Kenneth John Falconer CBE FRSE (born 25 January 1952) is a British mathematician working in mathematical analysis and in particular on fractal geometry.
He formulated Falconer's conjecture on the dimension of distance sets and conceived the notion of a digital sundial.
[1] In combinatorial geometry he established a lower bound of 5 for the chromatic number of the plane in the Lebesgue measurable case.
[4] Falconer was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2024 New Year Honours for services to mathematics.
[5] Falconer was born 25 January 1952 at Bearsted Memorial Maternity Hospital outside Hampton Court Palace.