Toland was educated at St Columb's College in Derry and Queen's University Belfast, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in 1970.
[2] He completed postgraduate study at the University of Sussex, where he was awarded a PhD in 1973[3] for research on topological methods for nonlinear eigenvalue problems supervised by Charles A.
[1] From 1982 to 2011 he was professor of mathematics at the University of Bath,[4] where he held an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Senior Fellowship 1997–2002.
In 1978, he proved George Gabriel Stokes' conjecture on the existence of gravity waves of maximum height on deep water, a previously open problem in mathematical hydrodynamics which dated back to the 19th century.
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