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{{short description|Canadian mathematician}}
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{{ Infobox scientist
| name              = Adam Logan
| image             = Adam Logan.jpg
| birth_date        = {{bya|1975}}
| birth_place       = [[Kingston, Ontario]], Canada
| nationality       = Canadian
| fields            = [[Mathematics]]
| workplaces        = [[Tutte Institute for Mathematics and Computing|Tutte Institute]]
| alma_mater        = [[Harvard University]]<br>[[Princeton University]]
}}

'''Adam Logan''' (born 1975 in [[Kingston, Ontario]]) is a research mathematician and a top Canadian [[Scrabble]] player. He won the [[World Scrabble Championship]] in 2005, beating [[Pakorn Nemitrmansuk]] of [[Thailand]] 3–0 in the final.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wscgames.com/2005/build/standing/1/24.html|title=Standings: Round 24|website=www.wscgames.com|access-date=2019-10-28}}</ref> He is the only player to have won the [[Canadian Scrabble Championship]] five times (1996, 2005, 2008, 2013 and 2016). He was also the winner of the 1996 [[National Scrabble Championship]], North America's top rated player in 1997, and the winner of the Collins division of the 2014 [[North American Scrabble Championship]].

Since his competitive career began in 1985, Logan has played nearly 2200 tournament games, compiling a winning percentage of over 68%, and earning just $100,000 in prize money.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cross-tables.com/results.php?p=3522 |title = Adam Logan - Recent Tourneys - cross-tables.com}}</ref>

He was a [[Putnam Fellow]] in 1992 and 1993.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Klosinski|first1=Leonard F.|last2=Alexanderson|first2=Gerald L.|last3=Larson|first3=Loren C.|date=1993|title=The Fifty-Third William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition|journal=The American Mathematical Monthly|volume=100|issue=8|pages=755–767|doi=10.2307/2324782|issn=0002-9890|jstor=2324782}}</ref> Logan completed his first degree, in mathematics, at [[Princeton University]] in 1995 and received a PhD from [[Harvard University]] in 1999. He completed his Post-doctoral work at [[McGill University]] between 2002 through 2003. From 2008 to 2009 he was employed as a Quantitative Analyst at [[D. E. Shaw & Co.]] in [[New York City]].
He works for the [[Tutte Institute for Mathematics and Computing]] in [[Ottawa]], [[Ontario]], Canada.<ref>{{cite arXiv |last1 = Logan |first1= L |last2=Molloy |first2=M |last3=Pralat |first3=P |date=28 June 2018 |title=A variant of the Erdos-Renyi random graph process |eprint= 1806.10975 |class=math.CO}}</ref>

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==External links==
*{{cross-tables player|pid=3522}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927224011/http://www.scrabble-assoc.com/cgi-bin/player.pl?given=Adam&surname=Logan&exact=1 Adam Logan's NSA player profile]
*[http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~a5logan/math/index.html Adam Logan's professional home page] (legacy; no longer in this position)
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[[Category:1975 births]]
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[[Category:Canadian mathematicians]]
[[Category:Canadian Scrabble players]]
[[Category:Harvard University alumni]]
[[Category:Number theorists]]
[[Category:Scientists from Ontario]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Kingston, Ontario]]
[[Category:Princeton University alumni]]
[[Category:World Scrabble Championship winners]]
[[Category:International Mathematical Olympiad participants]]
[[Category:Lisgar Collegiate Institute alumni]]
[[Category:Putnam Fellows]]

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