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Robin James Wilson (born 5 December 1943) is an English mathematician. He is an emeritus professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Open University, having previously been Head of the Pure Mathematics Department and Dean of the Faculty. He was a stipendiary lecturer at Pembroke College, Oxford and, from 2004 to 2008, Gresham Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London. On occasion, he teaches at Colorado College in the United States. He is also a long standing fellow of Keble College, Oxford. Professor Wilson is a son of former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and his wife, Mary. Early life and education Wilson was born in 1943 to the politician Harold Wilson, who later became Prime Minister, and his wife the poet Mary Wilson (née Baldwin). He has a younger brother, Giles, who in his 50s gave up a career as a teacher to be a train driver. Wilson attended University College School in Hampstead, North London. He achieved a BA First Class Honours in Mathematics from Balliol College, Oxford, an MA from the University of Pennsylvania, and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania (1965–1968). In a Guardian interview in 2008, Wilson spoke of the fact he grew up known to everyone primarily as a son of the Labour Party leader and Prime Minister Harold Wilson: "I hated the attention and I still dislike being introduced as Harold Wilson's son. I feel uncomfortable talking about it to strangers even now." Mathematics career Wilson's academic interests lie in graph theory, particularly in colouring problems, e.g. the four colour problem, and algebraic properties of graphs. He also researches the history of mathematics, particularly British mathematics and mathematics in the 17th century and the period 1860 to 1940, and the history of graph theory and combinatorics. In 1974, he won the Lester R. Ford Award from the Mathematical Association of America for his expository article An introduction to matroid theory. Due to his collaboration on a 1977 paper with the Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős, Wilson has an Erdős number of 1. In July 2008, he published a study of the mathematical work of Lewis Carroll, the creator of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass — Lewis Carroll in Numberland: His Fantastical Mathematical Logical Life (Allen Lane, 2008. ISBN 978-0-7139-9757-6). From January 1999 to September 2003, Wilson was editor-in-chief of the European Mathematical Society Newsletter. He is past President of the British Society for the History of Mathematics. Other interests He has strong interests in music, including the operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, and is the co-author (with Frederic Lloyd) of Gilbert and Sullivan: The Official D'Oyly Carte Picture History. In 2007, he was a guest on Private Passions, the biographical music discussion programme on BBC Radio 3. Personal life Wilson is married and has twin daughters. Publications Wilson has written or edited about thirty books, including popular books on sudoku and the Four Color Theorem: Oxford's Savilian Professors of Geometry: The First 400 Years (editor), Oxford University Press, 2022: ISBN 978-0-19-886903-0 Number Theory: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2020: ISBN 978-0-19-879809-5 The Turing Guide (with Jack Copeland, Jonathan Bowen, Mark Sprevak, et al.), Oxford University Press, 2017: ISBN 978-0198747826 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0198747833 (paperback) Combinatorics: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2016: ISBN 978-0-19-872349-3 Combinatorics: Ancient & Modern (with John Watkins), Oxford University Press, 2013: ISBN 0-19-965659-2 The Great Mathematicians (with Raymond Flood), Arcturus Publishing Ltd, 2011: ISBN 1-84837-902-1 Lewis Carroll in Numberland: His Fantastical Mathematical Logical Life, Allen Lane, 2008: ISBN 978-0-7139-9757-6 Hidden Word Sudoku, Infinite Ideas Limited 2005: ISBN 1-904902-74-X How to Solve Sudoku, Infinite Ideas Limited 2005: ISBN 1-904902-62-6 Sherlock Holmes in Babylon and Other Tales of Mathematical History (co-edited with Marlow Anderson and Victor J. Katz), The Mathematical Association of America, 2004: ISBN 0-88385-546-1 Mathematics and Music: From Pythagoras to Fractals (co-edited with John Fauvel & Raymond Flood), Oxford University Press, 2003: ISBN 0-19-851187-6 Four Colours Suffice: How the Map Problem Was Solved, Allen Lane (Penguin), 2002: ISBN 0-7139-9670-6 Stamping through Mathematics, Springer, 2001: ISBN 0-387-98949-8 Oxford Figures: 800 Years of the Mathematical Sciences (with John Fauvel & Raymond Flood), Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000: ISBN 0-19-852309-2 Graphs and Applications: An Introductory Approach (with Joan Aldous), Springer, 2000: ISBN 1-85233-259-X Mathematical Conversations: Selections from the Mathematical Intelligencer (with J. Gray), Springer, 2000: ISBN 0-387-98686-3 An Atlas of Graphs (with Ronald Read), Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998: ISBN 0-19-853289-X (paperback edition, 2002: ISBN 0-19-852650-4) Graph Theory, 1736–1936 (with Norman L. Biggs and Keith Lloyd), Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976: ISBN 0-19-853901-0 References External links Robin Wilson's Page at the Open University Robin Wilson's entry in the Faculty of Mathematics and Computing at the Open University Lectures by Robin Wilson at Gresham College Robin Wilson's entry at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Robin Wilson at IMDb. Discover the Robin James popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Robin James books.
