Eugene Victor Flynn is an American-born

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. He is currently a professor of mathematics at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

Biography

Flynn was born in

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, the son of academic James Flynn who took up a position at the

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. He first studied at the University of Otago, before taking a PhD at

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. ...

, supervised by J. W. S. Cassels. He then spent a year as an assistant professor at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

, returning to Cambridge as a research fellow at

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. He then moved to the

University of Liverpool , mottoeng = These days of peace foster learning , established = 1881 – University College Liverpool1884 – affiliated to the federal Victoria Universityhttp://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/2004/4 University of Manchester Act 200 ...

, including four years as head of the pure mathematics department there. In 2005 he left Liverpool to move to the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

; he took up a fellowship at New College in October 2005 and was appointed a university professor of mathematics in October 2006. His fields of specialisation are the arithmetic of

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and algebraic geometry.

Family

Flynn's father, James Flynn, was primarily involved in the research of intelligence and is noteworthy for his work on the

Flynn effect The Flynn effect is the substantial and long-sustained increase in both fluid and crystallized intelligence test scores that were measured in many parts of the world over the 20th century. When intelligence quotient (IQ) tests are initially stand ...

; he died in 2020. His sister, Natalie Flynn, is a clinical psychologist in

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, New Zealand.

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