Sir William Timothy Gowers, is a British mathematician.
21 Facts About Timothy Gowers
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Timothy Gowers is Professeur titulaire of the Combinatorics chair at the College de France, and director of research at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
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In 1981, Timothy Gowers won a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad with a perfect score.
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Timothy Gowers completed his PhD, with a dissertation on Symmetric Structures in Banach Spaces at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1990, supervised by Bela Bollobas.
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Timothy Gowers was elected to the Rouse Ball Professorship at Cambridge in 1998.
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Timothy Gowers used combinatorial tools in proving several of Stefan Banach's conjectures in the subject, in particular constructing a Banach space with almost no symmetry, serving as a counterexample to several other conjectures.
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Timothy Gowers introduced the Gowers norms, a tool in arithmetic combinatorics, and provided the basic techniques for analysing them.
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In 2003, Timothy Gowers established a regularity lemma for hypergraphs, analogous to the Szemeredi regularity lemma for graphs.
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Timothy Gowers has developed an interest, in joint work with Mohan Ganesalingam, in automated problem solving.
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Timothy Gowers has written several works popularising mathematics, including Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction, which describes modern mathematical research for the general reader.
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Timothy Gowers was consulted about the 2005 film Proof, starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Anthony Hopkins.
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Timothy Gowers edited The Princeton Companion to Mathematics, which traces the development of various branches and concepts of modern mathematics.
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In 2012, Timothy Gowers posted to his blog to call for a boycott of the publishing house Elsevier.
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In 2016, Timothy Gowers started Discrete Analysis to demonstrate that a high-quality mathematics journal could be inexpensively produced outside of the traditional academic publishing industry.
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In 1994, Timothy Gowers was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich where he discussed the theory of infinite-dimensional Banach spaces.
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In 1996, Timothy Gowers received the Prize of the European Mathematical Society, and in 1998 the Fields Medal for research on functional analysis and combinatorics.
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Timothy Gowers sits on the selection committee for the Mathematics award, given under the auspices of the Shaw Prize.
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Timothy Gowers was listed in Nature's 10 people who mattered in 2012.
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Timothy Gowers was born on November 20,1963 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England.
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Timothy Gowers has two siblings, the writer Rebecca Gowers, and the violinist Katharine Gowers.
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In 1988, Timothy Gowers married Emily Thomas, a classicist and Cambridge academic: they divorced in 2007.