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Bowl. Sleep. Repeat.
Jimmy AndersonEver wondered what it's like playing Test Cricket? What really goes on tour and beyond the boundary rope?Here, for the first time, the world of a procricketer is revealed, and the...
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Seven Viking Romances
Penguin Books LtdCombining traditional myth, oral history and reworked European legend to depict an ancient realm of heroism and wonder, the seven tales collected here are among the most fantastica...
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Tales of the Pacific
Jack LondonIf you know London primarily through novels like WHITE FANG, these stories will provide a new perspective. Full of intriguing characters and snippets of pidgin, they also highlight...
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The Border Outlaws
J. W. BuelThe Border Outlaws is an authentic and thrilling history of one of the most noted bandits in the American history, brothersJesse and Frank James, and their partners in crime.This b...
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The Most Dammed Country in the World
Dai QingIn twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.The courageous, unflinching speeches and writings collected in The Most Dammed Country in the W...
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The Happiness Story
Savi SharmaWhat if happiness isn't a distant dream, but a choice within your reach?Is there an effective way to tackle being demotivated by an intimidating world?Are you ready to abandon the ...
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The Castle on Sunset
Shawn LevyThe definitiveand salacioushistory of the iconic hotel that Hollywood stars have called a home away from home for almost a century.“Fascinating, dishy, and glimmering with insight....
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Life Support
Tess GerritsenFrom New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen, a terrifying novel of deadly proportions as an ER doctor tries to determine the cause and cure of a fatal and mysterious viru...
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The Prisoner of Zenda
Anthony HopeRudolph Rassendyll's life is interrupted by his unexpected and personal involvement in the affairs of Ruritania whilst travelling through the town of Zenda. He is shortly on the wa...
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Warriors 3
George R.R. Martin & Gardner DozoisFrom George R. R. Martin's Introduction to Warriors: "People have been telling stories about warriors for as long as they have been telling stories. Since Homer first sang the wrat...
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Nine Inch Nails
Martin HuxleySound, throb, and a long low wail of pure, hard pain... Nine Inch Nails. The world's most disturbing rock band is in effect one man singer and songwriter Trent Reznor. Since steali...
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Witch Baby and Me
Debi GlioriLily is 9. Her sister Daisy is 1. And she's no ordinary baby. Somehow, when she was born, something went rather wrong... and now Daisy is a Witch Baby. Nobody knows this but Lily ...
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The Robin
Stephen MossAcclaimed naturalist and birdwatcher Stephen Moss brings us a year in the life of Britain's favourite bird the robin. In The Robin Moss records a year of observing the rob...
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Jesse James
Frank TriplettThere is no western outlaw more infamous and notorious than Jesse James. A Confederate guerilla during the Civil War, he and his brother, as the leaders of numerous gangs of the Wi...
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The Butler
Wil HaygoodThis mesmerizing companion book to the awardwinning film, The Butler traces the Civil Rights Movement and explores crucial moments of twentieth century American history through the...
