Graham Brightwell is a British mathematician working in the field of discrete mathematics. Currently a professor at the

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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;

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;

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; discrete mathematics and

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. (Bollobás supervised his PhD on "Linear Extensions of Partially Ordered Sets" at

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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

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. 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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{{DEFAULTSORT:Brightwell, Graham 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