Jeremy Chapman is one of several of my students who was born and
raised in Missouri. Jeremy was a big time athlete in high school and
college and was probably only held back from a career in
professional sports by a very serious injury. Jeremy is an avid
hunter. The venison he brought me on a couple of occasions was
absolutely spectacular and his description of bow and arrow hunting
was interesting and captivating.
Jeremy Chapman became my student at a time when the develop of a
variety of consequences of my paper with Misha Rudnev on the
Falconer problem in vector spaces over finite fields was in full
swing. The first part of his thesis was a sum product problem for
two by two matrices over finite fields. This problem and its higher
dimensional analogs fascinate me to this day. In the late 2023
Jeremy and I started doing mathematics again and the topic that we
chose was an analog of the Erdos Integer Distance Principle in
vector spaces over finite fields.