Tony Lewis (mathematician)
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Anthony John Lewis
Duckworth–Lewis method of resetting targets in limited-overs cricket matches interrupted by weather or other circumstances.[2][3]
Personal life
Lewis was born in
Sheffield University with a degree in Mathematics and Statistics.[5]
Lewis was appointed
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
In the 1980s,
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
- ^ a b "Tony Lewis - England". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 31 December 2011.
- ^ Longmore, Andrew (16 May 1999), "First Night: Duckworth–Lewis: The odd couple getting even with the weather", The Independent, London, retrieved 25 May 2010
- New York Times, retrieved 25 May 2010
- ^ "Remembering Tony Lewis, cricket statistician and co-creator of the Duckworth-Lewis method". The Independent. 28 April 2020. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
- ^ a b IMA Mathematics in Sport Archived 2009-01-06 at the Wayback Machine conference web site.
- ^ a b c "Tony Lewis: Cricket statistician of the Duckworth-Lewis method dies aged 78". BBC Sport. 2 April 2020. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
- ^ "No. 59446". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 June 2010. p. 19.
- ^ Sharwood, Simon. "Cricket's average-busting mathematician Tony Lewis pulls up stumps". The Register. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
- ^ a b "Tony Lewis, co-creator of the Duckworth-Lewis method, passes away aged 78". The Cricketer. 2 April 2020. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
- ^ Rookwood, Dan (4 March 2003). "The Duckworth-Lewis method - explained". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 April 2024.
- ^ a b c d Miller, Andrew (2 April 2020). "Tony Lewis, of Duckworth-Lewis rain-rules fame, dies aged 78". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
