Sir Timothy Gowers
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Sir Timothy Gowers FRS |
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Gowers in 2012
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| Born |
William Timothy Gowers 20 November 1963 Wiltshire, England, UK |
| Citizenship | British |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Known for | Functional analysis, combinatorics |
| Awards |
Fellow of the Royal Society (1999) Gold Medal, IMO (1981) Prize of the European Mathematical Society (1996) Fields Medal (1998) Knight Bachelor (2012) De Morgan Medal (2016) Sylvester Medal (2016) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions |
University of Cambridge University College London |
| Thesis | Symmetric Structures in Banach Spaces (1990) |
| Doctoral advisor | Béla Bollobás |
| Doctoral students |
David Conlon Ben Green Tom Sanders |
| Website |
gowers www |
Sir William Timothy Gowers, FRS (/ˈɡaʊ.ərz/; born 20 November 1963) is a British mathematician. He is a Royal Society Research Professor at the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge, where he also holds the Rouse Ball chair, and is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1998, he received the Fields Medal for research connecting the fields of functional analysis and combinatorics.
Gowers attended King's College School, Cambridge, as a choirboy in the King's College choir, and then Eton College as a King's Scholar. He completed his PhD, with a dissertation entitled Symmetric Structures in Banach Spaces, at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1990, supervised by Béla Bollobás.
After his PhD, Gowers was elected to a Junior Research Fellowship at Trinity College. From 1991 until his return to Cambridge in 1995 he was lecturer at University College London. He was elected to the Rouse Ball Professorship at Cambridge in 1998. During 2000–2 he was visiting professor at Princeton University.
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