Sir Timothy Gowers | |
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 Gowers at the Abel Prize ceremony in 2012 | |
| Born | William Timothy Gowers 20 November 1963[1] |
| Education | King's College School, Cambridge Eton College |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA, MA, PhD) |
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| Institutions | University of Cambridge University College London |
| Thesis | Symmetric Structures in Banach Spaces (1990) |
| Doctoral advisor | Béla Bollobás[3] |
| Doctoral students | David Conlon Ben Green Tom Sanders[3] |
| Website | gowers www |
Sir William Timothy Gowers, FRS (/ˈɡaʊ.ərz/; born 20 November 1963)[1] is a British mathematician. He is Professeur titulaire of the Combinatorics chair at the Collège de France, and director of research at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1998, he received the Fields Medal for research connecting the fields of functional analysis and combinatorics.[3][4][5]
- ^ a b c Anon (2013). "Gowers, Sir (William) Timothy". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U17733. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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- ^ Timothy Gowers's results at International Mathematical Olympiad
- ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Timothy Gowers", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
