Keith Martin Ball
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| Born | Keith Martin Ball December 26, 1960[2] |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
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| Thesis | Isometric problems in lp̲ and sections of convex sets (1986) |
| Doctoral advisor | Béla Bollobás[3] |
| Doctoral students | Gergely Ambrus[3] |
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Keith Martin Ball FRS[4] FRSE[1] (born 26 December 1960) is a mathematician and professor at the University of Warwick and director of the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS).[5][6][6][7][8][9]
Education
Ball was educated at Berkhamsted School[2] and Trinity College, Cambridge[2] 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.[10]
Research
Ball research is in Functional analysis, High-dimensional and Discrete geometry and Information theory. He is the author of Strange Curves, Counting Rabbits, & Other Mathematical Explorations.[11]
Awards and honours
Ball was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2013. His nomination reads
Keith Ball is an exceptionally original mathematician whose work has had a major influence on two branches of mathematics: functional analysis and information theory. He proved the first extension theorems for Lipschitz functions not reducible to one-point extensions and solved the reverse isoperimetric problem. He produced a sharp version of the Banach-Steinhaus Theorem conjectured in the 50’s, and proved that infinitely many values of the Riemann function at odd integers are irrational (with Rivoal). (With Artstein, Barthe and Naor) he answered a fundamental question in information theory by showing that the central limit theorem of probability is driven by an analogue of the second law of thermodynamics. Since 2010 Ball has served as Scientific Director of ICMS in Edinburgh. He also successfully popularises science, for example in his book "Strange curves…."[4]
References
- ^ a b http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/lists/fellows.pdf
- ^ a b c d e "BALL, Prof. Keith Martin". Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press.(subscription required)
- ^ a b Keith Martin Ball at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b "Professor Keith Ball FRS". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2014-02-20.
- ^ Keith Martin Ball's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
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|doi=10.1090/S0894-0347-04-00459-Xinstead. - ^ Keith Martin Ball publications indexed by Microsoft Academic
- ^ Ball, Keith Martin (1986). Isometric problems in lp̲ and sections of convex sets (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge.
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