Citizenship United Kingdom Role Professor of mathematics | Name Robin Wilson | |
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Born 5 December 1943 (age 80) United Kingdom ( 1943-12-05 ) Alma mater University College School, Hampstead, LondonUniversity of Oxford (Balliol College)University of Pennsylvania Parents Harold Wilson, Mary Wilson, Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx Education University of Oxford, University of Pennsylvania, University College School, Balliol College Grandparents Ethel Wilson, James Herbert Wilson Books Lewis Carroll in numberland, Stamping Through Mathematics, An Atlas of Graphs, How to Solve Sudoku, Mathematical Conversations ‑ Selectio | ||
The mathematics that counts professor robin wilson
Robin James Wilson (born 5 December 1943) is an emeritus professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Open University, having previously been Head of the Pure Mathematics Department and Dean of the Faculty. He was a Stipendiary Lecturer at Pembroke College, Oxford and, as of 2006, Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London, where he has also been a visiting professor. On occasion, he guest-teaches at Colorado College in the United States.
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- The mathematics that counts professor robin wilson
- The great mathematicians professor robin wilson and dr raymond flood
- Education
- Mathematics
- Other interests
- Other publications
- References
From January 1999 to September 2003, Robin Wilson was editor-in-chief of the European Mathematical Society Newsletter.
Robin Wilson is the son of Harold Wilson, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He is married with two daughters.
The great mathematicians professor robin wilson and dr raymond flood
Education
Mathematics
Wilson's academic interests lie in graph theory, particularly in colouring problems, e.g. the four colour problem, and algebraic properties of graphs.
He also researches the history of mathematics, particularly British mathematics and mathematics in the 17th century and the period 1860 to 1940 and the history of graph theory and combinatorics.
In 1974 he won the Lester R. Ford Award from the Mathematical Association of America for his expository article An introduction to matroid theory.
Due to his collaboration on a 1977 paper with the noted Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős, Wilson has an Erdős number of 1.
In July 2008 he published a study of the mathematical work of Lewis Carroll, the creator of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass — Lewis Carroll in Numberland: His Fantastical Mathematical Logical Life (Allen Lane, 2008. ISBN 978-0-7139-9757-6).
He is President of the British Society for the History of Mathematics.
Other interests
He has strong interests in music, including the operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, and is the co-author (with Frederic Lloyd) of Gilbert and Sullivan: The Official D'Oyly Carte Picture History. In 2007 he was a guest on Private Passions, the biographical music discussion programme on BBC Radio 3.
Other publications
Wilson has written or edited about thirty books to date, including popular books on sudoku and the Four Color Theorem: