was a “serious flaw” in two of Biss’s works published in Annals of Mathematics and Advances in Mathematics in 2003, saying “unfortunately this simple mistake destroys the main theorems of both papers”. In 2008 and 2009, Biss acknowledged the flaw and published erratum reports for the two papers, thanking Mnëv for drawing his attention to the error. He and a co-author, Benson Farb, also acknowledged in 2009 that there was a “fatal error” in a paper they had published in Inventiones Mathematicae in 2006, thanking mathematicians Masatoshi Sato and Tom Church for helping to explain the problem. Another of his papers published in Topology and its Applications was formally retracted by the publisher in 2017, fifteen years after its 2002 publication, with the journal saying “This article has been retracted at the request of the Editors-in-Chief after receiving a complaint about anomalies in this paper. The editors solicited further independent reviews which indicated that the definitions in the paper are ambiguous and most results are false. The author was contacted and does not dispute these findings.” The journal said they had identified twelve specific errors in the paper, but clarified that they had concluded that the paper’s findings were merely inaccurate, not fraudulent. When contacted by the journal, Biss had responded saying “Thank you for writing. I am no longer in mathematics and so don’t feel equipped to fully evaluate these claims. I certainly do not dispute them. If you would like to publish a retraction to that effect, that would seem to me to be an appropriate approach.”

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On March 20, 2017, Biss announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Illinois for the 2018 election on a Facebook Live video, attacking incumbent governor Bruce Rauner and Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan. Biss joined a growing field of Democratic contenders, including businessman C. G. Kennedy and Chicago alderman Ameya Pawar.

Facts & Trivia

Daniel Ranked on the list of most popular Mathematician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Daniel Biss celebrates birthday on August 27 of every year.

In March 2017, Biss sponsored SB 1424, a bill proposing a system of matching state funds for small-donor political contributions and SB 780, a bill proposing to elect a number of statewide offices by ranked-choice ballot. He also co-sponsored SB 1933, a bill by State Sen. Andy Manar to allow for automatic voter registration when applying for an Illinois driver’s license.

Top Facts about Daniel Biss

1. Daniel Biss is an American mathematician and politician.
2. He served as a member of the Illinois House of Representatives from 2011-2013.
3. Biss ran for governor of Illinois in 2018 but lost in the primary.
4. He has a PhD in mathematics from MIT.
5. Biss was a professor at the University of Chicago before entering politics.
6. In 2007, he won the Mathematical Association of America’s Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student.
7. Biss co-authored the book “Quantum Theory for Mathematicians” with Robert S. Doran.
8. He supports progressive policies such as universal healthcare and free college tuition.
9. Biss is Jewish and has been active in advocating for Palestinian rights.
10. He currently serves as a member of the Evanston City Council in Illinois.