Trevor Wooley
Trevor D. Wooley | |
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Trevor D. Wooley | |
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| Known for | Waring's problem |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematician |
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| Thesis | On Simultaneous Additive Equations and Waring's Problem (1990) |
| Doctoral advisor | Bob Vaughan |
| Doctoral students | Thomas 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.