A. Jonathan Mestel is a distinguished British International Chess Grandmaster, who was born on March 13, 1957. He is also the first British-born player to achieve the title of International Grandmaster, bestowed onto him in 1982. He won the World Junior Chess Championship in 1974, the British Chess Championship four times and represented England multiple times in the Chess Olympiads. In addition, he competed in several world championships.
Mestel also holds another title as an International Grandmaster in chess problem-solving - making him one of the few individuals who excel at both playing chess and solving chess problems. He has won the World Chess Solving Championship three times.
Beyond his chess career, Mestel is also known for his academic work. He obtained a Doctorate in Applied Mathematics from the University of Cambridge in 1983. He's a former lecturer at the University of Cambridge and a senior lecturer at Imperial College London.
He has made contributions in the field of magnetohydrodynamics and authored academic papers that have been published in scholarly journals. Furthermore, he took on other mathematical pursuits, such as collaboratively working on the mathematics of juggling, thereby exploring its numerous possibilities and patterns.