David Sumpter Biography

David Sumpter is Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Uppsala Sweden. Originally from London but growing up in Scotland he completed his doctorate in Mathematics at Manchester and held a Royal Society Fellowship at Oxford before heading to Sweden. His scientific research covers everything from the inner workings of fish schools and ant colonies the analysis the passing networks of football teams segregation in society to machine learning and artificial intelligence. He has written for amongst others The Economist The Telegraph Current Biology Nordic Bet Blog The Conversation Mathematics Today and FourFourTwo magazine. He has written two books Soccermatics about the mathematics in soccer and Outnumbered which analyzes the algorithms that control our lives. He was awarded the IMA’s Catherine Richards prize for communicating mathematics to a wider audience.
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