Julian Pottage is a British contract bridge

Contract bridge

Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard deck of 52 playing cards played by four players in two competing partnerships with partners sitting opposite each other around a small table...

 author, player and teacher, who studied mathematics at Trinity College Cambridge. He's also well-known as a collector of bridge problems, and writes a monthly problem column in Britain's Bridge Magazine. He has authored or co-authored 17 books on bridge, including Bridge Problems for a New Millennium and The Extra Edge In Play with the late Terence Reese

Terence Reese

John Terence Reese was a British bridge player and writer, regarded as one of the finest of all time in both fields...

. He also co-edited the recent second edition of Clyde E. Love

Clyde E. Love

Clyde E. Love was a contract bridge author and mathematics professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is well-known in bridge circles for his 1959 book Bridge Squeezes Complete, one of the earliest efforts to codify then-existing squeeze play. Love established rules for recognizing...

's Bridge Squeezes Complete

Bridge Squeezes Complete

Bridge Squeezes Complete is a book on contract bridge written by Ann Arbor, Michigan-based mathematics professor Clyde E. Love, originally published in 1959...

. His book Play or Defend? won the International Bridge Press Association's 2004 Book of the Year Award.

As a player, Pottage has competed in several national and international events, notably winning the Pachabo and Tollemache double in 1999. He lives in Hampshire, England.