Trevor Wooley
Trevor D. Wooley (* 1964 ) is a British mathematician who deals with analytical number theory.
Life
Wooley studied from 1984 at Gonville and Caius College of Cambridge University , where he earned his bachelor's degree in 1987. From 1988 he studied at Imperial College in London, where he obtained his doctorate in 1990 under Robert Charles Vaughan ( On Simultaneous Additive Equations and Waring's Problem ). From 1991 he was Assistant Professor, 1995 Associate Professor and from 1998 Professor at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Since 2007 he has been Professor at the University of Bristol , where he is also Associate Director of the Heilbronn Institute of Mathematics Research.
Wooley is particularly concerned with the development of the Hardy-Littlewood circle method and with Winogradow's method of handling exponential sums. He made important advances in Waring's problem , some of which he published with Vaughan. He also deals with problems related to Helmut Hasse's local-global principle .
He was a Sloan Research Fellow from 1993 to 1995, a Packard Fellow from 1993 to 1998, and in 1993 he received the Junior Berwick Prize of the London Mathematical Society . In 2007 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society , whose Wolfson Research Merit Award he received. In 1998 he received the Salem Prize and in 2012 the Fröhlich Prize . Wooley was the invited speaker at the ICM in Beijing in 2002 ( Diophantine methods for exponential sums, and exponential sums for diophantine problems ). In 2014 he was invited speaker at the ICM in Seoul ( Translation invariance, exponential sums, and Waring's problem ). He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .
Web links
- Homepage in Bristol
- Mathworld on Waring Problem with references to work by Wooley
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Wooley, Trevor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wooley, Trevor D. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1964 |