Imre Leader
Imre Bennett Leader (born 30 October 1963) is a professor of pure mathematics at Cambridge University and a professional Othello player.
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| Born | 30 October 1963 |
| Alma mater | Cambridge University |
| Awards | Whitehead Prize (1999) |
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| Fields | Combinatorics |
| Thesis | Discrete Isoperimetric Inequalities and Other Combinatorial Results (1989) |
| Doctoral advisor | Béla Bollobás |
As a child, he was a pupil at the private St Paul's School and won a silver medal on the British team at the 1981 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) for pre-undergraduates.[1]
Between 1983 and 2019 he was 15 times the British champion at the Othello boardgame. In 1983 he came second in the world individual championship, and in 1988 he played on the British team that won the world team championship.[2] In 2019 he won the European championship, beating Matthias Berg in the final in Berlin.[3]
In mathematics he gained a PhD in 1989 for work on combinatorics, supervised by Béla Bollobás.[4]
In 2000 he became a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.[5]
References
- Imre Leader's results at International Mathematical Olympiad
- "World Othello Championships". World Othello Federation. Archived from the original on 5 October 2011.
- Tournament Report EGP 2019
- Imre Leader at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- "Master and Fellows". Trinity College, Cambridge.