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Sir
Timothy Gowers
FRS
Gowers in 2009
Born
William Timothy Gowers

(1963-11-20) 20 November 1963 (age 60)[1]
Marlborough, Wiltshire, England, UK
EducationKing's College School, Cambridge
Eton College
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (BA, MA, PhD)
Known for
  • Functional analysis
  • combinatorics
  • Quasirandom group
Awards
  • Fields Medal (1998)
  • Knight Bachelor (2012)[1]
  • Nature's 10 (2012)[2]
  • De Morgan Medal (2016)
  • Sylvester Medal (2016)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
University College London
ThesisSymmetric Structures in Banach Spaces (1990)
Doctoral advisorBéla Bollobás[3]
Doctoral studentsDavid Conlon
Ben Green
Tom Sanders[3]
Websitegowers.wordpress.com
www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10

Sir William Timothy Gowers, FRS (/ˈɡ.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]

  1. ^ 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.)
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference n102012 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ a b c Timothy Gowers at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Edit this at Wikidata
  4. ^ Timothy Gowers's results at International Mathematical Olympiad
  5. ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Timothy Gowers", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews

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