Alex Scott | |
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| Born | Alexander David Scott |
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| Discipline | Mathematics |
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Alexander David Scott (born 1967) is a British mathematician,currently Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Dominic Welsh Tutor in Mathematics at Merton College,Oxford. [1]
As a sixteen year old schoolboy,Scott wrote the role-playing game Maelstrom for Puffin Books. [2] He took his first degree at Trinity College,Cambridge,gaining first class honours.
From 1993 to 1997,Scott was a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College,Cambridge,where he graduated PhD in 1995. [3] His dissertation,titled "Unavoidable Induced Subgraphs",was supervised by Béla Bollobás. [4] From 1996 to 2001 he was Lecturer in Mathematics at University College,London,then Reader there from 2001 to 2005. In 1997 he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Memphis. In 2005 he was elected as a fellow and appointed as Dominic Welsh Tutor in Mathematics at Merton College,Oxford,then in 2006 became Professor of Mathematics in the University of Oxford. [3] [1]