Imre Leader
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Imre Bennett Leader is a British mathematician
and Professor
of Pure Mathematics, specifically combinatorics, at the University of Cambridge
.
Educated at St Paul's School and Trinity College, Cambridge
, he was also a member of the United Kingdom
team in the International Mathematical Olympiad
in 1981, winning a silver medal; he later led the UK team in 1999, 2000 and 2001.
He has been the most consistently successful Othello
player in Britain, winning the national championship in 1983, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2007 and 2010. He was runner-up in the World Othello Championship in 1983, and was part of the UK team that won the World Team Championship in 1988.
His work has concentrated on combinatorial mathematics. He completed his PhD
, entitled Discrete Isoperimetric Inequalities and Other Combinatorial Results, in 1989, supervised by Béla Bollobás
. He is currently a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
He is the godson of Imre Lakatos
.
Mathematician
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and Professor
Professor
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of Pure Mathematics, specifically combinatorics, at the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
.
Educated at St Paul's School and Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College, Cambridge
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, he was also a member of the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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team in the International Mathematical Olympiad
International Mathematical Olympiad
The International Mathematical Olympiad is an annual six-problem, 42-point mathematical olympiad for pre-collegiate students and is the oldest of the International Science Olympiads. The first IMO was held in Romania in 1959. It has since been held annually, except in 1980...
in 1981, winning a silver medal; he later led the UK team in 1999, 2000 and 2001.
He has been the most consistently successful Othello
Reversi
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player in Britain, winning the national championship in 1983, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2007 and 2010. He was runner-up in the World Othello Championship in 1983, and was part of the UK team that won the World Team Championship in 1988.
His work has concentrated on combinatorial mathematics. He completed his PhD
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, entitled Discrete Isoperimetric Inequalities and Other Combinatorial Results, in 1989, supervised by Béla Bollobás
Béla Bollobás
Béla Bollobás FRS is a Hungarian-born British mathematician who has worked in various areas of mathematics, including functional analysis, combinatorics, graph theory and percolation. As a student, he took part in the first three International Mathematical Olympiads, winning two gold medals...
. He is currently a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
He is the godson of Imre Lakatos
Imre Lakatos
Imre Lakatos was a Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science, known for his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its 'methodology of proofs and refutations' in its pre-axiomatic stages of development, and also for introducing the concept of the 'research programme' in his...
.
External links
- Some publications from DBLP http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/l/Leader:Imre.html