[LIS-Forum] On the writings of Tim Gowers

Subbiah Arunachalam subbiah.arunachalam at gmail.com
Fri Apr 25 05:29:39 IST 2014


Friends:

This message is particularly meant for librarians working in institutions
where *mathematics* is taught. And of course, it will be useful to
mathematicians at all levels, especially to those who teach.

Please visit

*<http://gowers.wordpress.com/ <http://gowers.wordpress.com/>>, the weblog
of Prof. Timothy Gowers,*

*<https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/
<https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/>> *

and recommend them to students of mathematics in your university. It is a
treasurehouse of mathematical knowledge.

If you are already not familiar with or not heard of him at all, Prof.
Gowere is a Fields Medal winning mathematician working at Trinity College,
Cambridge University.

Best wishes.

Arun


*Here is a short biography: William Timothy Gowers
<http://planetmath.org/node/38367>* (born 1963) English mathematician,
Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1998 he won the
Fields<http://planetmath.org/node/30355> Medal
for research on functional analysis <http://planetmath.org/node/38636> and
combinatorics.

In addition <http://planetmath.org/node/38786> to scholarly papers on
mathematics, Gowers is also the author of AVery Short Introduction to
Mathematics and other works popularizing mathematics. He was hired as a
consultant for the film Proof, starring Gwyneth Paltrow andAnthony Hopkins.

Gowers has Erdős number <http://planetmath.org/ErdHosNumber> 4: he
collaborated with Maurey in 1989, who collaborated with Lindenstrauss in
1996, who collaborated with Preiss in 1976, who collaborated with Erdős in
1976.

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