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Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge

Index Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge

The Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge comprises the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics (DPMMS) and the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP). [1]

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Alan Baker (mathematician)

Alan Baker (19 August 1939 – 4 February 2018) was an English mathematician, known for his work on effective methods in number theory, in particular those arising from transcendental number theory.

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Béla Bollobás

Béla Bollobás FRS (born 3 August 1943) is a Hungarian-born British mathematician who has worked in various areas of mathematics, including functional analysis, combinatorics, graph theory, and percolation.

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Cambridge

Cambridge is a university city and the county town of Cambridgeshire, England, on the River Cam approximately north of London.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.

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Centre for Mathematical Sciences (Cambridge)

The Centre for Mathematical Sciences (CMS) at the University of Cambridge houses the university's Faculty of Mathematics, the Isaac Newton Institute, and the Betty and Gordon Moore Library.

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Churchill Professor of Mathematics for Operational Research

The Churchill Professorship of Mathematics for Operational Research is a professorship in operational research at the University of Cambridge.

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Cosmology

Cosmology (from the Greek κόσμος, kosmos "world" and -λογία, -logia "study of") is the study of the origin, evolution, and eventual fate of the universe.

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Darwin Smith

Darwin Smith (1926-1995) was CEO of Kimberly-Clark from 1971 to 1991.

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David Crighton

David George Crighton, FRS (15 November 1942 – 12 April 2000) was a British mathematician and physicist.

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David George Kendall

David George Kendall FRS (15 January 1918 – 23 October 2007) was an English statistician and mathematician, known for his work on probability, statistical shape analysis, ley lines and queueing theory.

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David Spiegelhalter

Sir David John Spiegelhalter, (born 16 August 1953), is a British statistician and Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge.

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David Tong (physicist)

Tong is a professor of theoretical physics at DAMTP in Cambridge, a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and joint recipient of the 2008 Adams Prize.

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David Williams (mathematician)

David Williams FRS is a Welsh mathematician who works in probability theory.

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Dennis Lindley

Dennis Victor Lindley (25 July 1923 – 14 December 2013) was an English statistician, decision theorist and leading advocate of Bayesian statistics.

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Fluid dynamics

In physics and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids - liquids and gases.

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Frank Kelly (mathematician)

Francis Patrick Kelly, CBE, FRS (born 28 December 1950) is Professor of the Mathematics of Systems at the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

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Gabriel Paternain

Gabriel Pedro Paternain is a Uruguayan mathematician.

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Gary Gibbons

Gary William Gibbons (born 1 July 1946) is a British theoretical physicist.

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Geoffrey Grimmett

Geoffrey Richard Grimmett FRS (born 20 December 1950) is a mathematician known for his work on the mathematics of random systems arising in probability theory and statistical mechanics, especially percolation theory and the contact process.

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George Batchelor

George Keith Batchelor FRS (8 March 1920 – 30 March 2000) was an Australian applied mathematician and fluid dynamicist.

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Grae Worster

Michael Grae Worster, born on 16 July, 1958, is a British fluid dynamicist at the University of Cambridge.

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Henry Daniels

Henry Ellis Daniels FRS (2 October 1912 – 16 April 2000) was a British statistician.

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Herchel Smith Professor of Pure Mathematics

The Herchel Smith Professorship of Pure Mathematics is a professorship in pure mathematics at the University of Cambridge.

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Imre Leader

Imre Bennett Leader is a British mathematician and Othello player.

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Isaac Newton Institute

The Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences is an international research institute for mathematics and its many applications at the University of Cambridge.

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J. W. S. Cassels

John William Scott "Ian" Cassels, FRS (11 July 1922 – 27 July 2015) was a British mathematician.

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James R. Norris

James Ritchie Norris (born 29 August 1960) is a mathematician working in probability theory and stochastic analysis.

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John D. Barrow

John David Barrow (born 29 November 1952) is an English cosmologist, theoretical physicist, and mathematician.

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John H. Coates

John Henry Coates, FRS (born 26 January 1945) is a mathematician who was the Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom from 1986 to 2012.

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John Hinch (mathematician)

Edward John Hinch (born 4 March 1947) is a Professor of fluid dynamics at the University of Cambridge, and fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

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John Papaloizou

John Christopher Baillie Papaloizou FRS (born 1947) is a British theoretical physicist.

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John Wishart (statistician)

Dr John Wishart (28 November 1898 – 14 July 1956) was a Scottish mathematician and agricultural statistician.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics

The Journal of Fluid Mechanics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal in the field of fluid mechanics.

