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.