Julia Wolf is a British mathematician specialising in

arithmetic combinatorics In mathematics, arithmetic combinatorics is a field in the intersection of number theory, combinatorics, ergodic theory and harmonic analysis. Scope Arithmetic combinatorics is about combinatorial estimates associated with arithmetic operations (ad ...

who was the 2016 winner of the Anne Bennett Prize of the London Mathematical Society. She is currently a professor in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at the

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Education and career

Wolf writes that her childhood ambition was to become a carpenter, and that she became attracted to science only after subscribing to ''

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'' as a teenager. She read mathematics at

Clare College, Cambridge Clare College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. The college was founded in 1326 as University Hall, making it the second-oldest surviving college of the University after Peterhouse. It was refound ...

, earning a bachelor's degree there in 2004 and completing the

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in 2003. She remained at Cambridge for graduate study, and completed her PhD there in 2008. Her dissertation, ''Arithmetic Structure in Sets of Integers'', was supervised by

Timothy Gowers Sir William Timothy Gowers, (; born 20 November 1963) is a British mathematician. He is Professeur titulaire of the Combinatorics chair at the Collège de France, and director of research at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity Col ...

. She was also mentored in her doctoral studies by Ben Green, whom she met when he was a postdoctoral researcher at Cambridge from 2001 to 2005. Since earning her doctorate she has been a postdoctoral fellow at the

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, Triennial assistant professor at

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, Hadamard associate professor at the

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(earning a habilitation at the

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in 2012), and Heilbronn reader in combinatorics and number theory at the

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. She returned to Cambridge as university lecturer in 2018, and is a Fellow of Clare College.

Recognition

In 2016 the London Mathematical Society gave Wolf their

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"in recognition of her outstanding contributions to additive number theory, combinatorics and harmonic analysis and to the mathematical community." The award citation particularly cited her work with Gowers on counting solutions to

systems of linear equations In mathematics, a system of linear equations (or linear system) is a collection of one or more linear equations involving the same variables. For example, :\begin 3x+2y-z=1\\ 2x-2y+4z=-2\\ -x+\fracy-z=0 \end is a system of three equations in th ...

over

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s, and her work on quadratic analogues of the Goldreich–Levin theorem.

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