David Preiss FRS (born January 21, 1947) is a Czech and British mathematician, specializing in
mathematical analysis
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.
He is a
professor
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of
mathematics at the
University of Warwick
, mottoeng = Mind moves matter
, established =
, type = Public research university
, endowment = £7.0 million (2021)
, budget = £698.2 million (2020� ...
Preiss is a recipient of the
Ostrowski Prize (2011)
and the winner of the 2008
London Mathematical Society Pólya Prize for his 1987 result on ''Geometry of Measures'', where he solved the remaining problem in the geometric theoretic structure of sets and
measures in
Euclidean space.
He was an invited speaker at the ICM 1990 in Kyoto.
He is a
Fellow of the Royal Society (2004) and a Foreign Fellow of the
Learned Society of the Czech Republic
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(2003).
He is associate editor of the mathematical journal ''
Real Analysis Exchange''.
Editorial Board
''Real Analysis Exchange''. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
Publications
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References
External links
David Preiss webpage at University of Warwick
1947 births
Living people
English mathematicians
Academics of the University of Warwick
Fellows of the Royal Society
Measure theorists
Functional analysts
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