Biography:Vicky Neale

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Short description: British mathematician and writer
Vicky Neale
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
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ThesisBracket quadratics as asymptotic bases for the natural numbers (2011)
Doctoral advisorBen Green
Websitepeople.maths.ox.ac.uk/neale/

Vicky Neale is a British mathematician and writer. She is Whitehead Lecturer at Oxford's Mathematical Institute and Supernumerary Fellow at Balliol College.[1][2] Her research specialty is number theory. The author of the 2017 book Closing the Gap: The Quest to Understand Prime Numbers,[3][4] she has been interviewed on several BBC radio programs as a mathematics expert.[5][6] In addition, she has written for The Conversation and The Guardian .[7][8] Her other educational and outreach activities include lecturing at the PROMYS Europe high-school program[9] and helping to organize the European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad.[10]

Neale obtained her PhD in 2011 from the University of Cambridge. Her thesis work, supervised by Ben Joseph Green, concerned Waring's problem.[1][11] She then taught at Cambridge while being Director of Studies in mathematics at Murray Edwards College,[10][12] before moving to Oxford in the summer of 2014.[13]

References

  1. Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 Neale, Vicky (2018-08-03). "Homepage" (in en). http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/neale/. 
  2. "Speakers and Panellists - ACME". http://www.acme-uk.org/events/2016-acme-conference/speakers-and-panellists. 
    "BCME 9 Plenary Speakers". 2018. https://www.bcme.org.uk/Plenary-Speakers. 
  3. Neale, Vicky (2017). Closing the Gap: The Quest to Understand Prime Numbers. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198788287. OCLC 1030559953. 
  4. Reviews of Closing the Gap include the following:
  5. Among her appearances are the following:
  6. She is also quoted as a mathematics expert in, for example,
  7. Neale, Vicky (2017-02-17). "Mathematics is beautiful (no, really)" (in en). The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/mathematics-is-beautiful-no-really-72921. 
  8. Neale, Vicky (2015-11-26). "Solving for Xmas: how to make mathematical Christmas cards" (in en). https://www.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numberland/2015/nov/26/solving-for-xmas-how-to-make-mathematical-christmas-cards. 
  9. "Annual Report 2016". 2017-06-26. https://www.claymath.org/library/annual_report/ar2016.pdf. 
  10. Jump up to: 10.0 10.1 "Principal Faculty | PROMYS-Europe: Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists" (in en). https://promys-europe.org/about-promys-europe/faculty. 
  11. Vicky Neale at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  12. Gowers, Timothy (2014-01-11). "Introduction to Cambridge IA Analysis I 2014". https://gowers.wordpress.com/2014/01/11/introduction-to-cambridge-ia-analysis-i-2014/. 
  13. "Balliol Maths: a plurality of women". Floreat Domus 2015 (Balliol College). https://issuu.com/balliol/docs/floreat_domus_2015/33.