William Shaw (mathematician), Date of Birth

William Shaw (mathematician)

British professor and mathematician

Date of Birth: 14-May-1958

Profession: mathematician

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

William Shaw (born 14 May 1958) is a British mathematician, currently visiting professor of the mathematics and computation of risk at University College London.
He is a consultant on financial derivatives, an author of a primary book on using Mathematica to model financial derivatives, co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Applied Mathematical Finance, and a member of the Mathematics and Computer Science Departments at University College London. Willian Shaw studied at King's College, Cambridge, where he studied mathematics; he was Wrangler and earned a B.A.
in 1980.
In 1981 he won the Mayhew Prize for his performance on the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos.
In 1984 he received a Ph.D.
in mathematical physics from Wolfson College, Oxford.
From 1984 to 1987 he was a research fellow at Cambridge and C.L.E.
Moore Instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
From 1991 to 2002 he was a lecturer in mathematics at Balliol College, Oxford, and in 2002 he moved to St Catherine's College, Oxford, where he was University lecturer in financial mathematics.
In 2006 he moved to a Professorship at King's College London and in 2011 to UCL.