Graham Brightwell

Graham Brightwell is a British mathematician working in the field of discrete mathematics.[1][2]

Graham Brightwell
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Known forDiscrete Mathematics
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsLondon School of Economics
Doctoral advisorBéla Bollobás

He was a research student at the University of Cambridge and obtained his PhD in 1988 writing on "Linear Extensions of Partially Ordered Sets" under the supervision of Béla Bollobás.[3]

He has published nearly 100 papers in pure mathematics, including over a dozen with Béla Bollobás. His research interests include random combinatorial structures; partially ordered sets; algorithms; random graphs; discrete mathematics and graph theory.[4][5]

Professor Brightwell started playing Othello in 1985, after finding himself sharing an apartment with Imre Leader.[6] He has finished 3 times as runner-up in the World Othello Championship and is a 5-time British Champion, and has served as chairman of the British Othello Federation and as editor of the British Othello Newsletter.[7][8]

He is currently a Professor at the London School of Economics.

References
  1. Graham Brightwell author profile page at the ACM Digital Library
  2. "University of London – LSE page". London School of Economics. Retrieved November 12, 2011.
  3. Graham Brightwell at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Graham Brightwell at DBLP Bibliography Server
  5. "recent Springer Publications". Springer Science+Business Media. Retrieved November 12, 2011.
  6. Shifman, Leonid (c. 2000), Interview with Graham Brightwell, retrieved October 29, 2013.
  7. "World Othello Championships". World Othello Federation. Archived from the original on October 5, 2011. Retrieved November 12, 2011.
  8. "British Othello Federation". British Othello Federation. Retrieved November 12, 2011.
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