Education
He was a research student at the University of Cambridge and obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in 1988 writing on "Linear Extensions of Partially Ordered Sets" under the supervision of Béla Bollobáson
He was a research student at the University of Cambridge and obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in 1988 writing on "Linear Extensions of Partially Ordered Sets" under the supervision of Béla Bollobáson
He has published nearly 100 papers in pure mathematics, including over a dozen with Béla Bollobáson His research interests include random combinatorial structures. Partially ordered sets.
Algorithms.
Random graphs. Discrete mathematics and graph theory. Professor Brightwell started playing Othello in 1985, after finding himself sharing an apartment with Imre Leader.
He is currently a Professor at the London School of Economics.