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Timothy Gowers


Born
in Wiltshire, The United Kingdom
November 20, 1963

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Mathematics


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Creating a database of motivated proofs

It’s been over three years since my last post on this blog and I have sometimes been asked, understandably, whether the project I announced in my previous post was actually happening. The answer is yes — the grant I received from the Astera Institute has funded several PhD students and a couple of postdocs, and we have been busy. In my previous post I suggested that I would be open to remote colla

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“It is a remarkable phenomenon that children can learn to speak without ever being consciously aware of the sophisticated grammar they are using.”
― Timothy Gowers, The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
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“Can we have genuine knowledge of space without ever leaving our armchairs?”
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“Roses belong to the set R”
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