Trevor Wooley

Trevor D. Wooley
Trevor D. Wooley
Education
  • Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (BA, MA)
  • Imperial College London (PhD)
Known forWaring's problem
Awards
  • Berwick Prize (1993)
  • Salem Prize (1998)
  • Fellow of the Royal Society (2007)
  • Fröhlich Prize (2012)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematician
Institutions
  • University of Michigan
  • University of Bristol
  • Purdue University
Thesis On Simultaneous Additive Equations and Waring's Problem  (1990)
Doctoral advisor
Bob Vaughan
Doctoral students
Thomas Bloom

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.

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