Lillian B. Pierce, Anne Firor Scott Distinguished Professor

Contact Info:

Office Location:	Duke Box 90320 120 Science Drive,, Durham, NC 27708
Email Address:
Web Page:	https://services.math.duke.edu/~pierce/

Teaching (Fall 2026):

• MATH 221D.004, LINEAR ALGEBRA Synopsis

  Gross Hall 304B, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

• MATH 721D.004, LINEAR ALGEBRA & APPLICA Synopsis

  Gross Hall 304B, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

Education:

Ph.D.	Princeton University	2009
MScRes	University of Oxford	2004
M.Sc.	Oxford University (United Kingdom)	2004
AB	Princeton University	2002
B.A.	Princeton University	2002

Specialties:

Number Theory
Analysis

Keywords:

Harmonic analysis • Number theory

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Bonolis, D; Pierce, LB; Woo, K, Genuine and strongly genuine polynomials: With an application to the persistence of Galois groups under specialization (July, 2026)  [abs]
2. Bonolis, D; Pierce, LB; Woo, K, Counting points in thin sets: A survey (March, 2026)
3. Bonolis, D; Pierce, LB; Woo, K, Counting integral points in thin sets of type II: singularities, sieves, and stratification (May, 2025)
4. Pierce, LB; Turnage-Butterbaugh, CL; Zaman, A, A guide to Tauberian theorems for arithmetic applications (April, 2025)  [abs]
5. Browning, T; Pierce, LB; Schindler, D, GENERALISED QUADRATIC FORMS OVER TOTALLY REAL NUMBER FIELDS, Journal of the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu, vol. 23 no. 6 (November, 2024), pp. 2859-2912 [doi]  [abs]

Recent Grant Support

• RTG: Linked via L-functions: training versatile researchers across number theory, National Science Foundation, 2023/10-2029/09.      
• Class Groups, Character Sums, and Oscillatory Integrals, National Science Foundation, 2022/09-2026/08.      
• Investigations in the intersection of number theory and harmonic analysis, Simons Foundation, 2024/01-2024/12.