Thomas William Körner

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Thomas William Körner (born February 17, 1946) is a British pure mathematician and the author of school books. He is Professor of Fourier Analysis in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity Hall. He is the son of the philosopher Stephan Körner and of Edith Körner.

He studied at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and took a PhD there in 1971 studying under Nicholas Varopoulos.[1] In 1972 he won the Salem Prize.[2]

He has written three academic mathematics books aimed at undergraduates:

  • Fourier Analysis
  • Exercises for Fourier Analysis
  • A Companion to Analysis

He has also written a popular book aimed at secondary school students, The Pleasures of Counting. He is currently writing a book on probability and statistics called Naive Decision Making.

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  1. ^ Thomas William Körner, The Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ The Salem Prize until 2003


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