Imre Leader
Imre Leader (born October 30, 1963 ) is a British mathematician who deals with combinatorics .
Leader attended St. Paul's School in London. In 1981 he won the silver medal at the Mathematics Olympiad as a member of the British team. He studied at Trinity College at Cambridge University , where he received his doctorate in 1989 under Béla Bollobás ( Discrete isoperimetric inequalities and other combinatorial results ). Today he is Professor of Mathematics there and has been a Fellow of Trinity College since 2000.
He has Hungarian roots and is Imre Lakatos' godchild . With William Timothy Gowers and June Barrow-Green he was one of the editors of the Princeton Companion to Mathematics (Princeton University Press 2008).
In 1999 he received the Whitehead Prize .
He is multiple British champion in the game of Othello (for example 2002, 2006, 2010), in the British rankings he was in 2012 in place 2, was second at the World Cup in 1983, has prevailed in the final of the European Championship 2019 against Matthias Berg and was Part of the British team that won the 1988 World Cup.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Imre Leader in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- ^ British EGP Results ( Memento November 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).
- ^ World Othello Federation ( Memento March 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Tournament report EGP 2019
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| SURNAME | Leader, Imre |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 30, 1963 |