William Timothy Gowers

William Timothy Gowers (born November 20 1963, Wiltshire, United Kingdom) is a British mathematician. He is as of 1998 Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Trinity College.

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In 1996 he received the Prize of the European Mathematical Society. He was winner of the 1998 Fields Medal for research on functional analysis and combinatorics. In 1999 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.

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He is the son of composer Patrick Gowers and greatgrandson of British civil servant Sir Ernest Gowers.

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Wiltshire: Wiltshire (abbreviated Wilts) is a large southern English county. Considered as a ceremonial county, it is landlocked and borders the counties of Hampshire, Dorset, Somerset, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire, and contains the unitary authority of Swindon. The county town is Trowbridge, si...

Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics: The Rouse Ball Professorship of Mathematics is one of the senior chairs in Mathematics at Cambridge University, and was founded in 1927 by a bequest from the mathematician W. W. Rouse Ball....

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