Desmond G. Higgins belongs to the mathematical record as a figure whose results outlasted the problems that prompted them.
The record lists Desmond G. Higgins as Professor of Bioinformatics at University College Dublin.
Desmond G. Higgins was born in 1959. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin.
Twentieth-century mathematics became abstract and highly specialised, and its methods reached into physics, economics and computing.
His academic posts were held at University College Dublin.
The recorded fields of work are genomics, bioinformatics and mathematics.
Mathematics is the one discipline whose results, once proved, are never overturned.
Desmond G. Higgins is still working, and the final assessment of the contribution has not been made.
Achievements
- Held posts at University College Dublin
- Fields: genomics, bioinformatics and mathematics
