Thomas Körner
Mathematician, Academic
1946 –
Who is Thomas Körner?
Thomas William Körner is a British pure mathematician and the author of school books. 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 studied at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and wrote his PhD thesis Some Results on Kronecker, Dirichlet and Helson Sets there in 1971, studying under Nicholas Varopoulos. In 1972 he won the Salem Prize.
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 on probability, statistics and game theory.
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- Born
- Feb 17, 1946
- Also known as
- Thomas William Körner
- T. W. Körner
- Parents
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Trinity Hall, Cambridge
- University of Cambridge
- Lived in
- Cambridge
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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