Timothy gowers mathematics dictionary

Basic information about me

In October 2020 I became a professor at the Collège de France. My official title is Professeur titulaire de la chaire Combinatoire, which translates as the holder of the combinatorics chair.

Timothy gowers mathematics dictionary

Chairs are not fixed for all time, and this is the first time that there has been one in combinatorics. Before that I was Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge. Now, I still live in Cambridge and hold a part-time position in the department, which means that I continue to lecture here (typically one Part III course per year) and to supervise research students.

I am a combinatorialist in a fairly broad sense: first and foremost I am drawn to problems with statements that I can understand without having to do too much work.

And within that category I tend to prefer problems that promise to involve other areas of mathematics, especially analysis, either by using tools from those areas or by providing tools to those areas.

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