Qualifications

At the top of his list of qualifications are Tyson’s three Ph.Ds that he earnt by the time he was sixteen. One in military history, one in applied mathematics, and one in theoretical mathematics.

Though Tyson has continued his education in London since then, and is more than capable of earning other Ph.Ds/Masters, Tyson has declined the opportunity to even try for anything above Level 6. He doesn’t feel as though he has a right to even try, when the privilege was handed to him on a silver platter the first time around.

Here is the list of his current qualifications in order of UK qualification levels:

Level 8

• PhD - Applied Mathematics - Cambridge University
• PhD - Theoretical Mathematics - Cambridge University
• PhD - Military History - Cambridge University

Level 7

• Master of Engineering - University College London
• Master of History - Cambridge University
• Master of Mathematics - Cambridge University
• Postgraduate certificate in Education (PGCE)

Level 6

• Bachelor of Criminology - City, University of London
• Bachelor of Economics - London School of Economics
• Bachelor of Engineering - University College London
• Bachelor of History - Cambridge University
• Bachelor of Mathematics - Cambridge University
• Bachelor of Law - Cambridge University
• Bachelor of Physics - University of London
• Level 6 Certificate in British Sign Language Studies 

Level 5

• American Sign Language Certificate (Level 5 Equivalent)
• Command, Leadership and Management (CLM) - Army
• DipHE - Architecture - City, University of London 
• DipHE - Classical Studies - Cambridge University
• DipHE - English Literature - University of London 
• DipHE - Mathematics Sciences - University College London
• Foundation Degree in Computing and IT Practice - Open University
• Foundation Degree in Engineering - Open University
• OCR Level 5 NVQ - Learning and Development

Level 4

• ActiveIQ Level 4 Certificate in Education and Training
• CertHE - Applied Physics - University of London
• CertHE - Common Law - College of London
• CertHE - Business Management - Open University
• CertHE - History (French Revolution) - City, University of London 
• CertHE - History (Persian) - University of London
• CertHE - Social Sciences - City, University of London 

Level 3

• A Level - Art -  Cambridge International School
• A Level - English Literature -  Cambridge International School
• A Level - Hebrew -  Cambridge International School
• A Level - History -  Cambridge International School
• A Level - Latin -  Cambridge International School
• A Level - Law -  Cambridge International School
• A Level - Mathematics -  Cambridge International School
• A Level - Physics -  Cambridge International School
• ABRSM - Piano Grade 6
• AS - Economics -  Cambridge International School
• AS - Statistics -  Cambridge International School
• Cambridge Technicals - Business
• Cambridge Technicals - Engineering
• IQL - Emergency First Aid at Work
• OCN - Principles of Dog Training and Behaviour
• OCR ICT Level 3
• OCR Mathematics for Engineering Level 3
• Range Management Qualification - Leadership & Mangement - Army

Level 2

• Cambridge Nationals Level 2 - Business and Enterprise 
• ESOL Skills for Life Certificate Level 2
• GCSE A* - Biblical Hebrew - Cambridge International School 
• GCSE A* - Geography - Cambridge International School 
• GCSE A* - History - Cambridge International School 
• GCSE A* - Mathematics - Cambridge International School
• GCSE A* - Physics - Cambridge International School 
• GCSE A - Art and Design - Cambridge International School 
• GCSE A - Chemistry - Cambridge International School
• GCSE A - Economics - Cambridge International School 
• GCSE A - English - Cambridge International School
• GCSE A - Latin - Cambridge International School 
• GCSE A - Law - Cambridge International School 
• GCSE B - Biology - Cambridge International School
• GCSE B - French - Cambridge International School
• GCSE B - Spanish - Cambridge International School
• GCSE C - German - Cambridge International School
• HABC Award in First Aid at Work Level 2 

Level 1

• ABRSM - Descant Recorder Grade 3
• ABRSM - Treble Recorder Grade 2
• AQA - Personal and Social Education Level 1
• British Red Cross Certificate of Learning Level 1
• Functional Skills ICT Level 1

And then, these aren’t academics qualification, yet they are things that Tyson has achieved to the point of receiving a medal, certificate, or qualification:

Other

• A B+E C1+E Driver’s License
• ASA Stage 7 Swimming Award
• British Academy of Fencing Epée Gold Award
• British Academy of Fencing Saber Gold Award 
• British Academy of Fencing Foil Silver Award 
• Diver Level 2 Qualification - Autonomous Diver
• Conspicuous Gallantry Cross 
• George Cross
• Operational Service Medal for Afghanistan
• The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (Gold)
• Victoria Cross

Teacher!Verse

Within Teacher!Verse, Tyson has returned to the family legacy of teaching mathematics at Cambridge University; and struggling not to see that as a failure.

