Jonathan Partington

Jonathan Partington
Born (1955-02-04) February 4, 1955
Norwich, United Kingdom
Nationality British
Fields Mathematics
Institutions University of Leeds
Alma mater University of Cambridge
Doctoral advisor Béla Bollobás
Known for Functional analysis, Operator Theory, Control theory

Jonathan R. Partington (born February 4, 1955) is an English mathematician who is Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Leeds.

Education

Professor Partington was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and Trinity College, University of Cambridge, where he completed his PhD thesis entitled "Numerical ranges and the Geometry of Banach Spaces" under the supervision of Béla Bollobás.

Career

Partington was formerly editor of the Journal of the London Mathematical Society and is now Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Leeds. He works in the area of functional analysis, sometimes applied to control theory, and is the author of several books in this area.

Partington's extra-mathematical activities include the invention of the March March march, an annual walk starting at March, Cambridgeshire. He is also known as a writer or co-writer of some of the earliest British text-based computer games, including Acheton, Hamil, Murdac, Avon, Fyleet, Crobe, Sangraal, and SpySnatcher, which started life on the Phoenix computer system at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.

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