User:Alfred Vella

Hi I am Alfred Vella

This page is ‘in the making’ and will probably always be in that state.

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Biography

I was born in Birmingham in 1952 of Maltese parents, hence the name, which is one of the most common family names in Malta.

I have a number of passions which I probably pursue – well too passionately for some. The most mentionable are:

Justice for staff and students of Luton ‘University’ (now the 'University' of Bedfordshire), Computing, Mathematics, Horticulture and Politics

Computing

My main computing research area was Artificial Intelligence but I have also published in User Interfaces and Computer Applications.

Mathematics

My PhD is in pure mathematics, presentations of groups and in particular ‘small cancellation theory’. The sort of problems in that area that I looked solving the word problem, malnormality and ‘obvious presentations’.

Fibonacci numbers and Pythagorean triples. A series of papers on these subjects have been published.

Horticulture

I grow lots of things. I like to eat what I grow so I grow figs, grapes and most of the top and soft fruit family. In 2006 we had our first decent crop of apricots, peaches, necarines and mulberries!

For sentimental reasons I like the Himalayan Nutmeg (a sort of honeysuckle) and Tamarix (tamarisk) plants.