Brian Davies
Davies in January 2016
Born	Edward Brian Davies (1944-06-13)13 June 1944 (age 80)
Alma mater	St John's College, Oxford (Ph.D., 1965)
Awards	Senior Berwick Prize (1998)[1] Pólya Prize (2011)
Scientific career
Institutions	University of Oxford King's College London
Doctoral advisor	David Edwards
Doctoral students	David E. Evans

Edward Brian DaviesFRS (born 13 June 1944) is a former professor of Mathematics,King's College London (1981–2010), and is the author of thepopular science bookScience in the Looking Glass: What do Scientists Really Know.^[2] In 2010, he was awarded aGauss Lecture by theGerman Mathematical Society.^[3]

• Davies, E. Brian (1976).Quantum Theory of Open Systems. Academic Press.ISBN 0-12-206150-0.
• Davies, E.B. (1980).One-Parameter Semigroups. London Math. Soc. Monograph series. Academic Press.ISBN 0-12-206280-9.
• Davies, E.B. (1989).Heat Kernels and Spectral Theory. Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics. Vol. 92. Cambridge University Press.ISBN 0-521-36136-2.^[4]
• Davies, E.B. (1995).Spectral Theory and Differential Operators. Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics. Vol. 42. Cambridge University Press.ISBN 0-521-47250-4.
• Davies, E.B.; Safarov, Y. (1999).Spectral Theory and Geometry. London Math. Soc. Lecture Note Series. Vol. 273. Cambridge University Press.ISBN 0-521-77749-6.
• Davies, E.B. (2003).Science in the Looking Glass. Oxford University Press.ISBN 0-19-852543-5.
• Davies, E.B. (2007).Linear Operators and their Spectra. Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics. Vol. 106. Cambridge University Press.ISBN 978-0-521-86629-3.
• Davies, E.B. (2010).Why Beliefs Matter: Reflections on the Nature of Science. Oxford University Press.ISBN 978-0-19-958620-2.

• Brian Davies' King's College London Home Page
• Brian Davies' Personal Home Page
• Full proof? Let's trust it to the black box Times Higher Education 1 September 2006
• New Scientist book review ofWhy Beliefs Matter
• London Mathematical Society Review ofWhy Beliefs Matter: Reflections on the Nature of Science byColva Roney-Dougal
• E. Brian Davies at theMathematics Genealogy Project

• 1944 births
• 20th-century Welsh mathematicians
• 21st-century Welsh mathematicians
• British academic journal editors
• Academics of King's College London
• Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford
• Fellows of King's College London
• Fellows of the Royal Society
• Fellows of St John's College, Oxford
• Living people

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