Trevor Wooley

Trevor Dion Wooley is a British mathematician, the Andris A. Zoltners Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Purdue University. His fields of interest include analytic number theory, Diophantine equations and Diophantine problems, harmonic analysis, the Hardy-Littlewood circle method, and the theory and applications of exponential sums. He has made significant breakthroughs on Waring's problem, for which he was awarded the Salem Prize in 1998.

Education and career Wooley read mathematics in Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, receiving a bachelor's degree from the University of Cambridge in 1987 with first class honours, and a master's degree in 1991. Meanwhile, he completed his PhD, supervised by Bob Vaughan, in 1990 from Imperial College London.

After postdoctoral research in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, he became an assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan in 1991. He was promoted to associate professor in 1995, and full professor in 1998; he chaired the mathematics department from 2002 to 2005. He was awarded the 1998 Salem Prize "for his work in additive number theory, in particular on problems of Waring's type". He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), held in Beijing in 2002, and after receiving the 2012 Fröhlich Prize he spoke again at the 2014 ICM in Seoul. and as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012.

Selected publications