Keith Martin Ball
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Keith Martin Ball 26 December 1960 New York City |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
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| Thesis | Isometric problems in lp̲ and sections of convex sets (1986) |
| Doctoral advisor | Béla Bollobás |
| Doctoral students | Gergely Ambrus |
Keith Martin Ball FRSFRSE (born 26 December 1960) is a mathematician and professor at the University of Warwick. He was scientific director of the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS) from 2010 to 2014.
Ball was educated at Berkhamsted School and Trinity College, Cambridge where he studied the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos and was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics in 1982 and a PhD in 1987 for research supervised by Béla Bollobás.
Keith Ball's research is in the fields of Functional Analysis, High-dimensional and Discrete Geometry and Information Theory. He is the author of Strange Curves, Counting Rabbits, & Other Mathematical Explorations.
Ball was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) in 2012 and a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2013. His Royal Society citation reads
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