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Keith Moffatt

Henry Keith Moffatt, FRS, FRSE (born 12 April 1935) is a Scottish applied mathematician with principal research interests in the field of fluid dynamics.

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List of Cambridge mathematicians

A list of mathematicians, past and present, with associations with the University of Cambridge.

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Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry

The Lowndean chair of Astronomy and Geometry is one of the two major Professorships in Astronomy at Cambridge University, alongside the Plumian Professorship.

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Lucasian Professor of Mathematics

The Lucasian Chair of Mathematics is a mathematics professorship in the University of Cambridge, England; its holder is known as the Lucasian Professor.

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Malcolm Perry (physicist)

Malcolm John Perry (born 13 November 1951) is a British theoretical physicist and professor of theoretical physics at the University of Cambridge.

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Martin Hyland

(John) Martin Elliott Hyland is Professor of Mathematical logic at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

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Mathematical Tripos

The Mathematical Tripos is the mathematics course that is taught in the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.

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Michael Green (physicist)

Michael Boris Green (born 22 May 1946) is a British physicist and one of the pioneers of string theory.

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Particle physics

Particle physics (also high energy physics) is the branch of physics that studies the nature of the particles that constitute matter and radiation.

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Paul Townsend

Paul Kingsley Townsend FRS is a British physicist, currently a Professor of Theoretical Physics in Cambridge University's Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.

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Peter H. Haynes

Peter Howard Haynes (born 23 July 1958) is a British applied mathematician in the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.

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Peter Johnstone (mathematician)

Peter Tennant Johnstone (born 1948) is Professor of the Foundations of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of St. John's College.

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Peter Whittle (mathematician)

Peter Whittle (born 27 February 1927, in Wellington, New Zealand) is a mathematician and statistician, working in the fields of stochastic nets, optimal control, time series analysis, stochastic optimisation and stochastic dynamics. From 1967 to 1994, he was the Churchill Professor of Mathematics for Operational Research at the University of Cambridge.

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Professor of Mathematical Statistics (Cambridge)

The Professorship of Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge was established in 1961 with the support of the Royal Statistical Society and the aid of donations from various companies and banks.

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Professor of Statistical Science (Cambridge)

The Professorship of Statistical Science is a professorship at the University of Cambridge.

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Raymond E. Goldstein

Raymond Ethan Goldstein (born 1961) FRS FInstP is Schlumberger Professor of Complex Physical Systems in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge.

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Richard Jozsa

Richard Jozsa is an Australian mathematician and the holder of the Leigh Trapnell Chair in Quantum Physics at the University of Cambridge.

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Richard Nickl

Richard Nickl (born 13 June 1980) is an Austrian mathematician and currently Professor of Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge.

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Richard Samworth

Richard John Samworth (born May 1978) is the Professor of Statistical Science and the Director of the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and a Teaching Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge.

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Richard Weber (mathematician)

Richard Robert Weber (born 25 February 1953) is a mathematician working in operational research.

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Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics

The Rouse Ball Professorship of Mathematics is one of the senior chairs in the Mathematics Departments at the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford.

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Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics

The Sadleirian Professorship of Pure Mathematics (originally in the statutes and for the first two professors, Sadlerian) is a professorship in pure mathematics within the DPMMS at the University of Cambridge.

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Solid mechanics

Solid mechanics is the branch of continuum mechanics that studies the behavior of solid materials, especially their motion and deformation under the action of forces, temperature changes, phase changes, and other external or internal agents.

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Theory of relativity

The theory of relativity usually encompasses two interrelated theories by Albert Einstein: special relativity and general relativity.

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Tim Pedley

Timothy John "Tim" Pedley (born 23 March 1942) is a British mathematician and a former G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the University of Cambridge.

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Timothy Gowers

Sir William Timothy Gowers, (born 20 November 1963) is a British mathematician.

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge (informally Cambridge University)The corporate title of the university is The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.

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W. B. R. Lickorish

William Bernard Raymond Lickorish (born 19 February 1938) is a mathematician.

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W. V. D. Hodge

Sir William Vallance Douglas Hodge FRS FRSE (17 June 1903 – 7 July 1975) was a British mathematician, specifically a geometer.

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Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk

The Winton Professorship of the Public Understanding of Risk is a professorship within the Statistical Laboratory of the University of Cambridge.

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Wrangler (University of Cambridge)

At the University of Cambridge in England, a "Wrangler" is a student who gains first-class honours in the third year of the University's undergraduate degree in mathematics.

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DAMTP, DPMMS, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faculty_of_Mathematics,_University_of_Cambridge

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