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The Chapo Guide to Revolution
Chapo Trap HouseInstant New York Times bestseller “Howard Zinn on acid or some bullsht like that.” Tim Heidecker The creators of the culthit podcast Chapo Trap House deliver a manifesto for everyo...
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The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid
Pat F. GarrettBorn in November 1859 as William H. Bonney, Billy the Kidas he soon became knownstarted his criminal career at the age of twelve by stabbing a man in a bar fight. He then moved on ...
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Life Hacks from the Buddha
Dr Tony FernandoHow to be calm and content in a chaotic world 50 ancient pearls of wisdom anyone can use for a stressfree and happy lifeIn this practical and easytofollow book, clinical psychiatri...
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All Art is Ecological
Timothy MortonIn twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.Provocative and playful, All Art is Ecological explores the strangeness of living in an age of ...
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Ancient Worlds
Richard MilesAcross the Middle East, the Mediterranean and the Nile Delta, aweinspiring, monstrous ruins are scattered across the landscape vast palaces, temples, fortresses, shattered statues...
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The Fast
John OakesWith fasting at an alltime high in popularity, here is the first deep exploration into the surprising history and science behind the practiceessential to many religions and philoso...
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The Art of Winnie-the-Pooh
James CampbellForeword by Minette ShepardThe enchanting story of some of the most beloved characters in English children’s literatureWinniethePooh and his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood, Pig...
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Life and Adventures of Frank and Jesse James
Joseph A. DacusThis story describes the life and adventures of the American's most famous bandits that were a model for hundreds of westerns, books and movies. The book accounts for Frank and...
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Made In Scotland
Billy ConnollyTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Where do you come from? It's one of the most basic human questions of all. But there is another question, which might sound a wee bit similar but is act...
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The Knight Thieves
Jenn BennettPuss in Boots: The Last Wish meets Gail Carson Levine in this charming middle grade fractured fairy tale about an outlaw who teams up with a cursed prince to save the kingdom.Forme...
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Podkin and the Singing Spear
Kieran LarwoodPodkin is now Keeper of the Gifts which is a tremendously important job and just a tiny bit boring. It doesn't help that there are still three gifts missing Podkin can't stop him...
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King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
Sidney Lanier & N. C. WyethKing Arthur’s stories are timeless tales that have been told countless times since the fifteenth century when Sir Thomas Malory introduced them in Le Morte d’Arthur. The basis for ...
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The Rulebreaker
Susan PageThe definitive biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all timeBarbara Waltersa woman whose personal demons fueled an ambition that broke all the rules and finally g...
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Pure Evil
Lynda La PlanteA Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
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I Am Alien to Life
Djuna Barnes & Merve EmreThe best of Djuna Barnes’s dark, droll, incisive short fiction, spanning her alltoobrief career, edited and introduced by Merve Emre.Djuna Barnes is rightly remembered for Nightwoo...
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The Confessions Of Robin Askwith
Robin AskwithOf all the actors and personalities thrown up by that strangest of periods. The 1970s, surely Robin Askwith was one of the most 'of his time'? As star of the infamous CONFE...
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Warriors
George R.R. Martin & Gardner DozoisFrom George R. R. Martin's Introduction to Warriors: "People have been telling stories about warriors for as long as they have been telling stories. Since Homer first sang the wrat...
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The First Time
Colton UnderwoodFrom former football player and star of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette comes a fascinating and eyeopening behindthescenes look at his dramafilled season on the hit reality show....
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Vanished
Lynda La PlanteThe upallnight new Detective Jack Warr thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of BURIED and JUDAS HORSE.When an eccentric elderly widow claims she is being stalked, Dete...
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Return to Wonderland
Various AuthorsReturn to Lewis Carroll's Wonderland with this stunning collection of original stories from today's biggest children's authors – Peter Bunzl, Pamela Butchart, Maz Evans, Swapna Had...
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The Mysterious Life and Faked Death of Jesse James
Daniel J. Duke & Teresa F. DukeA deep investigation into historical documents that prove the notorious outlaw Jesse James faked his own death Presents the legend of Jesse James and counters it with the real sto...