James Maynard (mathematician)

James Maynard

FRS
James Maynard; FRS
	Maynard in 2013
Born	James Alexander Maynard; 10 June 1987; Chelmsford, Essex, England
Alma mater	Queens' College, Cambridge (BA, MPhil); Balliol College, Oxford (PhD);
Known for	Work on prime gaps
Awards	SASTRA Ramanujan Prize (2014); Whitehead Prize (2015); EMS Prize (2016); Cole Prize (2020); Fields Medal (2022); New Horizons in Mathematics Prize (2023); Fellow of the Royal Society (2023);
	Scientific career
Fields	Number theory
Institutions	University of Montreal; University of Oxford;
Thesis	Topics in analytic number theory (2013)
Doctoral advisor	Roger Heath-Brown

James Alexander Maynard FRS (born 10 June 1987) is an English mathematician working in analytic number theory and in particular the theory of prime numbers. In 2017, he was appointed Research Professor at Oxford. Maynard is a fellow of St John's College, Oxford. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2022 and the New Horizons in Mathematics Prize in 2023.

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