E. Brian Davies
British mathematician · United Kingdom · On the map · Academics · Lived 1944 to 2025 · aged 80
Edward Brian Davies was a British mathematician who was professor of Mathematics, King's College London (1981-2010), and was the author of the popular science book Science in the Looking Glass: What do Scientists Really Know. In 2010, he was awarded a Gauss Lecture by the German Mathematical Society.
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2025Died2 June 20252011Fellow of the Learned Society of WalesAwardPólya PrizeAward2010Gauss LectureshipAward1998Senior Berwick PrizeAward1944Born13 June 1944
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The same award as E. Brian Davies
David WilliamsBoth received Pólya Prize
Matthias KreckBoth received Gauss LectureshipJohn DaugmanBoth received Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its ApplicationsChristopher HooleyBoth received Senior Berwick Prize
Angus MacintyreBoth received Pólya Prize
Wolfgang DahmenBoth received Gauss Lectureship