Trevor Wooley

Trevor D. Wooley
Trevor D. Wooley
Education
Known forWaring's problem
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsMathematician
Institutions
Thesis On Simultaneous Additive Equations and Waring's Problem  (1990)
Doctoral advisorBob Vaughan
Doctoral studentsThomas Bloom

Trevor Dion Wooley is a British mathematician, the Andris A. Zoltners Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Purdue University. His fields of interest include analytic number theory, Diophantine equations and Diophantine problems, harmonic analysis, the Hardy-Littlewood circle method, and the theory and applications of exponential sums. He has made significant breakthroughs on Waring's problem, for which he was awarded the Salem Prize in 1998.