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Tim Gowers

Sir Timothy Gowers
Timothy Gowers Heidelberg.jpg
Gowers in 2012
Born William Timothy Gowers
(1963-11-20) 20 November 1963 (age 53)
Wiltshire, England, UK
Citizenship British
Institutions University of Cambridge
University College London
Alma mater Trinity College, Cambridge
Thesis Symmetric Structures in Banach Spaces (1990)
Doctoral advisor Béla Bollobás
Doctoral students Pablo Candela
David Conlon
Ben Green
George Petridis
Tom Sanders
Mark Walters
Julia Wolf
András Zsák
Known for Functional analysis, combinatorics
Notable 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)
Website
gowers.wordpress.com
www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10

Sir William Timothy Gowers, FRS (/ˈɡərz/; 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.

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.

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.


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