Biography:David Preiss

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David Preiss FRS (born 21 January 1947) is a Czech and British mathematician, specializing in mathematical analysis. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of Warwick[1]

Preiss is a recipient of the Ostrowski Prize (2011) and the winner of the 2008 London Mathematical Society Pólya Prize[2] for his 1987 result on Geometry of Measures, where he solved the remaining problem in the geometric theoretic structure of sets and measures in Euclidean space.[3] He was an invited speaker at the ICM 1990 in Kyoto.[4] He is a Fellow of the Royal Society (2004)[5] and a Foreign Fellow of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic (2003).[6]

He is associate editor of the mathematical journal Real Analysis Exchange.[7]

Publications

  • Erdős, Paul; Preiss, David (1976). "Decomposition of Spheres in Hilbert Spaces". Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae 017 (4): 791–795. 
  • Preiss, David (1987). "Geometry of measures in R^n: Distribution, rectifiability, and densities". The Annals of Mathematics 125 (3): 537–643. doi:10.2307/1971410. 

References

  1. Mathematics Staff and Postgraduates, University of Warwick Institute of Mathematics. Revised 2 March 2012. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  2. "List of LMS prize winners". London Mathematical Society. http://www.lms.ac.uk/content/list-lms-prize-winners. Retrieved 26 October 2015. 
  3. London Mathematical Society Prizes 2008, London Mathematical Society, Media release, 4 July 2008. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  4. "ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers". International Mathematical Union. https://www.mathunion.org/icm-plenary-and-invited-speakers?combine=preiss. 
  5. "Professor David Preiss FRS". Fellows directory. Royal Society. https://royalsociety.org/people/david-preiss-12118/. 
  6. "Preiss David" (in Czech). Learned Society of the Czech Republic. https://www.learned.cz/cz/clenove-ucene-spolecnosti/zahranicni-clenove-ucene-spolecnosti/preiss-david.html. 
  7. Editorial Board , Real Analysis Exchange. Retrieved 26 October 2015.