Trevor Wooley

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Trevor D. Wooley FRS is a British mathematician and currently Professor of Mathematics at the University of Bristol. His fields of interest include analytic number theory, Diophantine equations and Diophantine problems, harmonic analysis, the Hardy-Littlewood circle method, and the theory and applications of exponential sums. He has made significant breakthroughs on Waring's problem, for which he was awarded the Salem Prize in 1998.

He received his bachelor's degree in 1987 from the University of Cambridge and his Ph.D., supervised by Robert Charles Vaughan, in 1990 from the University of London. In 2007 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.

[edit] Awards and honors

• Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 1993-1995
• Salem Prize, 1998
• Invited speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians, Beijing 2002
• Elected Fellow of the Royal Society, 2007.

[edit] Selected publications

• Trevor D. Wooley, Large improvements in Waring's problem. Ann. of Math. (2) 135 (1992), no. 1, 131--164.
• Trevor D. Wooley, Quasi-diagonal behaviour in certain mean value theorems of additive number theory. J. Amer. Math. Soc. 7 (1994), no. 1, 221--245.
• Trevor D. Wooley, Breaking classical convexity in Waring's problem: sums of cubes and quasi-diagonal behaviour. Invent. Math. 122 (1995), no. 3, 421--451.

[edit] External links

• Trevor Wooley's Home page.
• Bristol Research Profile.