Edward Brian Davies FRS (born 13 June 1944) is a former professor of Mathematics,

King's College London King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington. In 1836, King's ...

(1981–2010), and is the author of the

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book ''Science in the Looking Glass: What do Scientists Really Know''. In 2010, he was awarded a Gauss Lecture by the

German Mathematical Society The German Mathematical Society (german: Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung, DMV) is the main professional society of German mathematicians and represents German mathematics within the European Mathematical Society (EMS) and the International Mathe ...

Publications

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External links

Brian Davies' King's College London Home Page

''Full proof? Let's trust it to the black box'' Times Higher Education 1 September 2006

by

Colva Roney-Dougal Colva Mary Roney-Dougal is a British mathematician specializing in group theory and computational algebra. She is Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of St Andrews, and the Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Compu ...

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Davies, E. Brian 1944 births Living people Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford Academics of King's College London Fellows of King's College London Fellows of the Royal Society 21st-century British mathematicians Welsh mathematicians Fellows of St John's College, Oxford Academic journal editors 20th-century British mathematicians