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Timothy Gowers
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British mathematician
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Timothy Gowers is a British mathematician and university teacher born in Wiltshire in 1963. He specializes in combinatorics, number theory, additive combinatorics, and mathematics. Gowers has been employed by the University College London, the University of Cambridge, and the Collège de France. He received his education at Eton College, Trinity College, and the University of Cambridge.
He is a recipient of the Fields medal, the Whitehead Prize, and the title of Knight Bachelor. Gowers is a member of the Royal Society and Academia Europaea, and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society. His doctoral advisor was Béla Bollobás, and his doctoral students include Ben Joseph Green, Tom Sanders, and David Conlon. He participated in the International Mathematical Olympiad and speaks English.
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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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Timothy
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Wiltshire
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Employer
- Collège de France
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Sylvester Medal
- Participant in
- International Mathematical Olympiad
- Doctoral advisor
- Béla Bollobás
- Field of work
- mathematics
- Official website
- www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10
- Image
- William Timothy Gowers Oslo 2012.jpg
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- member of
- Academia Europaea
- date of birth
- 1963-11-20
- Commons category
- Timothy Gowers
- Erdős number
- 4
- student
- Ben Joseph Green
- name in native language
- Timothy Gowers
- official blog URL
- gowers.wordpress.com
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- interested in
- mathematics
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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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