Education
Trinity College; Saint Paul"s School.
mathematician university professor
Trinity College; Saint Paul"s School.
He is Professor of Pure Mathematics, specifically combinatorics, at the University of Cambridge. In 1999-2001, he led the United Kingdom International Maritime Organization team as its chief trainer. He has been the most consistently successful Othello player in Britain, winning the national championship 11 times between 1983 and 2015.
In mathematics, his work has concentrated on combinatorics.
He completed his Doctor of Philosophy, entitled Discrete Isoperimetric Inequalities and Other Combinatorial Results, in 1989, supervised by Béla Bollobáson Godson of mathematical philosopher Imre Lakatos, he is currently a fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge.
He was educated at Street Paul"s School and at Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 1981 he was a member of the United Kingdom team at the International Mathematical Olympiad, where he won a silver medal. In 1983, he was runner-up in the World Othello Championship, and in 1988, he was on the United Kingdom team that won the World Team Championship.
