Vicky Neale Explained

Vicky Neale
Birth Name:Victoria Ruth Neale
Birth Place:Worcester, England, UK
Death Place:Oxford, England, UK
Citizenship:United Kingdom
Doctoral Advisor:Ben Green
Thesis Title:Bracket quadratics as asymptotic bases for the natural numbers
Thesis Year:2011

Victoria Ruth Neale (March 1984 – 3 May 2023) was a British mathematician and writer. She was Whitehead Lecturer at Oxford's Mathematical Institute and Supernumerary Fellow at Balliol College.[1] [2] Her research specialty was number theory. The author of the 2017 book ,[3] [4] she was interviewed on several BBC radio programs as a mathematics expert.[5] [6] In addition, she wrote for The Conversation and The Guardian.[7] [8] Her other educational and outreach activities included lecturing at the PROMYS Europe high-school program[9] and helping to organize the European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad.[10]

Neale was born in 1984.[11] She obtained her PhD in 2011 from the University of Cambridge. Her thesis work, supervised by Ben Joseph Green, concerned Waring's problem.[1] She then taught at Cambridge while being Director of Studies in mathematics at Murray Edwards College,[10] [12] before moving to Oxford in the summer of 2014.[13]

Neale died on 3 May 2023, at the age of 39.[14] She had been diagnosed with a rare type of cancer in 2021.[15]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Homepage. Neale. Vicky. 2018-08-03. Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford. en. 2018-08-07.
  2. Web site: Speakers and Panellists - ACME. Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education. 2018-08-07.
    Web site: BCME 9 Plenary Speakers . . 2018 . 2018-08-10.
  3. Book: Neale, Vicky . Closing the Gap: The Quest to Understand Prime Numbers . . 9780198788287 . 1030559953. 2017 .
  4. Reviews of Closing the Gap include the following:
  5. Among her appearances are the following:
  6. She is also quoted as a mathematics expert in, for example,
  7. News: Mathematics is beautiful (no, really). Neale. Vicky. 2017-02-17. The Conversation. 2018-08-07. en.
  8. Web site: Solving for Xmas: how to make mathematical Christmas cards. Neale. Vicky. 2015-11-26. The Guardian. en. 2018-08-07.
  9. Web site: Annual Report 2016. 2017-06-26. Clay Mathematics Institute. 2018-08-07.
  10. Web site: Principal Faculty PROMYS-Europe: Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists. promys-europe.org. en. 2018-08-07.
  11. https://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/news/2023/may/vicky-neale-1984-2023 Vicky Neale 1984–2023
  12. Web site: Introduction to Cambridge IA Analysis I 2014 . Gowers . Timothy . Timothy Gowers . Gowers' Weblog . 2014-01-11 . 2018-08-10.
  13. News: Floreat Domus 2015 . Balliol College . Balliol Maths: a plurality of women . 2018-08-10.
  14. Web site: 2023-05-04 . Vicky Neale Mathematical Institute . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230504171021/https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/64230 . 2023-05-04 . 2023-05-04 . Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.
  15. https://www.lms.ac.uk/node/2116 Dr Vicky Neale (1984-2023)

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