Date of Birth: 
About Paul Monsky
- Paul Monsky (born June 17, 1936) is an American mathematician and professor at Brandeis University. After earning a bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College, he received his Ph.D.
- in 1962 from the University of Chicago under the supervision of Walter Lewis Baily, Jr.
- He has introduced the Monsky–Washnitzer cohomology and he has worked intensively on Hilbert–Kunz functions and Hilbert–Kunz multiplicity.
- In 2007, Monsky and Holger Brenner gave an example showing that tight closure does not commute with localization.Monsky's theorem, the statement that a square cannot be divided into an odd number of equal-area triangles, is named after Monsky, who published the first proof of it in 1970.In the mid-1970s, Monsky stopped paying U.S.
- federal income tax in protest against military spending.
- He resisted income tax withholding by claiming extra exemptions, and this led to a criminal conviction on tax charges in 1980.
Read more at Wikipedia