Vicky Neale | |
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Born | March 1984 [2] |
Died | (aged 39) |
Citizenship | United Kingdom |
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Thesis | Bracket quadratics as asymptotic bases for the natural numbers (2011) |
Doctoral advisor | Ben Green |
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Victoria Ruth Neale (March 1984 – 3 May 2023) [2] was a British mathematician and writer. She was Whitehead Lecturer at Oxford's Mathematical Institute and Supernumerary Fellow at Balliol College. [3] [4] Her research specialty was number theory. The author of the 2017 book Closing the Gap: The Quest to Understand Prime Numbers, [5] [6] she was interviewed on several BBC radio programs as a mathematics expert. [7] [8] In addition, she wrote for The Conversation and The Guardian. [9] [10] Her other educational and outreach activities included lecturing at the PROMYS Europe high-school program [11] and helping to organize the European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad. [12]
Neale was born in 1984. [13] She obtained her PhD in 2011 from the University of Cambridge. Her thesis work, supervised by Ben Joseph Green, concerned Waring's problem. [3] [1] She then taught at Cambridge while being Director of Studies in mathematics at Murray Edwards College, [12] [14] before moving to Oxford in the summer of 2014. [15]
Neale died on 3 May 2023, at the age of 39. [16] She had been diagnosed with a rare type of cancer in 2021. [17]
Vicky Neale | |
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Born | March 1984 [2] |
Died | (aged 39) |
Citizenship | United Kingdom |
Alma mater |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | |
Institutions | |
Thesis | Bracket quadratics as asymptotic bases for the natural numbers (2011) |
Doctoral advisor | Ben Green |
Website |
people |
Victoria Ruth Neale (March 1984 – 3 May 2023) [2] was a British mathematician and writer. She was Whitehead Lecturer at Oxford's Mathematical Institute and Supernumerary Fellow at Balliol College. [3] [4] Her research specialty was number theory. The author of the 2017 book Closing the Gap: The Quest to Understand Prime Numbers, [5] [6] she was interviewed on several BBC radio programs as a mathematics expert. [7] [8] In addition, she wrote for The Conversation and The Guardian. [9] [10] Her other educational and outreach activities included lecturing at the PROMYS Europe high-school program [11] and helping to organize the European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad. [12]
Neale was born in 1984. [13] She obtained her PhD in 2011 from the University of Cambridge. Her thesis work, supervised by Ben Joseph Green, concerned Waring's problem. [3] [1] She then taught at Cambridge while being Director of Studies in mathematics at Murray Edwards College, [12] [14] before moving to Oxford in the summer of 2014. [15]
Neale died on 3 May 2023, at the age of 39. [16] She had been diagnosed with a rare type of cancer in 2021. [17]