Geoffrey Grimmett is remembered in mathematics for work the next generation could build on.
The record lists Geoffrey Grimmett as Professor of Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge and Master, Downing College, Cambridge.
Geoffrey Grimmett was born at Birmingham in 1950. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom. He studied at Merton College and King Edward's School.
Twentieth-century mathematics became abstract and highly specialised, and its methods reached into physics, economics and computing.
The recorded fields of work are probability theory.
Mathematics accumulates without discarding: a proof from two thousand years ago is still a proof.
The honours record reads: Rollo Davidson Prize (1989) and Fellow of the Royal Society (2014).
That the work was done from United Kingdom matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Achievements
- Rollo Davidson Prize — 1989
- Fellow of the Royal Society — 2014
- Fields: probability theory
