Jonathan Partington

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Jonathan Richard Partington (born 4 February 1955) is an English mathematician and Emeritus Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Leeds. He studied at Gresham's School, Holt, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he earned his PhD, "Numerical ranges and the Geometry of Banach Spaces," under Béla Bollobás. His work covers operator theory and complex analysis, with applications in control theory, and he has written several books on these topics. He was editor-in-chief of the Journal of the London Mathematical Society, sharing the role with John Truss. Outside mathematics, Partington created the March March march, an annual walk starting in March, Cambridgeshire. He also helped write early British text-based computer games, including Acheton, Hamil, Murdac, Avon, Fyleet, Crobe, Sangraal and SpySnatcher, which began on the Phoenix computer at Cambridge’s Computer Laboratory and are now archived in the Interactive Fiction Archive.