Timothy Gowers
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William Timothy Gowers FRS (born November 20, 1963, Wiltshire) is a British mathematician. He is Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Trinity College. He completed his PhD entitled 'Symmetric Structures in Banach Spaces' at the University of Cambridge in 1990 under the supervision of Béla Bollobás, and from 1991 to 1995 he was a member of the Department of Mathematics at University College London, where he performed his seminal work.
In 1996 he received the Prize of the European Mathematical Society. He was winner of the 1998 Fields Medal for research on functional analysis and combinatorics. In 1999 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.
In addition to scholarly papers on mathematics, Gowers is also the author of A Very Short Introduction to Mathematics and other works popularizing mathematics. He was consulted about the film Proof, starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Anthony Hopkins.
He is the son of composer Patrick Gowers, great-grandson of British civil servant Sir Ernest Gowers and great-great-grandson of neurologist Sir William Gowers.
[edit] Selected Publications
- Gowers, W.T.; Maurey, Bernard (6 May 1992). "The unconditional basic sequence problem". Arxiv.org.
- Gowers, Timothy (August 2002). Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford Paperbacks. ISBN 978-0192853615.
[edit] External links
- Timothy Gowers's blog
- Timothy Gowers's web page
- 1998 Fields Medalist William Timothy Gowers from the American Mathematical Society
- Timothy Gowers - Faces of Mathematics
- BBC News (1998): British academics Tim Gowers and Richard Borcherds win top maths awards
- Timothy Gowers at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- "Multiplying and dividing by whole numbers: Why it is more difficult than you might think", lecture by Timothy Gowers at Gresham College, 22 May 2007 (available for download as video and audio files)
William Timothy Gowers on PlanetMath
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