Jonathan Partington

Jonathan Partington

Jonathan R. Partington (born February 4, 1955 in Norwich, United Kingdom) is an English mathematician.

Education

Partington was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and Trinity College, University of Cambridge, where he completed his PhD thesis entitled "Numerical ranges and the Geometry of Banach Spaces" under the supervision of Béla Bollobás.

Career

He was an editor of the Journal of the London Mathematical Society and is now a professor of pure mathematics at the University of Leeds. He works in the area of functional analysis, sometimes applied to control theory, and is the author of several books in this area.

Partington's extra-mathematical activities include the invention of the [http://www.bath.ac.uk/~masgks/march.html March March march] , an annual walk starting at March, Cambridgeshire. He is also known as a writer or co-writer of some of the earliest British text-based computer games, including Acheton, Hamil, Murdac, Avon, Fyleet, Crobe, Sangraal, and SpySnatcher, which started life on the Phoenix computer system at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.

Trivia

His Erdős number is 2.

External links

* [http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/~pmt6jrp/ Jonathan Partington's Homepage]
* [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/html/id.phtml?id=64978 Jonathan Partington at the Mathematics Genealogy Project]


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