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Also Known As Sir William Timothy Gowers
Born November 20, 1963 (age 61) • Marlborough • England
Awards And Honors Fields Medal (1998)
Subjects Of Study Banach space
Jean Bourgain
Belgian mathematician
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
British mathematician and philosopher
Mary Cartwright, 1947
Mary Cartwright
British mathematician
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Fred Hoyle
Sir Fred Hoyle
British mathematician and astronomer
Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker
British mathematician
James H. Wilkinson
English mathematician
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, 2004.
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah
British mathematician
Brook Taylor, detail of a gouache miniature by Joseph Goupy; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Brook Taylor
British mathematician
Klaus Friedrich Roth
British mathematician
Simon Donaldson
British mathematician
Alan Baker
British mathematician
Sir William Hodge
British mathematician
David Mumford
British mathematician
Richard Ewen Borcherds
British mathematician
Stefan Banach
Polish mathematician
Understanding Newton's theory of universal gravitation
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
Alain Connes
Alain Connes
French mathematician
Stephen Smale
American mathematician

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