Sir William Timothy Gowers - Curriculum Vitae#

Education:

• Kings College School, Cambridge and Eton College
  
• Trinity College Cambridge PhD 1990 (supervisor Bela Bollobas)

Academic employment:

• 2009-present Royal Society Research Professor
  
• 1998-present Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics, Cambridge
  
• 2001-2002 Visiting Professor Princeton University
  
• 1995-1998 University Lecturer, Cambridge
  
• 1994-1998 Reader, University College London
  
• 1991-1994 Lecturer, University College London
  
• Research Fellow Trinity College Cambridge 1989-1993

Honours:

• European Mathematical Society Prize 1996
  
• Fields Medal 1998
  
• Fellow of the Royal Society 1999
  
• Member American Philosophical Society 2010
  
• Knighthood 2012 "for services to mathematics"
  
• Hon DSc University of St Andrews 2013

Activities outside academia:

Public awareness of mathematics, and the teaching of mathematics, as exemplified in:

Gowers, Timothy, ed. (2008). The Princeton Companion to Mathematics. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-11880-2.

Gowers, Timothy (2002). Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0192853615.

and the Weblog: https://gowers.wordpress.com