Residence Cambridge Name Thomas Korner Notable awards Salem Prize | Role Mathematician Awards Salem Prize Parents Stephan Korner | |
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Born 17 February 1946 (age 78) ( 1946-02-17 ) Institutions University of Cambridge Alma mater Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge Thesis Some Results on Kronecker, Dirichlet and Helson Sets (1971) Education University of Cambridge, Trinity Hall, Cambridge Books The pleasures of counting, A companion to analysis, Calculus for the Ambitious, Naive Decision Making, Vectors - Pure and Applied | ||
Doctoral advisor Nicholas Varopoulos | ||
Thomas William Körner (born 17 February 1946) is a British pure mathematician and the author of school books. He is titular Professor of Fourier Analysis in the University of Cambridge 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, 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 four academic mathematics books aimed at undergraduates:
He has also written two books aimed at secondary school students, the popular 1996 title The Pleasures of Counting and Naive Decision Making (published 2008) on probability, statistics and game theory.