If Tyson died mid-semester and anyone had to look through his files to take over his lessons, they would be doomed. Tyson doesn’t keep anything related to the web at the university, but his very organised system is …intangible for anyone else.

It begins easily, sorted by class and then descends into a complex colour coding based on the colours Tyson sees with his Synesthesia. He simply finds it easier to link the work to the student than trying to remember purely by name. However, that means no one else can follow along.

A blue folder may mean one thing for one student, yet mean something else with a yellow dot sticker on the outside, and something different if that yellow dot has a blue, black, or red 2 written in the middle.

It makes perfect sense to Tyson and so long as Tyson doesn’t get killed in his work for the Moriarty Mirrors, no members of the mathematics department will be reduced into tears having to sort through his system.

Rather than only allowing his best students into the Delaney family manor as his father did, Tyson has opened it up for as many students as he can. He doesn’t want people to have free access to his home, but he wants the resources to be used and to help as many students as he can, not only those in his classes.

He continues to guest lecture elsewhere whenever he can, but Tyson will always prioritise his own students. He’s already dividing his attention between the university and the needs of the Moriarty Mirrors, he doesn’t want to take more away from them. He owes his students, and the university, to give as much as he can.

Aliens

There is a principle in mathematics called the Drake equation, that uses probability to figure out the likelihood of alien life, and - as ever - Tyson puts his faith in mathematics completely.

Whilst Tyson agrees that the construction of the equation is flawed in several ways, it seems more absurd to him to assume that there wouldn’t be other intelligent life in the entire universe.

He believes that there are other answers for being getting abducted and Tyson fundamentally hates anyone who insists that ancient human civilisation and religions were the results of alien influence, but he does believe that earth cannot be an anomaly.

Prophesy

Though Tyson believes that fate can always be changed, Tyson is interested in the mathematics of prophecy and predicting the future.

He uses his own form of predicting the future for the web, Game Theory. Previously, Tyson used Game Theory as a strategist in the army. The police may utilise it to catch criminals, but Tyson uses it to predict targets of the web and the decisions the police are likely to make to protect employees of the web, himself, and The Colonel.

His favourite part of Game Theory is being proved wrong. That there is always another option, a new variable to consider next time. He can predict the most likely outcomes, but life had so many different variables that he can’t be correct every time and every time that Tyson gets it right, it feels like a victory.

As mentioned when discussing cards, Tyson knows how to read tarot cards. He mixes the interpretation and meaning of the cards with Game Theory to make it sound more believable. Tyson puts complete faith in mathematics, he believes that predictions based on mathematics are the most likely outcome, so his audience is more likely to listen and accept his words. 

Cards

Playing cards against a mathematical prodigy isn’t the brightest idea.

Anyone that knows Tyson knows that he is a mathematician.

He doesn’t even have to try to card count, it comes naturally to him and he knows the laws of probability for each game.

This means you should absolutely never play cards against him, unless you want to lose all your money / clothing.

Do not play him at Poker, or Gin, or Rummy, BlackJack, or any other card game that involves / can involve stakes.

Snap is fine though, snap is safe.

Tyson is a fan of Trading Card Games/Collectable Card Games. He’ll infrequently play Hearthstone on his tablet to pass time, and Tyson will dabble in any new ones that appear in the digital store.

Tyson plays the Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokémon, and Magic of the Gathering card games with his nephew. James’ interest waxes and wanes for which card game he wants to play, but he usually leans more towards Yu-Gi-Oh.

Though he doesn’t personally believe they have any power, Tyson knows how to read tarot cards and has done so for several cons over the years. At times, to earn quick coins and at other times as a distraction for other members of the web to complete their part of the job.

In his Pokémon AU, Tyson makes sure to grab a trading card for every Pokémon that he has on his team. It’s part of his OCD within that universe, a compulsion he has to complete to avoid whatever catastrophic event he believes will happen otherwise. To that end, he keeps decks with every Pokémon at various safe houses so that he can easily swap out which cards are stashed away in the back of his Pokédex.

