Doctoral students Gergely Ambrus | Name Keith Ball Doctoral advisor Bela Bollobas | |
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Born Keith Martin Ball
December 26, 1960 (age 63)
New York ( 1960-12-26 ) Institutions University of Cambridge
University of Warwick
ICMS
Texas A&M University
University College London Thesis Isometric problems in lpI² and sections of convex sets (1986) Alma mater Trinity College, Cambridge Books Strange Curves, Counting Rabbits, & Other Mathematical Explorations, How to Build a Bonneville Salt Flats Motorcycle Fields Functional analysis, Information theory Institution University of Cambridge, University of Warwick, University College London | ||
Notable awards FRS (2013)
FRSE (2013) | ||
Keith Martin Ball FRS FRSE (born 26 December 1960) is a mathematician and professor at the University of Warwick. He was scientific director of the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS) from 2010 to 2014.
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Education
Ball was educated at Berkhamsted School and Trinity College, Cambridge where he studied the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos and was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics in 1982 and a PhD in 1987 for research supervised by Béla Bollobás.
Research
Keith Ball's research is in the fields of Functional Analysis, High-dimensional and Discrete Geometry 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 (AMS) in 2012 and a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2013. His Royal Society citation reads