Graham Robert Everest (14 December 1957 in
Southwick, West Sussex – 30 July 2010) was a British mathematician working on
arithmetic dynamics and
recursive equations in
number theory.
Life
Everest studied at Bedford College (now
Royal Holloway College) of the
University of London where he completed a Ph.D. in 1983 under the supervision of
Colin J. Bushnell
Colin John Bushnell (1947 – 1 January 2021) was a British mathematician specialising in number theory and representation theory. He spent most of his career at King's College London, including a stint as the head of the School of Physical Scie ...
of
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 ...
(''The distribution of normal integral generators in tame extensions of Q.'') He joined the faculty of the
University of East Anglia in 1983 as a lecturer and spent his academic career there.
He was ordained a priest in the
Church of England in 2006. He died of prostate cancer on 30 July 2010, leaving behind his wife and three children.
Awards
In 1983 he became a member of the
London Mathematical Society
The London Mathematical Society (LMS) is one of the United Kingdom's learned societies for mathematics (the others being the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), the Edinburgh Mathematical S ...
. In 2012 he was awarded the
Lester Randolph Ford Award jointly with
Thomas Ward for their work in
diophantine equation
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s.
Writing
* With
Thomas Ward:
Introduction to Number Theory',
Springer-Verlag 2005.
* With
Alf van der Poorten
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Biography
Van der Poor ...
,
Thomas Ward, and
Igor Shparlinski
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* ...
:
Recurrence sequences',
American Mathematical Society 2003.
* With
Thomas Ward:
Heights of polynomials and entropy in algebraic dynamics',
Springer Verlag
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Originally founded in 1842 in ...
1999.
References
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1957 births
2010 deaths
Alumni of King's College London
Academics of the University of East Anglia
20th-century British mathematicians
21st-century British mathematicians
21st-century English Anglican priests
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