Timothy Gowers
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Gowers in 2012
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| Born | William Timothy Gowers 20 November 1963 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) |
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Sir William Timothy Gowers, FRS (/ˈɡaʊərz/; 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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