Robin Wilson (mathematician)
Robin James Wilson (born December 5, 1943 ) is a British mathematician, mathematician and author.
Wilson is the son of former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson (1916–1995) and his wife, the poet Mary Wilson, née. Baldwin (1916-2018). He studied mathematics at Oxford and the University of Pennsylvania , where he received his PhD in number theory under Nesmith Ankeny in 1968 ( An extension of the large sieve to algebraic number fields ). He was Professor at the Open University (now retired) and Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, University of London.
He has authored several books on mathematics in the broadest sense (for example the history of mathematics in postage stamps, Sudoku , Lewis Carroll as a mathematician, music and mathematics, Isaac Newton , August Ferdinand Möbius , on the history of graph theory and combinatorics, and in particular on the history of the four-color problem ). In his scientific work as a mathematician, he published, among other things, on the coloring of graphs and the theory of matroids . He also wrote a book on the operas by Gilbert and Sullivan . He also wrote a book on math and mathematicians on postage and had a column on the subject in the Mathematical Intelligencer. In 2005 he was awarded the George Pólya Award .
From 1999 to 2003 he was editor of the European Mathematical Society newsletter.
Fonts
- Hidden Word Sudoku , Infinite Ideas Limited 2005: ISBN 1-904902-74-X
- How to Solve Sudoku , Infinite Ideas Limited 2005: ISBN 1-904902-62-6
- Editor with Marlow Anderson and Victor Katz: Sherlock Holmes in Babylon and Other Tales of Mathematical History , Mathematical Association of America, 2004, ISBN 0-88385-546-1
- Four Colors Suffice: How the Map Problem Was Solved , Allen Lane (Penguin), 2002, ISBN 0-7139-9670-6
- Stamping through Mathematics , Springer, 2001, ISBN 0-387-98949-8
- with Joan Aldous: Graphs and Applications: An Introductory Approach , Springer, 2000: ISBN 1-85233-259-X
- with Ronald C. Read : An Atlas of Graphs , Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998, ISBN 0-19-853289-X
- with Norman L. Biggs, Keith Lloyd: Graph Theory 1736-1936 , Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976: ISBN 0-19-853901-0
- with John Fauvel , Raymond Flood Music and mathematics- from Pythagoras to Fractals , Oxford University Press 2006, ISBN 0-19-929893-9
- with Jeremy Gray (editor): Mathematical Conversations: Selections from the Mathematical Intelligencer , Springer, 2000, ISBN 0-387-98686-3
- with John Fauvel , Raymond Flood: Oxford Figures: 800 Years of Mathematical Sciences. History of Mathematics at Oxford , Oxford University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-19-852309-2
- Editor with Flood, Fauvel, Michael Shortland: Newton's work - the foundation of modern natural sciences , Birkhäuser 1993 (English original: Let Newton be!, Oxford University Press 1988)
- with Flood, Wilson: Möbius and his band - the rise of mathematics and astronomy in Germany , Birkhäuser 1994 (English original: Möbius and his band - Mathematics and Astronomy in 19th century Germany , Oxford University Press 1993)
- Lewis Carroll in Numberland: His Fantastical Mathematical Logical Life , Allen Lane 2008
literature
- Donald J. Albers, GL Alexanderson, Constance Reid More Mathematical People - Contemporary Conversations , Academic Press 1994
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wilson, Robin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wilson, Robin James (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British mathematician, author, mathematician and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 5, 1943 |