Gabriel Paternain
| Gabriel Paternain | |
|---|---|
| Nationality |
 Uruguay |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge |
| Alma mater | SUNY Stony Brook |
| Thesis | Geometric and Toplogical Prop of Manifolds - Completely Integrable Geodesic Flows (1991) |
| Doctoral advisor | Detlef Gromoll |
| Doctoral students |
Leonardo Macarini Chiin-Zhe Tan Pablo Suárez-Serrato Dan Jane Will Merry Peter Herbrich |
Gabriel Pedro Paternain is a Uruguayan mathematician. He is Professor of Mathematics in DPMMS at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of Trinity College. He obtained his Licenciatura from Universidad de la Republica in Uruguay in 1987, and his PhD from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1991. He has lectured several undergraduate and graduate courses and has gained widespread popularity due to his entertaining and informal lecturing style, which has been recognised by the university in the past for its high calibre.[1] He was managing editor of the mathematical journal Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society for the period 2006-2011.
In his spare time he partakes in a wide variety of sports, notably football.