Keith Martin Ball
Keith Martin Ball is a mathematician and professor at the University of Warwick. He was scientific director of the International Centre for [Mathematical Sciences|International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS)] from 2010 to 2014.
Education
Ball was educated at Berkhamsted School and Trinity College, Cambridge where he studied the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos and was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics in 1982 and a PhD in 1987 for research supervised by Béla Bollobás.Research
Keith Ball's research is in the fields of functional analysis, high-dimensional and discrete geometry and information theory. He is the author of Strange Curves, Counting Rabbits, & Other Mathematical Explorations.Awards and honours
Ball was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012 and a List of Fellows of the [Royal Society elected in 2013|Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2013]. His Royal Society citation readsIn 2023, he was elected a member of the Academia Europaea.