Geometric Mathematics

Tyson loves geometric mathematics, getting to see the numbers that are so important be visualised.

His loves of Hexagons had been long established, but those aren’t the only shapes that Tyson cares about.

From a thread with flight-of-the-thieving-magpie:

“Hexagons are found everywhere as the most efficient shape: in every painstakingly crafted piece of honeycomb, the shape of each otherwise entirely unique snowflake and delicate clusters when bubbles meet, even in the monumental mass of the Giant’s Causeway; but it’s not the only shape maths gives. Not the only answer. The Platonic Solids were accepted as the truth before we had proof in crystalline forms. Arches were always pure compression forms. Mathematics proved that long before we had the test of time in the Roman Coliseum remaining largely intact centuries later. Proof is rigid fact. Proof is required for anything else to be accepted as the truth, mathematics proves itself. Tangible evidence is…” His gaze had initially been drawn to Jim’s lips, but had since drifted to his eyes. Tyson trailed off as he recognised his presence again, “…incidental, J-Jim.” 

From a thread with smokingoursmiles:

“It’s n-nice, aesthetically and geometrically. The lines give create volume w-without sub-sectioning the building.” Tyson was never fond of open buildings or places, he preferred places where he could curl up and hide away from the world - he liked the Delaney family manor for this reason, there were dozens of rooms for him to hide away in where no one would find him - but he appreciated it from a mathematically standpoint, and in places where there were some closed of rooms he could manage it.

He’d always had a soft spot in his heart for engineering and architecture because in them he could see mathematics, mostly geometry but also the numbers involved in causing momentum and the angle of light reflected around a room to give the most light with the least artificial. To him mathematics was beautiful - it was pure and honest, always giving more answers and never taking away.

He loves all types of mathematics, but parts that he can share with other people always hold more weight in Tyson’s mind. Geometric mathematics is one of the easier parts to share as it connects to so many different areas of life that other people already put value in

Bees

For a time, Tyson raised bees.

This was part of his research for his Ph.D in applied mathematics. Tyson left his secondary school (Cambridge International School) and began attending Cambridge University at age fifteen, but due to his tutors, Tyson had already begun university level education by this point.

This also meant that, knowing what was expected of him to continue the family legacy and aware of his father’s plans to transfer him, Tyson began working on the research he would need before actually attending the university.

His first paper was on his favourite subjects, hexagons and game theory. Hexagons are Tyson’s absolute favourite shape, bees build their hives using hexagons, and game theory can be used to predict the behaviour of bees, ants, humans, and beyond.

Though he could use many other resources, Tyson was aware of what his father demanded of his students for that course. He needed to have his own evidence for at least one of his applied mathematics papers. So, Tyson enlisted the help of one of John Delaney’s fellow professors, Mrs E. Baldwin, who raised bees in her free time.

He wanted evidence for how mathematics could be used to predict how bees would build their homes in any given container and under different circumstances, such as proximity to flowers. The easier part to prove was that they would always build in hexagons, as it was the most efficient shape and there was hundreds of years of precedent.

To prove how game theory predicts behaviour, ants would have been easier subjects; as they are overall easier to observe working and can be made to operate in a small area. However, Tyson wanted to consolidate his time usage better and give the paper a more direct focus, so resolved to use bees instead.

In more general information, Tyson has never been afraid of bees and he was rather at home in the bee keeper’s helmet, as he’d been fencing for several years at that point.

Though he has never had a particularly sweet tooth, Tyson has struggled with low blood sugar ever since he was a child. Every day after school, ever since he was old enough to attend nursery, one of the maids at the family manor would give Tyson a teaspoon of honey. If he didn’t eat that, Tyson would collapse or have wild mood swings for several hours; which is saying something as, on any given day, Tyson can give a man emotional whiplash.

Tyson has fond memories of sharing pieces of honeycomb, gifted by Elizabeth around his father’s birthday, and a bowl of strawberries whilst playing games of chess against his father in his study or the family library; which Tyson spent most of his childhood thinking of as his father’s library.

Hairy Ball Theorem

Tyson's first lesson usually involves teaching the hairy ball theorum.

It’s a crass technique, but it gets a giggle out of some of the new students and gets their attention. That way, he has their focus when he moves onto more complex mathematical theories.

This applies for Teacher!verse Tyson, and the guest lectures normal Tyson gives at Cambridge.

