Timothy Gowers

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work_institutions = Cambridge
University College London
alma_mater = Cambridge
doctoral_advisor = Béla Bollobás
doctoral_students = Ben Green
Tom Sanders
Mark Walters
Julia Wolf
András Zsák
Paul Smith
known_for = Functional analysis, combinatorics
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prizes = Prize of the European Mathematical Society (1996)
Fields Medal (1998)
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William Timothy Gowers FRS (born 20 November 1963, Wiltshire) is a British mathematician. He is Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Trinity College. He completed his PhD entitled 'Symmetric Structures in Banach Spaces' at the University of Cambridge in 1990 under the supervision of Béla Bollobás, and from 1991 to 1995 he was a member of the Department of Mathematics at University College London, where he performed his seminal work.

In 1996 he received the Prize of the European Mathematical Society. He was winner of the 1998 Fields Medal for research on functional analysis and combinatorics. In 1999 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.

In addition to scholarly papers on mathematics, Gowers is also the author of "Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction" and other works popularizing mathematics. He was consulted about the film "Proof", starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Anthony Hopkins. Recently, he has been the editor for The Princeton Companion to Mathematics, a comprehensive book that introduces and traces the development of various branches and concepts of mathematics.

He is the son of composer Patrick Gowers, great-grandson of British civil servant Sir Ernest Gowers and great-great-grandson of neurologist Sir William Gowers.

elected Publications

*cite journal|last = Gowers|first = W.T.|coauthors = Maurey, Bernard|title = The unconditional basic sequence problem|journal = Arxiv.org|date = 6 May 1992|url = http://arxiv.org/pdf/math/9205204
*cite book
last = Gowers
first = Timothy
title = Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction
publisher = Oxford Paperbacks
month = August | year = 2002
id = ISBN 978-0192853615

External links

* [http://gowers.wordpress.com/ Timothy Gowers's blog]
* [http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/ Timothy Gowers's web page]
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* [http://www.ams.org/featurecolumn/archive/gowers.html 1998 Fields Medalist William Timothy Gowers] from the American Mathematical Society
* [http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~ndg/fom/gowersqu.html Timothy Gowers - Faces of Mathematics]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/153535.stm BBC News (1998): British academics Tim Gowers and Richard Borcherds win top maths awards]
* [http://www.gresham.ac.uk/event.asp?PageId=45&EventId=607 "Multiplying and dividing by whole numbers: Why it is more difficult than you might think"] , lecture by Timothy Gowers at Gresham College, 22 May 2007 (available for download as video and audio files)
*Citation | last=Körner | first=Tom | url=http://www.emis.de/newsletter/newsletter33.pdf | title=Interview with Tim Gowers (Cambridge) | journal=Newsletter of the European Mathematical Society | pages=8–9 | date=1999-09 | issue=33
*planetmath reference|id=8367|title=William Timothy Gowers

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SHORT DESCRIPTION= British mathematician and Fields Medallist
DATE OF BIRTH= November 20, 1963
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