Kevin Houston (mathematician)

Kevin Houston is a senior lecturer in the School of Mathematics at the University of Leeds, a post he has held since 2005.[1] Prior to that, he was a lecturer at Middlesex University and a research associate at the University of Liverpool.[2] His research is on singularity theory.

Kevin Houston
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Warwick
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Liverpool, Middlesex University, University of Leeds
ThesisLocal Topology of Complex Analytic Maps (1994)
Doctoral advisorDavid Mond and Miles Reid
Websitewww.kevinhouston.net

Books

Houston is the author of the book

  • Kevin Houston (2009). How to Think Like a Mathematician: A Companion to Undergraduate Mathematics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-71978-X.

In addition he is an editor of:

  • Goryunov, Victor; Kevin Houston; Roberta Wik-Atique, eds. (2012). Real and Complex Singularities. Contemporary Mathematics. 569. American Mathematical Society. pp. 202 pp. ISBN 978-0-8218-5359-7.
  • Speight, Martin R.; Roger Bielawski; Kevin Houston, eds. (2011). Variational Problems in Differential Geometry (London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series). Cambridge University Press. p. 216. ISBN 0-521-28274-8.
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References
  1. "Person page: Dr Kevin Houston". School of Mathematics, University of Leeds. Retrieved 2013-04-08.
  2. "About". Kevin Houston. Retrieved 2013-04-08.


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