Jonathan Bennett is a mathematician and Professor of Mathematical Analysis at the

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. He was a recipient of the

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of the

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in 2011 for "his foundational work on multilinear inequalities in

harmonic A harmonic is a wave with a frequency that is a positive integer multiple of the '' fundamental frequency'', the frequency of the original periodic signal, such as a sinusoidal wave. The original signal is also called the ''1st harmonic'', ...

and

geometric analysis Geometric analysis is a mathematical discipline where tools from differential equations, especially elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs), are used to establish new results in differential geometry and differential topology In mathem ...

, and for a number of major results in the theory of oscillatory integrals."

Education

In 1995 he graduated with a BA in mathematics from

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at the

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. He went on to study for a PhD in

harmonic analysis Harmonic analysis is a branch of mathematics concerned with the representation of functions or signals as the superposition of basic waves, and the study of and generalization of the notions of Fourier series and Fourier transforms (i.e. an e ...

under Anthony Carbery at the

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, graduating in 1999.

Career

Bennett has done postdoctoral work at the University of Edinburgh, the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and

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. He joined the University of Birmingham in 2005. Bennett is an editor for the journals ''

Mathematika ''Mathematika'' is a peer-reviewed mathematics journal that publishes both pure and applied mathematical articles. The journal was founded by Harold Davenport in the 1950s. The journal is published by the London Mathematical Society, on behalf of ...

'' and ''

Quarterly Journal of Mathematics The ''Quarterly Journal of Mathematics'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed mathematics journal established in 1930 from the merger of '' The Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics'' and the '' Messenger of Mathematics''. According to the '' ...

''. Bennett is known for his work in harmonic analysis, particularly in applying the methods of heat flow monotonicity and induction-on-scale arguments to prove inequalities arising in harmonic and geometric analysis, in particular for his work (jointly with Anthony Carbery and

Terence Tao Terence Chi-Shen Tao (; born 17 July 1975) is an Australian-American mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he holds the James and Carol Collins chair. His research includes ...

) on the multilinear Kakeya conjecture. Bennett has an Erdős number of 3, via his collaboration with Tao.

References

External links

Bennett's page at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.A blog post by Tao explaining induction-on-scales arguments, with reference to his joint work with Bennett and Carbery
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 20th-century British mathematicians 21st-century British mathematicians Alumni of Hertford College, Oxford Alumni of the University of Edinburgh College of Science and Engineering Academics of the University of Birmingham Mathematical analysts Whitehead Prize winners British mathematicians {{UK-mathematician-stub