Tony Lewis (mathematician)
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Personal life
Lewis was born in Bolton, Lancashire. He attended Kirkham Grammar School[4] and graduated from Sheffield University with a degree in Mathematics and Statistics.[5]
Lewis was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours.[6][7]
Lewis died on 15 March 2020, aged 78.[1][8]
Career
Lewis was formerly a lecturer at the University of the West of England (UWE).[6] In January 2008, he retired as a lecturer in Quantitative Research Methods from Oxford Brookes University.[9]
He was also a former chairman of the Western Operational Research Society[10] and was a keynote speaker at the Second IMA International Conference on Mathematics in Sport in 2009.[5] Lewis also undertook various consultancy roles in England and Australia.[9]
Duckworth-Lewis Method
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In the 1980s, Frank Duckworth had proposed a method of resetting targets in interrupted limited-overs cricket matches.[11] After the 1992 Cricket World Cup, commentator Christopher Martin-Jenkins asked for a better calculation system.[11] Lewis read Duckworth's 1992 paper Fair Play in Foul Weather and together they devised the Duckworth-Lewis Method.[11] In 2014, Steven Stern became custodian of the method, and it was renamed the Duckworth–Lewis–Stern method.[6][11]
References
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External links
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- 1942 births
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- Limited overs cricket
- Academics of the University of the West of England, Bristol
- Members of the Order of the British Empire
- English statisticians
- Alumni of the University of Sheffield
- People from Bolton
- Academics of Oxford Brookes University
- People educated at Kirkham Grammar School