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Doctoral advisor
  
Richard Haydon

Name
  
Terry Lyons

Role
  
Mathematician


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Born
  
Terence John Lyons 4 May 1953 (age 70) (
1953-05-04
)

Institutions
  
UCLAImperial College LondonUniversity of EdinburghUniversity of Oxford

Alma mater
  
Trinity College, CambridgeUniversity of Oxford

Thesis
  
Some problems in harmonic analysis and probabilistic potential theory (1981)

Notable awards
  
FRSRollo Davidson Prize (1985)Whitehead Prize (1986)Polya Prize (2000)

Books
  
System Control and Rough Paths

Awards
  

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Terence "Terry" John Lyons FRSE, FLSW, FRS is a British mathematician, specializing in stochastic analysis. Lyons is the Wallis Professor of Mathematics, a fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford and a Faculty Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute. He had been the director of the Oxford-Man Institute from 2011 to 2015 and the president of the London Mathematical Society from 2013 to 2015. His mathematical contributions have been to probability, harmonic analysis, the numerical analysis of stochastic differential equations, and quantitative finance. In particular he developed what is now known as the theory of rough paths.

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Education

Lyons obtained his B.A. at Trinity College, Cambridge and his D.Phil at the University of Oxford.

Career

Lyons has held positions at UCLA, Imperial College London, the University of Edinburgh and is currently Wallis Professor of Mathematics. He had been the Director of the Oxford-Man Institute at the University of Oxford from 15 June 2011 to 15 December 2015. He also held a number of visiting positions in Europe and the USA.

Together with Zhongmin Qian he wrote the book "System Control and Rough Paths" and together with Michael J. Caruana and Thierry Lévy the book "Differential Equations Driven by Rough Paths".

Honours and awards

In 1985 he was awarded the Rollo Davidson Prize.

In 2000, he was awarded the Pólya Prize of the London Mathematical Society.

He has been a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh for over 20 years, since 2002 he is a Fellow of the Royal Society, since 2005 a fellow of the IMS, and since 2011 a fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. In 2013, he was elected president of the London Mathematical Society.

In 2007 he was awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Toulouse, he was made an Honorary Fellow of Aberystwyth University in 2010 and Cardiff University in 2012. In 2017 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo.

References

Terry Lyons (mathematician) Wikipedia