nationality fields workplaces birth_date article_title name alma_mater
united kingdom mathematics university of birmingham 1947 tony gardiner
 tony gardiner university of warwick
tony gardiner

tony gardiner -lrb- born 1947 -rrb- is a british mathematician who until recently held the position of reader in mathematics and mathematics education at the university of birmingham .
he was responsible for the foundation of the united kingdom mathematics trust in 1996 , one of the uk 's largest mathematics enrichment programs , initiating the intermediate and junior mathematical challenges , creating the problem solving journal for secondary school students and organising numerous masterclasses , summer schools and educational conferences .
gardiner has contributed to many educational articles and internationally circulated educational pamphlets .
as well as his involvement with mathematics education , gardiner has also made contributions to the areas of infinite groups , finite groups , graph theory , and algebraic combinatorics .
in the year 1994 -- 1995 , he received the paul erdős award for his contributions to uk and international mathematical challenges and olympiads .
in 2011 , gardiner was elected education secretary of the london mathematical society .
