Dr. Jonathan D. Farley
Johannes Kepler Universität Linz
Institut für
Algebra
A-4040 Linz, Österreich
Research Interests
lattice theory; mathematical
methods in counterterrorism
Jonathan Farley’s old webpage at Harvard University, with a link to a television interview on Fox News
Jonathan Farley’s old webpage at Stanford University
Jonathan Farley’s personal webpage
Dr. Jonathan David Farley has been a Visiting Professor of Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), a Science Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Mathematics at Harvard University, and a Visiting Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Seed Magazine named Dr. Farley one of “15 people who have shaped the global conversation about science in 2005.” In 2005, Dr. Farley was given the key to the City of Columbia, South Carolina, USA (the state capital).
Dr. Farley is the 2004 recipient of the Harvard Foundation’s Distinguished Scientist of the Year Award, a medal presented on behalf of the president of Harvard University in recognition of “outstanding achievements and contributions in the field of mathematics.” The City of Cambridge, Massachusetts (home to both Harvard University and MIT) officially declared March 19, 2004 to be “Dr. Jonathan David Farley Day.” In 2004, Dr. Farley was recruited to serve as Head of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at The University of the West Indies (Jamaica).
He received tenure at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, USA in 2003, but fled Tennessee after receiving death threats from supporters of the founder of the Ku Klux Klan, a racist terrorist organization that has killed thousands of African-Americans.
In 2001-2002, Dr. Farley was a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar to the United Kingdom. He was one of only four Americans to win this award in 2001-2002.
Jonathan Farley obtained his doctorate in mathematics from Oxford University in 1995, after winning Oxford's highest mathematics awards, the Senior Mathematical Prize and Johnson University Prize, in 1994.
Farley graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1991 with the second-highest grade point average in his graduating class. (He earned 29 A’s and 3 A-’s.)
Farley, Jonathan David and Ryan Klippenstine. Distributive lattices of small width, II: a problem from Stanley’s 1986 text Enumerative Combinatorics, Journal of Combinatorial Theory (A) 116 (2009), 1097-1119. (PDF)
Farley, Jonathan David. Toward a Mathematical Theory of Counterterrorism: Building the Perfect Terrorist Cell (U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, 2007).
Farley, Jonathan David. Linear extensions of ranked posets, enumerated by descents. A problem of Stanley from the 1981 Banff conference on ordered sets. Adv. in Appl. Math. 34 (2005), no. 2, 295-312. (PDF)
Farley, Jonathan David; Kim, Sungsoon. The automorphism group of the Fibonacci poset: a “not too difficult” problem of Stanley from 1988. J. Algebraic Combin. 19 (2004), no. 2, 197-204. (PDF)
Farley, Jonathan David. Quasi-differential posets and cover functions of distributive lattices. II. A problem in Stanley’s Enumerative Combinatorics. Graphs Combin. 19 (2003), no. 4, 475-491. (PDF)
Farley, Jonathan David; Schröder, Bernd S. W. Strictly order-preserving maps into Z. II. A 1979 problem of Erné. Order 18 (2001), no. 4, 381-385 (2002). (PDF)
Farley, Jonathan David. Coproducts of bounded distributive lattices: cancellation. A problem from the 1981 Banff Conference on Ordered Sets. Algebra Universalis 45 (2001), no. 4, 375-381. (PDF)
Farley, Jonathan David. Quasi-differential posets and cover functions of distributive lattices. I. A conjecture of Stanley. J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 90 (2000), no. 1, 123-147. (PDF)
Farley, Jonathan David. Functions on distributive lattices with the congruence substitution property: some problems of Grätzer from 1964. Adv. Math. 149 (2000), no. 2, 193-213. (PDF)
Farley, Jonathan David. Priestley powers of lattices and their congruences. A problem of E. T. Schmidt. Acta Sci. Math. (Szeged) 62 (1996), no. 1-2, 3-45. (PDF)
Farley, J. D. The automorphism group of a function lattice: a problem of Jónsson and McKenzie. Algebra Universalis 36 (1996), no. 1, 8-45. (PDF)
Renommierter Wissenschafter an der JKU, Campus News, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz (April 2009), 15.