Mark Coleman

Biography

I am a Senior Lecturer and the Director of Teaching in the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester. My undergraduate degree was from Imperial College, London. This was followed by a Certificate of Advanced Study (also known as Part III) from Cambridge University. I then did a PhD with Alan Baker, FRS and Fields medal winner. My thesis had the catch-all title of Topics in the Distribution of Primes. Following a two year post-doc back at Imperial College I came north to UMIST in 1989.

Research Interest

Analytic Number Theory with special interest in the "geometric" distribution of ideals in number fields and, in particular, the distribution of Gaussian primes in the plane. The (almost certainly false?) conjecture in this area is that one can walk from the origin of the plane out to infinity with steps of bounded length stepping only on the Gaussian primes.