Keith Martin Ball FRS FRSE (born 26 December 1960) is a mathematician and professor at the

University of Warwick , mottoeng = Mind moves matter , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £7.0 million (2021) , budget = £698.2 million (2020� ...

. He was scientific director of the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS) from 2010 to 2014.

Education

Ball was educated at

Berkhamsted School Berkhamsted School is an independent day school in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England. The present school was formed in 1997 by the amalgamation of the original Berkhamsted School, founded in 1541 by John Incent, Dean of St Paul's Cathedral ...

and

Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge or Oxford. ...

where he studied the

Cambridge Mathematical Tripos The Mathematical Tripos is the mathematics course that is taught in the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. It is the oldest Tripos examined at the University. Origin In its classical nineteenth-century form, the tripos was ...

and was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics in 1982 and a PhD in 1987 for research supervised by

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 ...

Research

Keith Ball's research is in the fields of

functional analysis Functional analysis is a branch of mathematical analysis, the core of which is formed by the study of vector spaces endowed with some kind of limit-related structure (e.g. inner product, norm, topology, etc.) and the linear functions defined o ...

, high-dimensional and

discrete geometry Discrete geometry and combinatorial geometry are branches of geometry that study combinatorial properties and constructive methods of discrete geometric objects. Most questions in discrete geometry involve finite or discrete sets of basic ge ...

and information theory. He is the author of ''Strange Curves, Counting Rabbits, & Other Mathematical Explorations''.

Awards and honours

Ball was elected a Fellow of the

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

(AMS) in 2012 and a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2013. His Royal Society citation reads

References

1960 births Living people People educated at Berkhamsted School Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the American Mathematical Society English mathematicians Academics of the University of Warwick {{UK-scientist-stub