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Joseph Priestley Award 2015: Timothy Gowers

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
  • His
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  • His

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)
Articles about Gowers and the boycott
  • (an interview with Gowers)