Biography:Martin T. Barlow
Martin Thomas Barlow FRS FRSC (born 16 June 1953 in London) is a British mathematician who is professor of mathematics at the University of British Columbia in Canada since 1992.[1]
History
Barlow is the son of Andrew Dalmahoy Barlow (1916–2006) and his wife Yvonne.[2] He is thus the grandson of Alan Barlow, and his wife Nora (née Darwin), through whom he is a great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin. He is the nephew of Horace Barlow (also FRS and Fellow of Trinity). In 1994 he married Colleen McLaughlin.[2]
He was educated Sussex House School, St Paul's School, London, Trinity College, Cambridge (BA 1975, Diploma 1976, ScD 1993); University College of Swansea (PhD).[1][2]
Barlow worked as a research fellow of the University of Liverpool 1978–1980. He was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1979–1992. He worked in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge 1981–1985 and was a Royal Society University Research Fellow 1985–1992.[1]
Work
His mathematical interests include probability, Brownian motion and fractal sets.
His doctoral students include Steven N. Evans.[3]
Recognition
He was awarded the Rollo Davidson Prize in 1984.[1][4] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1998.[1] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2005.[5] In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[6] In 2018 the Canadian Mathematical Society listed him in their inaugural class of fellows.[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Prof Martin Barlow Authorised Biography – Debrett's People of Today, Prof Martin Barlow Profile". http://www.debretts.co.uk/people/biographies/browse/b/25222/Martin%20Thomas+BARLOW.aspx.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Debrett's People of Today. 2011. p. 87. http://www.exacteditions.com/exact/browse/455/1210/7772/3/123.
- ↑ Martin Thomas Barlow at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ "Rollo Davidson Awards 1976 - 2010". Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge. http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/Rollo/award.html. Retrieved 2011-05-26.
- ↑ "Fellows of the Royal Society". Royal Society. http://royalsociety.org/about-us/fellowship/fellows/. Retrieved 2011-05-26.
- ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2012-11-03.
- ↑ Canadian Mathematical Society Inaugural Class of Fellows, Canadian Mathematical Society, 7 December 2018, https://cms.math.ca/MediaReleases/2018/Fellows
- 'BARLOW, Prof. Martin Thomas', Who's Who 2011, A & C Black, 2011; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2010 ; online edn, Oct 2010 accessed 21 May 2011
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