Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics
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The Rouse Ball Professorship of Mathematics is one of the senior chairs in Mathematics at Cambridge University, and was founded in 1927 by a bequest from the mathematician W. W. Rouse Ball.
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Rouse Ball Professors
- John Littlewood (1928-1950)
- Abram Besicovitch (1950-1958)
- Harold Davenport (1958-1969)
- John Griggs Thompson (1971-1993)
- Nigel Hitchin (1994-1997)
- Timothy Gowers (1998-)
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