David Preiss FRS (born 21 January 1947) is a Czech and British mathematician, specializing in

mathematical analysis Analysis is the branch of mathematics dealing with continuous functions, limit (mathematics), limits, and related theories, such as Derivative, differentiation, Integral, integration, measure (mathematics), measure, infinite sequences, series ( ...

. He is a

professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an Academy, academic rank at university, universities and other tertiary education, post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin ...

mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...

at the

University of Warwick The University of Warwick ( ; abbreviated as ''Warw.'' in post-nominal letters) is a public research university on the outskirts of Coventry between the West Midlands and Warwickshire, England. The university was founded in 1965 as part of ...

Preiss is a recipient of the

Ostrowski Prize The Ostrowski Prize is a mathematics award given biennially for outstanding research accomplishments in mathematics and numerical analysis. Alexander Ostrowski, a longtime professor at the University of Basel, left his estate to the Ostrowski Found ...

(2011) and the winner of the 2008

London Mathematical Society The London Mathematical Society (LMS) is one of the United Kingdom's Learned society, learned societies for mathematics (the others being the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), the Edinburgh ...

Pólya Prize 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 Euclidean space is the fundamental space of geometry, intended to represent physical space. Originally, in Euclid's ''Elements'', it was the three-dimensional space of Euclidean geometry, but in modern mathematics there are ''Euclidean spaces ...

. He was an invited speaker at the ICM 1990 in Kyoto. He is a

Fellow of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the Fellows of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural science, natural knowledge, incl ...

(2004) and a Foreign Fellow of the

Learned Society of the Czech Republic The Learned Society of the Czech Republic ("Učená společnost České republiky") is an association of distinguished scholars of the Czech Republic from all scientific disciplines. Its goal is to support free conduct of research and furtherance of ...

(2003). He is associate editor of the mathematical journal '' Real Analysis Exchange''.Editorial Board
, ''Real Analysis Exchange''. Retrieved 26 October 2015.

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External links

David Preiss webpage at University of Warwick
1947 births Living people English mathematicians Academics of the University of Warwick Fellows of the Royal Society Measure theorists Functional analysts {{UK-mathematician-stub