Education
He was educated at the University of Cambridge and Sussex University, and prior to taking up his Oxford post was a professor of mathematics at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.
mathematician university professor
He was educated at the University of Cambridge and Sussex University, and prior to taking up his Oxford post was a professor of mathematics at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.
He was the President of the International Mathematical Union from 2003-2006 and a Fellow of Queen"s College, Oxford. Ball"s research interests include elasticity, the calculus of variations, and infinite-dimensional dynamical systems He was knighted in the New Year Honours list for 2006 "for services to Science".
From 1996 - 1998 he was president of the London Mathematical Society, and from 2003 - 2006 he was president of the International Mathematical Union, IMU. In October 2011 he was elected on the Executive Board of International Council for Science for a three-year period starting January 2012.
Ball is listed as an Inter-Services Intelligence highly cited researcher
Royal Society; Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. American Mathematical Society. Academia Europaea; Royal Society of Edinburgh]
He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
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