Martin T. Barlow

Martin Thomas Barlow FRS FRSC (born 16 June 1953 in London) is a British mathematician who is professor of mathematics at the University of British Columbia in Canada since 1992.^[1]

History

Barlow is the son of Andrew Dalmahoy Barlow (1916–2006) and his wife Yvonne.^[2] He is thus the grandson of Alan Barlow, and his wife Nora (née Darwin), through whom he is a great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin. He is the nephew of Horace Barlow (also FRS and Fellow of Trinity). In 1994 he married Colleen McLaughlin.^[2]

He was educated Sussex House School, St Paul's School, London, Trinity College, Cambridge (BA 1975, Diploma 1976, ScD 1993); University College of Swansea (PhD).^[1][2]

Barlow worked as a research fellow of the University of Liverpool 1978–1980. He was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1979–1992. He worked in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge 1981–1985 and was a Royal Society University Research Fellow 1985–1992.^[1]

Work

His mathematical interests include probability, Brownian motion and fractal sets.

He was awarded the Rollo Davidson Prize in 1984.^[1][3] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1998.^[1] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2005.^[4]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} http://www.debretts.co.uk/people/biographies/browse/b/25222/Martin%20Thomas+BARLOW.aspx
2. ^ ^{a b c} Debrett's People of Today. 2011. p. 87. http://www.exacteditions.com/exact/browse/455/1210/7772/3/123. 
3. ^ "Rollo Davidson Awards 1976 - 2010". Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge. http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/Rollo/award.html. Retrieved 2011-05-26. 
4. ^ "Fellows of the Royal Society". Royal Society. http://royalsociety.org/about-us/fellowship/fellows/. Retrieved 2011-05-26. 

• ‘BARLOW, Prof. Martin Thomas’, Who's Who 2011, A & C Black, 2011; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2010 ; online edn, Oct 2010 accessed 21 May 2011

External links

• Academic homepage

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