Imre Leader

Imre Leader ( born October 30, 1963) is a British mathematician who deals with combinatorics.

Leader attended St. Paul's School in London. In 1981, he won as a member of the British team silver medal at the Mathematical Olympiad. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he received his doctorate in 1989 with Bela Bollobás (Discrete Inequalities Isperimetric and other combinatorial results). There he is now Professor of Mathematics since 2000 and a Fellow of Trinity College.

He has Hungarian roots and is the godson of Imre Lakatos. By William Timothy Gowers and June Barrow- Green, he was one of the editors of the Princeton Companion to Mathematics ( Princeton University Press 2008).

In 1999 he was awarded the Whitehead Prize.

He is a multiple British champion Othello game (for example, 2002, 2006, 2010), in the British rankings, he was in 2012 at No. 2, was used in the 1983 World Championship runner-up and was part of the British team that won the World Cup in 1988.