Editing Peter Shor (section)

==Early life and education ==
Shor was born on August 14, 1959, in [[New York City]], to Joan Bopp Shor and S. W. Williston Shor.<ref name="legacy.com">[https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/marinij/name/joan-shor-obituary?id=8877491 Joan Shor Obituary].</ref><ref>'[https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=shor], Shor Family History</ref> He grew up in [[Washington, D.C.]] and [[Mill Valley, California]].<ref name="legacy.com"/> While attending [[Tamalpais High School]], he placed third in the 1977 [[USA Mathematical Olympiad]].<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/dp/0883856344/ Murray Klamkin (Editor). Mathematical Association of America (January 1989). ''USA Mathematical Olympiads 1972–1986 Problems and Solutions'' (Anneli Lax New Mathematical Library)], {{isbn|0-88385-634-4}}
{{isbn|978-0-88385-634-5}}, accessed May 10, 2007</ref> After graduation that year, he won a silver medal at the [[International Math Olympiad]] in [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] (the U.S. team achieved the most points per country that year).<ref>[http://www.millvalleyhistoricalsociety.org/history-of-homestead-valley-2004.html Mill Valley Historical Society, 2004, 'History of Homestead Valley'] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060821060150/http://www.millvalleyhistoricalsociety.org/history-of-homestead-valley-2004.html |date=August 21, 2006 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.maa.org/pubs/mar04.pdf Stephen R. Dunbar, 'Identifying Talent: American Mathematics Competitions,' in Mathematical Association of America, Focus, Vol 24, Issue 3, March 2004, p 29]</ref> 

Shor graduated from the [[California Institute of Technology]] (Caltech) in 1981 with a [[Bachelor of Science|B.S.]] in mathematics.<ref name=Caltech>{{cite web|url=http://alumni.caltech.edu/distinguished_alumni/by_year?year=2007|title=2007 Recipients|work=Distinguished Alumni Award|publisher=Caltech Alumni Association|access-date=April 22, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716194044/http://alumni.caltech.edu/distinguished_alumni/by_year?year=2007|archive-date=July 16, 2011}}</ref> He was a [[Putnam Fellow]] in 1978. He then did doctoral study in applied mathematics at MIT, receiving a Ph.D. in 1985.<ref>{{cite thesis |last=Shor |first=Peter Williston |url=http://math.mit.edu/~shor/thesis/ |title=Random Planar Matching and Bin Packing |type=Ph.D. thesis |publisher=MIT |date=September 1985 |oclc=14107348}}</ref> His doctoral advisor was [[F. Thomson Leighton]], and his thesis was on probabilistic analysis of [[Bin packing problem|bin-packing]] algorithms.