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British mathematician and writer (1984–2023)
Victoria Ruth Neale (March 1984 – 3 May 2023)
[2] was a British mathematician and writer. She was Whitehead Lecturer at
Oxford 's
Mathematical Institute and Supernumerary Fellow at
Balliol College .
[3]
[4] Her research specialty was
number theory . The author of the 2017 book
Closing the Gap: The Quest to Understand Prime Numbers ,
[5]
[6] she was interviewed on several
BBC radio programs as a mathematics expert.
[7]
[8] In addition, she wrote for
The Conversation and
The Guardian .
[9]
[10] Her other educational and outreach activities included lecturing at the PROMYS Europe high-school program
[11] and helping to organize the
European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad .
[12]
Neale was born in 1984.
[13] She obtained her PhD in 2011 from the
University of Cambridge . Her thesis work, supervised by
Ben Joseph Green , concerned
Waring's problem .
[3]
[1] She then taught at Cambridge while being Director of Studies in mathematics at
Murray Edwards College ,
[12]
[14] before moving to Oxford in the summer of 2014.
[15]
Neale died on 3 May 2023, at the age of 39.
[16] She had been diagnosed with a rare type of cancer in 2021.
[17]
References
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a
b
Vicky Neale at the
Mathematics Genealogy Project
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a
b
c
d
e O'Connor, John J.;
Robertson, Edmund F. ,
"Vicky Neale" ,
MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive ,
University of St Andrews
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a
b Neale, Vicky (3 August 2018).
"Homepage" .
Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford . Retrieved 7 August 2018 .
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"Speakers and Panellists - ACME" .
Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education . Retrieved 7 August 2018 .
"BCME 9 Plenary Speakers" .
British Congress of Mathematics Education . 2018. Retrieved 10 August 2018 .
^ Neale, Vicky (2017). Closing the Gap: The Quest to Understand Prime Numbers .
Oxford University Press .
ISBN
9780198788287 .
OCLC
1030559953 .
^ Reviews of Closing the Gap include the following:
^ Among her appearances are the following:
^ She is also quoted as a mathematics expert in, for example,
^ Neale, Vicky (17 February 2017).
"Mathematics is beautiful (no, really)" .
The Conversation . Retrieved 7 August 2018 .
^ Neale, Vicky (26 November 2015).
"Solving for Xmas: how to make mathematical Christmas cards" .
The Guardian . Retrieved 7 August 2018 .
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"Annual Report 2016" (PDF) .
Clay Mathematics Institute . 26 June 2017. Retrieved 7 August 2018 .
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a
b
"Principal Faculty | PROMYS-Europe: Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists" . promys-europe.org . Retrieved 7 August 2018 .
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Vicky Neale 1984–2023 ,
Balliol College
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Gowers, Timothy (11 January 2014).
"Introduction to Cambridge IA Analysis I 2014" . Gowers' Weblog . Retrieved 10 August 2018 .
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"Balliol Maths: a plurality of women" . Floreat Domus 2015 . Balliol College. Retrieved 10 August 2018 .
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"Vicky Neale | Mathematical Institute" . Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford . 4 May 2023.
Archived from the original on 4 May 2023. Retrieved 4 May 2023 .
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Dr Vicky Neale (1984-2023) ,
London Mathematical Society
International National Academics Other