Thomas William Körner

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Thomas William Körner (born February 17, 1946 ) is a British mathematician who deals with analysis, especially Fourier analysis .

He studied at Trinity Hall at Cambridge University , where he obtained his PhD in 1971 under Nicholas Varopoulos (Some Results on Kronecker, Dirichlet and Helson Sets). Körner is a Fellow of Trinity Hall and Professor of Fourier Analysis at Cambridge. There he is Chairman of the Faculty Board of Mathematics and junior Director of Mathematical Studies at Trinity Hall (2009). In addition to analysis textbooks, Körner wrote, among other things, a popular scientific mathematics book ("Mathematical Thinking"), with application examples from meteorology to the military.

In 1972 he received the Salem Prize . He is known for his textbooks and his weakness for constructing counterexamples in Fourier analysis.

He is the son of the British philosopher Stephan Körner and the British administrator and health reformer Edith, née Löwy (both of whom fled to England as Jews from Czechoslovakia in 1939 ). His sister Ann Körner is a translator and biochemist. She is married to Sidney Altman .

Fonts

  • with Robert Kaufman: Pseudofunctions and Helson Sets. Societe Mathematique de France, 1973.
  • Fourier Analysis. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
  • Exercises for Fourier analysis. Cambridge University Press, 1993.
  • The pleasures of counting. Cambridge University Press 1996.
    German: Mathematical thinking - from the pleasure of dealing with numbers. Birkhäuser 1998, ISBN 3764358335 .
  • A companion to analysis - a second first and a first second course in analysis. AMS, 2004.
  • Naive decision making - mathematics applied to the social world. Cambridge University Press, 2008.

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