Timothy Gowers
Sir Timothy Gowers | |
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Gowers at the Abel Prize ceremony in 2012 | |
| Born | William Timothy Gowers 20 November 1963 |
| Education | King's College School, Cambridge Eton College |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA, MA, PhD) |
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| Institutions | University of Cambridge University College London |
| Thesis | Symmetric Structures in Banach Spaces (1990) |
| Doctoral advisor | Béla Bollobás |
| Doctoral students | David Conlon Ben Green Tom Sanders |
| Website | gowers www |
Sir William Timothy Gowers, FRS (/ˈɡaʊ.ərz/; born 20 November 1963) is a British mathematician. He is the holder of the Combinatorics chair at the Collège de France, a director of research 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.