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Professor John Henry Coates, F.R.S. (born January 26, 1945) is a mathematician who holds (since 1986) the position of Sadleirian Professor (of pure mathematics) at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.Coates was born in New South Wales, Australia, and studied at the Australian National University from which he gained a B.Sc. degree. He then moved to France, doing further study at the École Normale Superieure in Paris, before moving again to England. There he did postgraduate research at the University of Cambridge, his doctoral dissertation being on p-adicWith a lower-case and preferably italicized p. The p adic number systems were first described by Kurt Hensel in 1897. For each prime p the p adic number system extends the ordinary arithmetic of the rational numbers in a way different from the extension o analogues of Baker's method .
In 1969For other uses, see Number 1969. For the movie, see 1969 (movie). Events January January 1 Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch purchases the largest selling British Sunday newspaper The News Of The World January 5 The Derry Riots leave over 100 people i, Coates was appointed assistant professor of mathematics at Harvard UniversityHarvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. It was founded on September 8, 1636 by a vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, making it the oldest post-secondary s in the United StatesThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in, before moving again in 19721972 is a leap year starting on Saturday (click link for calendar). Events January events January 2 the Pierre Hotel Heist Six men rob the safety deposit boxes of the Pierre Hotel in New York City. Loot is at least $4 million January 5 President of the Un to Stanford UniversityFor other meanings of Stanford see Stanford (disambiguation). Stanford University is a privately funded university in Stanford, California. It is located approximately 35 miles southeast of San Francisco, in an unincorporated part of Santa Clara County ad where he became an associate professor.
In 1975Events January January 1 Watergate scandal: John N. Mitchell, H. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up and are sentenced to 30 months to 8 years in jail on February 21 January 5 The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, i, he returned to England where he was made a fellowA fellow in its broadest sense is someone who is an equal or a comrade. When describing the term in relation to colleges the term refers to an incorporated (not in its legal sense) member of such a body of people. As a consequence, in the language of Brit of Emmanuel College, and took up a lectureship. Here he taught Andrew Wiles, the mathematician who went on to find a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem - in which Coates's work on elliptic curves, Iwasawa theory, and p-adic L-functions helped greatly.
In 1977, Coates moved back to Australia, becoming a professor at the Australian National University, where he had been an undergraduate. The following year, he moved back to France, taking up a professorship at the University of Paris XI at Orsay . In 1985, he returned to the École Normale Superieure, this time as professor and director of mathematics.
He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1985, and was President of the London Mathematical Society from 1988 to 1990. The latter organisation awarded him the Senior Whitehead Prize in 1997, for "his fundamental research in number theory and for his many contributions to mathematical life both in the UK and internationally".
He now works in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics (DPMMS) of the University of Cambridge, where he specialises in number theory, arithmetical algebraic geometry , and Iwasawa theory.
