 Ball was educated at Berkhamsted School and Trinity College, Cambridge where he studied the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos and was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics in 1982 and a PhD in 1987 for research supervised by Béla Bollobás.Keith Ball's research is in the fields of functional analysis, high-dimensional and discrete geometry and information theory.He is the author of "Strange Curves, Counting Rabbits, & Other Mathematical Explorations".