Thomas William Körner

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name = Thomas William Körner

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alma_mater = Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge
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Thomas William Körner (born February 17 1946) is a British pure mathematician and the author of school books. He is titular Professor of Fourier Analysis in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity Hall. He is the son of the philosopher Stephan Körner and of Edith Körner.

He studied at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and took a PhD there in 1971 studying under Nicholas Varopoulos. [ [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/html/id.phtml?id=71483 Thomas William Körner] , "The Mathematics Genealogy Project"] In 1972 he won the Salem Prize. [ [http://www.math.ucla.edu/~thiele/other/salem.html The Salem Prize until 2003] ]

He has written three academic mathematics books aimed at undergraduates:
*"Fourier Analysis"
*"Exercises for Fourier Analysis"
*"A Companion to Analysis"

He has also written a popular book aimed at secondary school students, "The Pleasures of Counting". He is currently writing a book on probability and statistics called "Naive Decision Making".

External links

* [http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~twk/ Professor Körner's website]

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