Trevor Dion Wooley FRS (born 17 September 1964) is a British mathematician and currently Professor of Mathematics at

Purdue University Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and mone ...

. His fields of interest include analytic number theory, Diophantine equations and Diophantine problems, harmonic analysis, the

Hardy-Littlewood circle method A twin prime is a prime number that is either 2 less or 2 more than another prime number—for example, either member of the twin prime pair (41, 43). In other words, a twin prime is a prime that has a prime gap of two. Sometimes the term ''twin p ...

, and the theory and applications of exponential sums. He has made significant breakthroughs on

Waring's problem In number theory, Waring's problem asks whether each natural number ''k'' has an associated positive integer ''s'' such that every natural number is the sum of at most ''s'' natural numbers raised to the power ''k''. For example, every natural numb ...

, for which he was awarded the Salem Prize in 1998. He received his

bachelor's degree A bachelor's degree (from Middle Latin ''baccalaureus'') or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin ''baccalaureatus'') is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six ...

in 1987 from the

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the world's third oldest surviving university and one of its most pr ...

and his PhD, supervised by Robert Charles Vaughan, in 1990 from the

University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degree ...

. In 2007, he was elected Fellow of the

Royal Society The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, re ...

Awards and honours

* Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 1993–1995 * Salem Prize, 1998 *Invited speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians, Beijing 2002 * Elected Fellow of the

, 2007. *

Fröhlich Prize The Fröhlich Prize of the London Mathematical Society is awarded in even numbered years in memory of Albrecht Fröhlich. The prize is awarded for original and extremely innovative work in any branch of mathematics. According to the regulations ...

, 2012. * 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, ...

, 2012.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 1 September 2013. *Invited speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians,

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2014

Selected publications

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* Living people 20th-century British mathematicians 21st-century British mathematicians Purdue University faculty Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Alumni of Imperial College London 1964 births {{UK-mathematician-stub