Luke Pebody (born 1977) is a mathematician who solved the necklace problem. Educated at Rugby School, Luke Pebody was admitted to Cambridge University at the age of 14 to read mathematics. He went up when he was 16, making him one of the youngest undergraduates of all time (c.f. Seamus_McCauley). For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Moreaus necklace-counting function treats a problem that is not only recreational. ... A view of Rugby School from The Close, the playing field where according to legend Rugby was invented Rugby School, located in the town of Rugby, Warwickshire, is one of the oldest public schools in the United Kingdom and is perhaps one of the top co-educational boarding schools in... The University of Cambridge, located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...

Having graduated as an Optime from Trinity College, Cambridge, he proceeded to a doctoral degree at the University of Memphis, where, working with respected graph theorist Béla Bollobás, he presented a possible solution of the reconstruction problem for abelian groups, including the necklace problem. Whilst at Memphis, he invented the board game Intersect. At the University of Cambridge in England, an optime is a student who graduates with a second-class (Senior Optime) or third-class (Junior Optime) honours mathematics degree. ... Full name The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity Motto Virtus vera nobilitas Virtue is true Nobility Named after The Holy Trinity Previous names Kings Hall and Michaelhouse (until merged in 1546) Established 1546 Sister College(s) Christ Church Master The Lord Rees of Ludlow Location Trinity Street... The University of Memphis is a public American research university located in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. The University was founded under the auspices of the General Education Bill, enacted by the Tennessee Legislature in 1909. ... Béla Bollobás (born August 3, 1943 in Budapest, Hungary) is a leading Hungarian mathematician who has worked in functional analysis, and now specializes in combinatorics and graph theory. ... Moreaus necklace-counting function treats a problem that is not only recreational. ...

In 2001 he successfully applied for a junior research fellowship at his alma mater. Before returning to take up residence in Cambridge, he completed a year's research at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey and did a few weeks of work over the summer for Microsoft Research in Seattle, Washington. He was until Lent Term 2006 a full-time resident fellow of Trinity College, specialising in combinatorics. Fuld Hall The Institute for Advanced Study is a private institution in Princeton Township, New Jersey, U.S.A. (although it is not part of Princeton University), designed to foster pure cutting-edge research by scientists in a variety of fields without the complications of teaching or funding, or the... Nassau Street, Princetons main street. ... Microsoft Research is a division of Microsoft that is devoted to researching various computer science topics and issues. ... Nickname: The Emerald City Location of Seattle in King County and Washington Coordinates: Country United States State Washington County King County Incorporated December 2 1869 Mayor Greg Nickels Area    - City 369. ... Combinatorics is a branch of mathematics that studies collections (usually finite) of objects that satisfy specified criteria. ...

Dr Pebody's contributions to his field include:

• "Ramsey theory in graphs" (public lecture at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1997)
• "Contraction-deletion invariants for graphs" (with Béla Bollobás and Oliver Riordan) (J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 80 (2000) 320-345)
• "On combinatorial reconstruction" (public lecture at the University of Memphis, 2001)
• "A state-space representation of the HOMFLY polynomial" (with Béla Bollobás and David Weinreich) (Contemporary Combinatorics, Bolyai Society Mathematical Studies 10, 2002) PDF download
• "Combinatorial reconstruction using invariant polynomials" (public lecture at the Institute for Advanced Study, 2002)

In his spare time, Dr Pebody is an enthusiastic dramaturge, having directed and appeared in a number of productions within Cambridge as well as at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Ramsey theory, named for Frank P. Ramsey, is a branch of mathematics that studies the conditions under which order must appear. ... Full name The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity Motto Virtus vera nobilitas Virtue is true Nobility Named after The Holy Trinity Previous names Kings Hall and Michaelhouse (until merged in 1546) Established 1546 Sister College(s) Christ Church Master The Lord Rees of Ludlow Location Trinity Street... Béla Bollobás (born August 3, 1943 in Budapest, Hungary) is a leading Hungarian mathematician who has worked in functional analysis, and now specializes in combinatorics and graph theory. ... The University of Memphis is a public American research university located in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. The University was founded under the auspices of the General Education Bill, enacted by the Tennessee Legislature in 1909. ... Béla Bollobás (born August 3, 1943 in Budapest, Hungary) is a leading Hungarian mathematician who has worked in functional analysis, and now specializes in combinatorics and graph theory. ... Fuld Hall The Institute for Advanced Study is a private institution in Princeton Township, New Jersey, U.S.A. (although it is not part of Princeton University), designed to foster pure cutting-edge research by scientists in a variety of fields without the complications of teaching or funding, or the... Categories: Festival stubs | Edinburgh ...

Dr Pebody has now, rather than pursuing an academic career, elected to seek employment with a hedge fund in the United States. Generally, a hedge fund is a fund that is lightly regulated private investment fund often characterized by unconventional investment strategies and often making use of legal structures (sometimes offshore) to mitigate the effects of local regulation and tax régimes. ...

The surname Pebody is pronounced with a short E as in 'red', as opposed to the more common variant Peabody. He is married to a fundraiser called Elizabeth Swiers Pebody.