About

I am a member of the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at Cambridge University and also a fellow of Trinity College. My main mathematical interests are analysis and combinatorics, with a particular focus on the burgeoning area of arithmetic combinatorics (roughly speaking, the study of a cluster of fascinating and interestingly related problems, some of which are about numbers even if they don’t really count as number theory in the sense in which that term is usually understood). I also have an interest in general questions about mathematics, and how it is discovered and transmitted—hence this blog.