Graham Brightwell

Graham Brightwell
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Known for	Discrete Mathematics
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	London School of Economics
Doctoral advisor	Béla Bollobás

Graham Brightwell is a British mathematician working in the field of discrete mathematics. ^{[1] [2]}

A professor at the London School of Economics, he has published nearly 100 papers in pure mathematics, including over a dozen with Béla Bollobás. His research interests include random combinatorial structures; partially ordered sets; algorithms; random graphs; discrete mathematics and graph theory. ^{[3] [4]} (Bollobás supervised his PhD on "Linear Extensions of Partially Ordered Sets" at Cambridge, awarded 1988. ^[5] )

Othello

Brightwell started playing Othello in 1985, after finding himself sharing an apartment with fellow mathematician and Othello player Imre Leader. ^[6] He has finished three times as runner-up in the World Othello Championship and is a 5-time British Champion, and has served as chairman of the British Othello Federation and as editor of the British Othello Newsletter. ^{[7] [8]} He created the Brightwell Quotient, often used in Othello tournaments, to resolve ties.^{[ citation needed ]}

References

1. Graham Brightwell author profile page at the ACM Digital Library
2. "University of London – LSE page". London School of Economics. Archived from the original on August 7, 2013. Retrieved November 12, 2011.
3. Graham Brightwell at DBLP Bibliography Server
4. "recent Springer Publications". Springer Science+Business Media . Retrieved November 12, 2011.^{[ dead link ‍]}
5. Graham Brightwell at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
6. Shifman, Leonid (c. 2000), Interview with Graham Brightwell , retrieved October 29, 2013.
7. "World Othello Championships". World Othello Federation. Archived from the original on October 5, 2011. Retrieved November 12, 2011.
8. "British Othello Federation". British Othello Federation. Archived from the original on April 25, 2012. Retrieved November 12, 2011.