Whiz Kid: Benjamin Kraft, Jet Setting Mathematician

National Merit Scholar will attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fall.

It isn’t often that you hear mathematician and jet setting in the same sentence, but Benjamin Kraft was actually unavailable for an interview because he was being whisked off to Los Angeles for the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair where he presented a paper on Entries of Random Matrices. Kraft, a senior at Liberty High School, advanced to the competition after receiving a first place award in the category of mathematics during the Delaware Valley Science Fairs. His research “explores the problem of random grids and how they can be used to verify the properties of randomness of data for research,” according to his mother, Margot Hillman. On May 13, Ben Kraft received a Special Award of $250 from the American Mathematical …

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