Won Sylvester Medal (2016).
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Timothy Gowers
Sir William Timothy Gowers, is a British mathematician. He is the holder of the Combinatorics chair at the Collège de France, a Research Professor at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1998, he received the Fields Medal for research connecting the fields of functional analysis and combinatorics.
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Born 20 November 1963 · Q220402
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2016· 3 entries
Won De Morgan Medal (2016).
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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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2012· 4 entries
Awarded Knight Bachelor (2012).
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Awarded Nature's 10 (2012).
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Was knighted by the British monarch for services to mathematics
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Gowers posted to his blog to call for a boycott of the publishing house Elsevier
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2011· 1 entry
Awarded Euler Book Prize (2011).
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2009· 1 entry
With Olof Sisask and Alex Frolkin, he invited people to post comments to his blog to contribute to a collection of methods of mathematical problem solving
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2008· 2 entries
Science News: Book Review: The Princeton Companion to Mathematics, Timothy Gowers, ed
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Married for a second time, to Julie Barrau, a University Lecturer in British Medieval History at the University of Cambridge
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2006· 1 entry
New Scientist: Timothy Gowers forecasts the future
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2005· 1 entry
Introduced the notion of a quasirandom group
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2003· 1 entry
Gowers established a regularity lemma for hypergraphs, analogous to the Szemerédi regularity lemma for graphs
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1999· 1 entry
Became a Fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2010
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1998· 3 entries
Won Fields medal (1998).
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Gowers proved the first effective bounds for Szemerédi's theorem, showing that any subset
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Received the Fields Medal for research connecting the fields of functional analysis and combinatorics
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1997· 1 entry
Proved that the Szemerédi regularity lemma necessarily comes with tower-type bounds
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1996· 1 entry
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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1995· 2 entries
Awarded Whitehead Prize (1995).
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Was lecturer at University College London
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1994· 1 entry
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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1992· 1 entry
Showing that not every infinite-dimensional Banach space has an infinite-dimensional subspace that admits an unconditional Schauder basis
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1988· 1 entry
Gowers married Emily Thomas, a classicist and Cambridge academic: they divorced in 2007
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1981· 1 entry
Gowers won a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad with a perfect score
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1963· 2 entries
Born 1963-11-20.
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Timothy Gowers was born on 20 November 1963, in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England.
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