Imre Leader

Imre Bennett Leader is a British Othello player, currently employed as a professor of pure mathematics at Cambridge University.

Imre Leader
Born (1963-10-30) 30 October 1963
Alma materCambridge University
AwardsWhitehead Prize (1999)
Scientific career
FieldsCombinatorics
ThesisDiscrete Isoperimetric Inequalities and Other Combinatorial Results (1989)
Doctoral advisorBéla Bollobás

As a child, he was a pupil at the private St Paul's School and won a silver medal on the British team at the 1981 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) for pre-undergraduates.[1]

Between 1983 and 2016 he was 12 times the British Othello champion. In 1983 he came second in the world individual championship, and in 1988 he played on the British team that won the world team championship.[2] In 2019 he won the European championship, beating Matthias Berg in the final in Berlin.[3]

In mathematics he specialises in combinatorics, and in 1989 he completed his PhD thesis on various combinatorial results, supervised by Béla Bollobás.[4] Between 1999 and 2001 he was the chief trainer of the British IMO team. Godson of mathematical philosopher Imre Lakatos of the London School of Economics, he is a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.[5]

References
  1. Imre Leader's results at International Mathematical Olympiad
  2. "World Othello Championships". World Othello Federation. Archived from the original on 2011-10-05.
  3. Tournament Report EGP 2019
  4. Imre Leader at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. "Directory of Fellows". Trinity College, Cambridge.
  • Some publications from DBLP


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