David Sumpter
Applied mathematician and professor
David Sumpter is an applied mathematician and professor at Uppsala University in Sweden. He wrote Soccermatics, which applies mathematics to football.
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About David Sumpter
David Sumpter is a professor of applied mathematics at Uppsala University in Sweden. He builds mathematical models to make sense of real-world phenomena, drawing on both mathematics and the social and behavioral sciences. He leads a research group on collective behavior, which studies how groups work together. He has published more than 100 academic articles and written five books. Two of them, Soccermatics and Outnumbered, are described as best-sellers, and they explore how mathematics applies to football and to data-driven decision-making.