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Timothy Gowers
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British mathematician
OverviewAI-generated
Timothy Gowers is a British mathematician and university teacher whose work focuses on combinatorics, number theory, and additive combinatorics. Born in Wiltshire in 1963, he is a member of the Royal Society and the Academia Europaea. He received the Fields Medal, the Whitehead Prize, and was appointed a Knight Bachelor. Gowers has served as a Fellow of the Royal Society and holds positions at the University of Cambridge, University College London, and the Collège de France.
He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, University of Cambridge, where his doctoral advisor was Béla Bollobás. Gowers has supervised doctoral students including Ben Joseph Green, Tom Sanders, and David Conlon. He participated in the International Mathematical Olympiad and speaks English. His official website and blog are available online, and he is recognized in the Royal Society collection.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
Top works
- מתמטיקה
- Wiskunde (Elementaire deeltjes) (Dutch Edition)
- Mathematics
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 4
- Total plays
- 5
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Pittsburgh sleep quality index: A new instrument for psychiatric practice and research
· 1989 · cited 29,180x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,770x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,951x
- Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,855x
- Advances in functional and structural MR image analysis and implementation as FSL
· 2004 · cited 12,480x
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Key facts
- Born
- William Timothy Gowers , ( 1963-11-20 ) 20 November 1963 (age 62) , Marlborough , Wiltshire , England , UK
- Education
- King's College School, Cambridge , Eton College
- Alma mater
- University of Cambridge ( BA , MA , PhD )
- Known for
- Functional analysis combinatorics Quasirandom group
- Awards
- Fields Medal (1998) Knight Bachelor (2012) Nature's 10 (2012) De Morgan Medal (2016) Sylvester Medal (2016)
- Institutions
- University of Cambridge , University College London
- Thesis
- Symmetric Structures in Banach Spaces (1990)
- Doctoral advisor
- Béla Bollobás
- Doctoral students
- David Conlon , Ben Green , Tom Sanders
- Website
- gowers .wordpress .com , www .dpmms .cam .ac .uk /~wtg10
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Timothy Gowers's web page
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Encyclopedic overview
Sir William Timothy Gowers, FRS (/ˈɡaʊ.ərz/; born 20 November 1963) is a British mathematician. He is the holder of the Combinatorics chair at the Collège de France, a Research Professor at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1998, he received the Fields Medal for research connecting the fields of functional analysis and combinatorics.
Education
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