Ernest S. Croot III is a mathematician and professor at the School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology. He is known for his solution of the Erdős–Graham conjecture, and for contributing to the solution of the cap set problem. Education Ernest Croot attended Centre College at Danville, Kentucky, where he received a B.S. in Mathematics and a B.S. in Computer Science in 1994. In 2000, he completed a Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University of Georgia under the supervision of Andrew Granville. References External links Croot's personal web page at Georgia Tech Mathematics Genealogy Project profile 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians Mathematicians from Georgia (U.S. state) Georgia Tech faculty 1972 births Living people University of Georgia alumni Centre College alumni