Victor Flynn
Eugene Victor Flynn (born 8 August 1962) is a mathematician, and currently a professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford.
Victor Flynn | |
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| Born | Eugene Victor Flynn 8 August 1962 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Otago Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Curves of genus 2 (1989) |
| Doctoral advisor | J. W. S. Cassels |
| Relatives | James Flynn (father) |
Biography
Flynn was born in Washington, D.C. on 8 August 1962,[1] the son of academic James Flynn who took up a position at the University of Otago the following year. In 1980, Victor Flynn became a naturalised New Zealand citizen.[1] He first studied at the University of Otago, before taking a PhD at Trinity College, Cambridge, supervised by J. W. S. Cassels. He then spent a year as an assistant professor at the University of Michigan, returning to Cambridge as a research fellow at Robinson College. He then moved to the University of Liverpool, including four years as head of the pure mathematics division there. In 2005 he left Liverpool to move to the University of Oxford; he took up a fellowship at New College in October 2005 and was appointed a university professor of mathematics in October 2006.
His fields of specialisation are the arithmetic of elliptic curves and algebraic geometry.[2]
Family
Flynn's father, James Flynn, was primarily involved in the research of intelligence and is noteworthy for his work on the Flynn effect; he died in 2020.[3] His sister, Natalie Flynn, is a clinical psychologist in Auckland, New Zealand.
References
- "New Zealand, naturalisations, 1843–1981". Ancestry.com Operations. 2010. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
- "Professor Victor Flynn". people.maths.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
- Hudson, Daisy (12 December 2020). "Otago academic 'giant' Jim Flynn dies". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
