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Also known as W. Timothy Gowers, William Timothy Gowers, Tim Gowers, Sir William Timothy Gowers

British mathematician

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  • מתמטיקה
  • Wiskunde (Elementaire deeltjes) (Dutch Edition)
  • Mathematics

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Country
United Kingdom
Active from
1963

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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

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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.

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