Trevor Dion Wooley FRS (born 17 September 1964) is a British mathematician and currently 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.

Trevor D. Wooley
Trevor D. Wooley
Born (1964-09-17) 17 September 1964 (age 60)
United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
Alma materImperial College London
University of Cambridge
Known forAnalytic number theory
Diophantine equations
Hardy–Littlewood circle method
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society
Salem Prize
Berwick Prize (1993)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematician
InstitutionsPurdue University
Doctoral advisorRobert Charles Vaughan

He received his bachelor's degree in 1987 from the University of Cambridge and his PhD, supervised by Robert Charles Vaughan, in 1990 from the University of London.[1] In 2007, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.

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Selected publications

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  • Wooley, Trevor D. (1992). "Large Improvements in Waring's Problem". The Annals of Mathematics. 135 (1). JSTOR: 131–164. doi:10.2307/2946566. ISSN 0003-486X. JSTOR 2946566.
  • Wooley, Trevor D. (1994). "Quasi-diagonal behaviour in certain mean value theorems of additive number theory". Journal of the American Mathematical Society. 7 (1). American Mathematical Society (AMS): 221–245. doi:10.1090/s0894-0347-1994-1224595-9. ISSN 0894-0347.
  • Wooley, Trevor D. (1995). "Breaking classical convexity in Waring's problem: Sums of cubes and quasi-diagonal behaviour". Inventiones Mathematicae. 122 (1). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 421–451. Bibcode:1995InMat.122..421W. doi:10.1007/bf01231451. hdl:2027.42/46588. ISSN 0020-9910.
  • Wooley, Trevor (1 May 2012). "Vinogradov's mean value theorem via efficient congruencing". Annals of Mathematics. 175 (3). Annals of Mathematics: 1575–1627. arXiv:1101.0574. doi:10.4007/annals.2012.175.3.12. ISSN 0003-486X. S2CID 13286053.

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