About David Preiss
Born 1947. David Preiss is a British and Czech mathematician and university teacher.
David Preiss FRS (born 21 January 1947) is a Czech and British mathematician, specializing in mathematical analysis. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of Warwick
Preiss is a recipient of the Ostrowski Prize (2011) and the winner of the 2008 London Mathematical Society Pólya Prize for his 1987 result on Geometry of Measures, where he solved the remaining problem in the geometric theoretic structure of sets and measures in Euclidean space. He was an invited speaker at the ICM 1990 in Kyoto. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society (2004) and a Foreign Fellow of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic (2003).
He is associate editor of the mathematical journal Real Analysis Exchange.
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Who is David Preiss?
Czech-born British mathematician
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David Preiss was born on 21 January 1947 in Prague.
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David Preiss is a mathematician and university teacher.
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David Preiss is British and Czech.
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