Education
He studied at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and wrote his Doctor of Philosophy thesis Some Results on Kronecker, Dirichlet and Helson Sets there in 1971, studying under Nicholas Varopoulos.
mathematician university professor
He studied at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and wrote his Doctor of Philosophy thesis Some Results on Kronecker, Dirichlet and Helson Sets there in 1971, studying under Nicholas Varopoulos.
He is titular Professor of Fourier Analysis in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity Hall. He is the son of the philosopher Stephan Körner and of Edith Körner. He has written three academic mathematics books aimed at undergraduates:
Fourier Analysis
Exercises for Fourier Analysis
A Companion to Analysis
He has also written two books aimed at secondary school students, the popular 1996 title The Pleasures of Counting and Naive Decision Making (published 2008) on probability, statistics and game theory.