Graham Brightwell is a British mathematician working in the field of
discrete mathematics.
Currently a professor at the
London School of Economics
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, he has published nearly 100 papers in
pure mathematics, including over a dozen with
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. He was strongly influenced by Pa ...
. His research interests include
random combinatorial structures; partially ordered sets;
algorithms
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;
random graphs
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;
discrete mathematics and
graph theory
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. (Bollobás supervised his
PhD on "Linear Extensions of Partially Ordered Sets" at
Cambridge
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, awarded 1988.
)
Othello
Brightwell started playing
Othello in 1985, after finding himself sharing an apartment with fellow mathematician and Othello player
Imre Leader
Imre Bennett Leader is a British Othello player, employed as a professor of pure mathematics at Cambridge University.
As a child, he was a pupil at the private St Paul's School and won a silver medal on the British team at the 1981 Internatio ...
. He has finished three times as runner-up in the World Othello Championship and is a 5-time British Champion, and has served as chairman of the British Othello Federation and as editor of the British Othello Newsletter.
He created the Brightwell Quotient, often used in Othello tournaments, to resolve ties.
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1962 births
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
20th-century British mathematicians
21st-century British mathematicians
Reversi players
Combinatorialists
Academics of the London School of Economics
Living people