1998 Fields Medal (2)
Reason for Award
William Timothy Gowers has provided important contributions tofunctional analysis, making extensive use of methods fromcombination theory. These two fields apparently have little to do with each other, and a significant achievement of Gowers has been to combine these fruitfully.
Laureates
William Timothy Gowers,
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Other works in the same year
- for his work on the introduction of vertex algebras, the proof of the Moonshine conjecture and for his discovery of a new class of automorphic infinite products
- contributions to four problems of geometry
- He has made important contributions to various branches of the theory ofdynamical systems, such as the algorithmic study of polynomial equations, the study of the distribution of the points of a lattice of aLie group,hyperbolic geometry,holomorphic dynamicsand the renormalization of maps of the interval.