Mathematician:William Timothy Gowers

Mathematician

British mathematician most famous for connecting the fields of functional analysis and combinatorics.

Fields Medal

William Timothy Gowers was awarded a Fields Medal in $\text {1998}$ at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin, Germany:

For his contributions to functional analysis and combinatorics, developing a new vision of infinite-dimensional geometry, including the solution of two of Banach's problems and the discovery of the so called Gowers' dichotomy: every infinite dimensional Banach space contains either a subspace with many symmetries (technically, with an unconditional basis) or a subspace every operator on which is Fredholm of index zero.

Nationality

British

History

• Born: 20 November 1963 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England

Theorems and Definitions

• Gowers Norm
• Gowers' Dichotomy
• Balog-Szemerédi-Gowers Theorem (with Antal Balog and Endre Szemerédi)

Results named for William Timothy Gowers can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for William Timothy Gowers can be found here.

Publications

• 1990: Symmetric Structures in Banach Spaces

Also known as

Generally known as Timothy Gowers, or Tim.

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "William Timothy Gowers": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Gowers, William Timothy (1963-  )