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Overview

Nathan O. Kaplan was affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and made contributions primarily in the fields of Mathematics and Computer Science. Their research spanned various subfields including Algebra and Number Theory, Geometry and Topology, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics, as well as Artificial Intelligence.

Their work addressed a range of topics such as Coding Theory and Cryptography, Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory, Commutative Algebra and Its Applications, Finite Group Theory Research, Cryptography and Residue Arithmetic, Rings, Modules, and Algebras, and Random Matrices and Applications.

Nathan O. Kaplan authored multiple papers, notable among these were:

  • Generalizations of results of Friedman and Washington on cokernels of random p-adic matrices (2022), published in Journal of Algebra
  • Numerical semigroups, polyhedra, and posets I: the group cone (2021), published in Combinatorial Theory
  • Counting Plane Cubic Curves over Finite Fields with a Prescribed Number of Rational Intersection Points (2020), published in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Counting plane cubic curves over finite fields with a prescribed number of rational intersection points (2021), published in European Journal of Mathematics
  • The probability of non-isomorphic group structures of isogenous elliptic curves in finite field extensions, I (2023), published in Research in Number Theory

They frequently published in several venues, including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Algebra
  • European Journal of Mathematics
  • Combinatorial Theory
  • Oncogene

In collaboration, their common coauthors comprised John Cullinan, Deepesh Singhal, Gilyoung Cheong, Vlad Matei, and Christopher O'Neill.

Best Publications

  • Methods in Enzymology , Vol

    S P Colowick;M D Joshi;Jagannathan;N O Kaplan

  • Nature and Development of Lactic Dehydrogenases: The two major types of this enzyme form molecular hybrids which change in makeup during development.

    R. D. Cahn;E. Zwilling;N. O. Kaplan;L. Levine

  • Lactic Dehydrogenases: Functions of the Two Types

    David M. Dawson;Theodore L. Goodfriend;Nathan O. Kaplan

  • The Comparative Enzymology of Lactic Dehydrogenases I. PROPERTIES OF THE CRYSTALLINE BEEF AND CHICKEN ENZYMES

    Amadeo Pesce;Robert H. McKay;Francis Stolzenbach;Robert D. Cahn

  • The reaction of pyridine nucleotide with cyanide and its analytical use.

    Sidney P. Colowick;Nathan O. Kaplan;Margaret M. Ciotti

  • Lactic Dehydrogenase in Human Neoplastic Tissues

    Robert D. Goldman;Nathan O. Kaplan;Thomas C. Hall

  • The assay and distribution of coenzyme A.

    Nathan O. Kaplan;Fritz Lipmann

  • The Comparative Enzymology of Creatine Kinases I. ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION FROM CHICKEN AND RABBIT TISSUES

    Hans M. Eppenberger;David M. Dawson;Nathan O. Kaplan

  • The comparative enzymology of lactic dehydrogenases. 3. Properties of the H4 and M4 enzymes from a number of vertebrates.

    Amadeo Pesce;Thomas P. Fondy;Francis Stolzenbach;Fred Castillo

  • Structure-function relationships in lactate dehydrogenase.

    Margaret J. Adams;Manfred Buehner;K. Chandrasekhar;Geoffrey C. Ford

  • Inhibition of spleen diphosphopyridine nucleotidase by nicotinamide, an exchange reaction.

    Leonard J. Zatman;Nathan O. Kaplan;Sidney P. Colowick

  • Molecular Heterogeneity and Evolution of Enzymes

    Nathan O. Kaplan;Margaret M. Ciotti;Robert E. Bieber;Milton Hamolsky;Milton Hamolsky

  • Reaction of pyridine nucleotide analogues with dehydrogenases.

    Nathan O. Kaplan;Margaret M. Ciotti;Francis E. Stolzenbach

  • Hydrogen evolution by a chloroplast-ferredoxin-hydrogenase system.

    John R. Benemann;Jeffrey A. Berenson;Nathan O. Kaplan;Martin D. Kamen

  • Lactate dehydrogenases: structure and function.

    Johannes Everse;Nathan O. Kaplan

  • Pyridine nucleotide transhydrogenase. III. Animal tissue transhydrogenases.

    Nathan O. Kaplan;Sidney P. Colowick;Elizabeth F. Neufeld

  • THE COMPARATIVE ENZYMOLOGY OF TRIOSEPHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE.

    William S. Allison;Nathan O. Kaplan

  • CHEMISTRY AND PROPERTIES OF THE 3-ACETYLPYRIDINE ANALOGUE OF DIPHOSPHOPYRIDINE NUCLEOTIDE

    M M Ciotti;N O Kaplan

  • Creatine kinase: evidence for a dimeric structure.

    David M. Dawson;Hans M. Eppenberger;N.O. Kaplan

  • PYRIDINE NUCLEOTIDE SYNTHESIS IN THE MOUSE

    Nathan O. Kaplan;Nathan O. Kaplan;Abraham Goldin;Abraham Goldin;Stewart R. Humphreys;Stewart R. Humphreys;Margaret M. Ciotti;Margaret M. Ciotti

Frequent Co-Authors

Sidney P. Colowick
Sidney P. Colowick Vanderbilt University
Matthew Meyerson
Matthew Meyerson Harvard University
Martin D. Kamen
Martin D. Kamen University of California, San Diego
Fritz Lipmann
Fritz Lipmann Harvard University
Jack E. Dixon
Jack E. Dixon University of California, San Diego
Marcin Imielinski
Marcin Imielinski Cornell University
David M. Greenberg
David M. Greenberg University of California, Berkeley
Susan S. Taylor
Susan S. Taylor University of California, San Diego
J. Craig Venter
J. Craig Venter J. Craig Venter Institute
Paul M. Wassarman
Paul M. Wassarman Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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