Trevor Wooley

Trevor D. Wooley (born 1964 ) is a British mathematician who deals with analytic number theory.

Wooley studied from 1984 at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, where in 1987 he earned his bachelor 's degree. From 1988 he studied at Imperial College in London, where in 1990 he earned his doctorate at Robert Charles Vaughan ("On Simultaneous Equations and additives Waring 's problem "). From 1991, he was Assistant Professor, 1995 Associate Professor and from 1998 professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Since 2007 he is professor at the University of Bristol, where he is also Associate Director of the Heilbronn Institute of Mathematics Research.

Wooley is particularly concerned with the development of the Hardy - Littlewood circle method and with Vinogradov's method of treatment of exponential sums. He succeeded in attaining major progress in Waringschen problem, which he published some with Vaughan together. He also deals with problems of the environment of the local-global principle of Helmut Hasse.

1993 to 1995 he was a Sloan Fellow, 1993-1998 Packard Fellow and in 1993 he was awarded the Junior Berwick Prize of the London Mathematical Society. In 2007 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Wolfson Research Merit Award he received. In 1998 he received the Salem Prize in 2012 and the Cheerful Award. Wooley was 2002 Invited speaker at the ICM in Beijing ( " Diophantine methods for exponential sums, and exponential sums for diophantine problems" ). 2014 he is Invited speaker at the ICM in Seoul.