Bill Moorier

I was born in the UK and studied at the University of Nottingham, for a PhD in Mathematics. My PhD dug into what happens if you start with integration as a given, and then define differentiation in terms of it. It turns out, since Lebesgue integration is so much more powerful than Riemann integration (it works with weirder functions, on weirder spaces) if you do things this way you are able to do differentiation on much stranger subsets of the complex plane than before. And the spaces of nth-differentiable functions turn out to be very nicely behaving Banach Algebras!

After completing my PhD, I moved to California, and was the second employee at justin.tv (which later spun-off SocialCam and Twitch). I started Twitch Creative. I left Twitch in 2018, and now I'm a stay-at-home dad and homeschool teacher.

I taught myself programming when I was nine years old, on a ZX81, and I've been making computers do fun things ever since. I enjoy stand-up-paddleboarding, hiking, building stuff, and making music. In my spare time I like to hack both hardware and software, and play lego with my daughters Zoe and Alice.

My family name was originally Bland. In 2008, when I got married, my wife and I both changed our names to Moorier.

If you want to contact me, email is best.