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William Timothy Gowers

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William Timothy Gowers FRS (born November 20 1963, Wiltshire) is a British mathematician. He is as of 1998 Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Trinity College. He completed his PhD entitled 'Symmetric Structures in Banach Spaces' at the University of Cambridge in 1990 under the supervision of Béla Bollobás, and from 1991 to 1995 he was a member of the Department of Mathematics at University College London, where he performed his seminal work.

In 1996 he received the Prize of the European Mathematical Society. He was winner of the 1998 Fields Medal for research on functional analysis and combinatorics. In 1999 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.

He is the son of composer Patrick Gowers, great-grandson of British civil servant Sir Ernest Gowers and great-great-grandson of neurologist Sir William Gowers.

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Fields Medalists

1936: Ahlfors • Douglas || 1950: Schwartz • Selberg || 1954: Kodaira • Serre || 1958: Roth • Thom || 1962: Hörmander • Milnor || 1966: Atiyah • Cohen • Grothendieck • Smale || 1970: Baker • Hironaka • Novikov • Thompson || 1974: Bombieri • Mumford || 1978: Deligne • Fefferman • Margulis • Quillen || 1982: Connes • Thurston • Yau || 1986: Donaldson • Faltings • Freedman || 1990: Drinfeld • Jones • Mori • Witten || 1994: Zelmanov • Lions • Bourgain • Yoccoz || 1998: Borcherds • Gowers • Kontsevich • McMullen || 2002: Lafforgue • Voevodsky || 2006: Okounkov • Perelman • Tao • Werner

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