Rhombic Icosahedron

Though Tyson doesn't, usually, give gifts during Christmas or other such holidays (full headcanon here) he does give gifts at other times of year, usually as thanks.

When giving gifts Tyson gives metal boxes in the shape of Rhombic Icosahedrons. As a general rule the boxes are one inch in height and are made of stainless steel with a brass coating. The Rhombic Icosahedron isn't Tyson's favourite shape, time (and mathematics) has proven that to be the regular Hexagon, but from a mathematical point of view it is still an interesting shape.

Each 'set' of gift boxes are personalised to the person he is giving it to, usually by removing part of the layer of brass to allow the stainless steel to show through to make a pattern but occasionally pieces of other metals (usually bronze or aluminium) are added. The inside of the metal boxs are always lined with felt, to keep the contense safe, the colour of which is personalised for the person he intends to give it to. For example, when giving a gift to his brother, Jethro Andrew Delaney, Tyson makes a checkerboard pattern on the container with a red lining inside & when giving a gift to Jasmine, the maid at the family manor who served as his surrogate mother, he makes a series of butterflies with a white lining inside.

There are two different ways that Tyson gives gifts through theses containers: small items and microchips.

1. The small items that normally go into the boxes are usually money, jewellery, or (carefully folded, sometimes origami) letters. Tyson is very loose with his money. He grew up in a rich household with no reason to carefully monitor his expenses which leads to him often over-tipping and not checking receipts. It is rare that Tyson will buy jewellery, he doesn't really care for it, so if he does by some for a person it means that he really cares for them. Letters are important to Tyson, he thinks they are special. (Original head canon here). Every now and again there will be a small key inside the container that opens a pervious present, usually one delivered in the style bellow. 
2. For items too large to put into the small container Tyson uses microchips to give directions to the item or to send a digital item such as photos/programming/videos. How to use the information depends on the type of chip in the container: sometimes it will go into a GPS to give directions, sometimes it will be photo directions (usually showing the street name that a turn needs to be made at, sometimes with Tyson in the photo), sometimes it will be a digital copy of a customised map Tyson has made, and sometimes it will be step-by-step instructions on a .PDF file. Sometimes Tyson won't put directions on the microchip, sometimes it will be blank and he will put a small piece of paper (fortune-cookie fortune sized) with a riddle instead to give hints to the present or to the next clue/riddle/code.

Tyson has never felt alone.

Given enough time a room full of monkeys with typewriters will make the complete works of Shakespeare

Tyson has never felt alone because of mathematics. He knows the laws of probability and that there are a finite combination of letters in the English language that make words.

Tyson knows that statistically there are going to be other people who have had the exact same thoughts as him, who likes the same things, who wants the same things. He'd always known this because of mathematics. 

Tyson has felt lonely and craved the company of other people but he had never felt alone, because he has never been alone, he isn't alone, and he will never be alone.

Mathematical books

When Tyson wants to relax he'll re-read his mathematical (text)books. He had several, mostly kept under his bed, but his favourite are his tattered and dog-earred copies of:

1. Games of Life: Explorations in Ecology, Evolution, and Behaviour by Karl Sigmund
2. A course in pure mathematics by G. H. Hardy
3. The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Sir Issac Newton

Tyson's Education

The secondary school Tyson attended was Cambridge International School, a private school. He attended until he was fifteen when his father had him moved to Cambridge University, four years early.

His father was able to do this because he’d held a position at Cambridge University as a Professor of Mathematics for over twenty years.

At Cambridge Tyson studied mathematics and military history. His anti-war father disagreed with his choice of minor but agreed to let him continue it rather than taking political studies. Tyson was also able to study law at Cambridge for half a semester when he finished mathematics early. 

He dropped out of school at seventeen to join the Army so his father couldn't make him go to Cambridge university to teach mathematics, but by this point he'd already earned his degrees (3 Ph.Ds) and any work he had left was just tidying up course work. He (technically) left a week before his seventeenth birthday, but he thinks of it as his seventeenth birthday.

UPDATE 03/10/2013 - This makes Tyson's timeline, at this point in time, read as follows: seventeen year in Cambridge, eleven years in the army (four years basic training, followed by five years training the dogs, and then two years on the front line with Sebastian), fifteen months on the run with Sebastian, four months in the Middle East, two months travelling across Europe, and just over a year and a half with Jim.