Thomas William Körner (born 17 February 1946) is a British pure mathematician and the author of three books on popular mathematics. He is titular Professor of

Fourier Analysis In mathematics, Fourier analysis () is the study of the way general functions may be represented or approximated by sums of simpler trigonometric functions. Fourier analysis grew from the study of Fourier series, and is named after Joseph Fo ...

in the

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and a Fellow of Trinity Hall. He is the son of the philosopher Stephan Körner and of Edith Körner. He studied at

Trinity Hall, Cambridge Trinity Hall (formally The College or Hall of the Holy Trinity in the University of Cambridge, colloquially "Tit Hall" ) is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1350, it is th ...

, and wrote his PhD thesis ''Some Results on Kronecker, Dirichlet and Helson Sets'' there in 1971, studying under Nicholas Varopoulos. In 1972 he won the Salem Prize. He has written academic mathematics books aimed at undergraduates: *''Fourier Analysis'' *''Exercises for Fourier Analysis'' *''A Companion to Analysis'' *''Vectors, Pure and Applied'' *''Calculus for the Ambitious'' He has also written three books aimed at secondary school students, the popular 1996 title ''The Pleasures of Counting'', ''Naive Decision Making'' (published 2008) on

probability Probability is a branch of mathematics and statistics concerning events and numerical descriptions of how likely they are to occur. The probability of an event is a number between 0 and 1; the larger the probability, the more likely an e ...

statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a s ...

and

game theory Game theory is the study of mathematical models of strategic interactions. It has applications in many fields of social science, and is used extensively in economics, logic, systems science and computer science. Initially, game theory addressed ...

, and ''Where Do Numbers Come From?''''Where Do Numbers Come From?''
Cambridge University Press (published October 2019).

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Professor Körner's website
1946 births Living people Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge Fellows of Trinity Hall, Cambridge 20th-century British mathematicians 21st-century British mathematicians Mathematical analysts Cambridge mathematicians {{UK-mathematician-stub