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= Jonathan David Farley = Jonathan David Farley (1970-present), is a African American professor of Mathematics at the Morgan State University. His main research areas are lattice theory and the theory of ordered sets

Early Life
Jonathan David Farley was born on April 30, 1970 in Rochester, New York. Both his parents Rawle and Ena Farley were professors. Rawle Farley, his father, was an economist. Ena Farley, his mother, was a historian of African and African American history. He decided to follow a career in mathematics around the age of fourteen when he took a questionnaire that revealed he would do something in the field of Mathematics or Statistics. He has two brothers Christopher and Felipe who graduated from Harvard University just like him.

Academic Career
Farley graduated Summa Cum Laude and obtained his A.B from Harvard in 1991. He has the second highest grade point average in his graduating class. In 1995, he received his doctorate from Oxford University where he won many of the highest mathematical awards such as the Senior Mathematical prize and Johnson Prize. His teaching career began in 1996 at Vanderbilt University. He later had to move on from teaching and living at Vanderbilt because of death threats from the KKK. Dr. Farley has been a visiting professor, science fellow and scholar at various institutions such as California Institute Of Technology, Stanford University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology. His research is focused on discrete mathematics, lattice theory, the theory of ordered sets. Dr. Farley has solved mathematical problems posed by Professor Richard Stanley of MIT and a problem dating to 1971 posed by mathematician Richard Rado. These problems were unsolved respectively for 24 and 34 years

Awards/Accomplishments
During 2001-2002 Dr. Farley was a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in the UK. He was one of the four Americans during 2001-2002 to be awarded with this achievement. The Harvard foundation honored him with the 2004 Distinguished Scientist of the Year Award presented to him by the president of Harvard University. March 19, 2004 the city of Cambridge Massachusetts officially declared that day to be Dr. Jonathan David Farley day. In 2005, SEED Magazine named him one of the “15 people who have shaped the global conversation of science”. He was also named “Leader of the Future” by Ebony in 2001. He also founded a firm that does consultations to filmmakers about mathematical concepts in their movies and shows. His work concerning math with counter-terrorism has been applied by the Ministry of National Security in Jamaica.