Sir Timothy Gowers, Fields Medal 1998

Sir William Timothy Gowers, FRS is a British mathematician. He is a Royal Society Research Professor at the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge, where he also holds the Rouse Ball chair, and is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1998 he received the Fields Medal for research connecting the fields of functional analysis and combinatorics.

Awards

• Fields Medal (1998)
• Knight Bachelor (2012)
• Nature's 10 (2012)
• De Morgan Medal (2016)
• Sylvester Medal (2016)