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David Preiss

David Preiss

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David Preiss FRS (born 21 January 1947) is a Czech and British mathematician, specializing in mathematical analysis. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of Warwick[1]

Preiss is a recipient of the Ostrowski Prize (2011) and the winner of the 2008 London Mathematical Society Pólya Prize[2] for his 1987 result on Geometry of Measures, where he solved the remaining problem in the geometric theoretic structure of sets and measures in Euclidean space.[3] He was an invited speaker at the ICM 1990 in Kyoto. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society (2004) and a Foreign Fellow of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic (2003).

He is associate editor of the mathematical journal Real Analysis Exchange.[4]

Publications

  • Erdős, Paul; Preiss, David (1976). "Decomposition of Spheres in Hilbert Spaces". Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae. 017 (4): 791–795.
  • Preiss, David (1987). "Geometry of measures in R^n: Distribution, rectifiability, and densities". The Annals of Mathematics. 125 (3): 537–643. doi:10.2307/1971410. hdl:10338.dmlcz/133417. JSTOR 1971410.

References

  1. [1]
    Mathematics Staff and Postgraduates, University of Warwick Institute of Mathematics. Revised 2 March 2012. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  2. [2]
    "List of LMS prize winners". London Mathematical Society. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  3. [3]
    London Mathematical Society Prizes 2008, London Mathematical Society, Media release, 4 July 2008. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  4. [4]
    Editorial Board Archived 6 September 2019 at the Wayback Machine, Real Analysis Exchange. Retrieved 26 October 2015.



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