Timothy Gowers
Tim Gowers is the 2015 recipient of the Joseph Priestley Award at ºìÐÓÖ±²¥app.
He will visit campus March 26 and 27, 2015, and he will give a on March 26 at 7:00 in the Stern Center Great Room
Below we have links to items written by and about Tim Gowers.
General
- Tim Gowers’s
- His
- His biography at the
- His
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Books, Articles, and Presentations for General Audiences
- (Oxford University Press, 2002)
- (Princeton University Press, 2008)
- Video (one hour): "" (2000)
- "" (downloadable ) (Visions in Mathematics, 2000)
- "" (18 Unconventional Essays on the Nature of Mathematics, 2006)
- "" (Mathematics: Frontiers and Perspectives, 2000)
- "" (An Invitation to Mathematics, 2011)
- "" (Best Writing on Mathematics 2012)
- "" (Best Writing on Mathematics 2012)
- "" (Albert Einstein Memorial Lectures, 2012)
- "" (Circles disturbed: The interplay of mathematics and narrative, 2012)
- On his personal website: on algebra, analysis, geometry, logic, set theory, number theory, probability, and other topics. The items "contain ideas that I have come across in one way or another and wish I had been told as an undergraduate."
Research Articles
Gowers has along with short summaries. View all of his scholarly publications at . Here are links to some of his publications.
- "" (Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, 1993)
- "" (Journal of the AMS, 1993)
- "" (Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians 1994, 1995)
- "" (Mathematische Annalen, 1997)
- "" (Geometric and Functional Analysis, 1997)
- "" (Geometric and Functional Analysis, 1998)
- "" (Geometric and Functional Analysis, 2001)
- "" (Annals of Mathematics, 2002)
- "" (Combinatorics, Probability and Computing, 2006)
- "" (Annals of Mathematics, 2007)
- "" (Combinatorics, Probability and Computing, 2008)
- "" (2013)
The Polymath Project
- "" (Nature, 2009)
- "" (An Irregular Mind, 2010)
- Gowers's that started the Polymath project (and his )
- Wikipedia's
- Gowers's "a Wiki-style site that is intended to develop into a large store of useful mathematical problem-solving techniques"
Elsevier Boycott
- His
- website (where ~15,000 academics pledged to boycott Elsevier)
- The Cost of Knowledge
- (by Gowers and others)
- (an interview with Gowers)