Biography:Victor Flynn

Short description: British mathematician

Victor Flynn
Born	Eugene Victor Flynn Washington, D.C., U.S.
Alma mater	University of Otago Trinity College, Cambridge
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Michigan University of Cambridge University of Liverpool University of Oxford
Thesis	Curves of genus 2 (1989)
Doctoral advisor	J. W. S. Cassels
Relatives	James Flynn (father)

Eugene Victor Flynn is an American-born mathematician. He is currently a professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford.

Biography

Flynn was born in Washington, D.C., the son of academic James Flynn who took up a position at the University of Otago. He first studied at the University of Otago, before taking a PhD at Trinity College, Cambridge, supervised by J. W. S. Cassels. He then spent a year as an assistant professor at the University of Michigan, returning to Cambridge as a research fellow at Robinson College. He then moved to the University of Liverpool, including four years as head of the pure mathematics department there. In 2005 he left Liverpool to move to the University of Oxford; he took up a fellowship at New College in October 2005 and was appointed a university professor of mathematics in October 2006.

His fields of specialisation are the arithmetic of elliptic curves and algebraic geometry.

Family

Flynn's father, James Flynn, was primarily involved in the research of intelligence and is noteworthy for his work on the Flynn effect; he died in 2020. Victor Flynn's parents met on a picket line protesting against segregation in the USA. Their daughter Natalie Flynn is a clinical psychologist in Auckland, New Zealand.

External links

• Victor Flynn at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Home page