Michael Atiyah
British mathematician
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah OM FRS FRSE FMedSci FAA FREng[2] (/əˈtiːə/; 22 April 1929 – 11 January 2019) was an English mathematician specialising in geometry.[3] He won the Fields Medal in 1966 and the Abel Prize in 2004.
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Born | Michael Francis Atiyah 22 April 1929 Hampstead, London, England |
Died | 11 January 2019 Edinburgh, Scotland | (aged 89)
Nationality | British |
Known for | Atiyah–Singer index theorem Atiyah–Segal completion theorem |
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Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, PhD) |
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Thesis | Some Applications of Topological Methods in Algebraic Geometry (1955) |
Doctoral advisor | W. V. D. Hodge |
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Other notable students | Edward Witten |
He was president of the Royal Society (1990–1995), master of Trinity College, Cambridge (1990–1997), chancellor of the University of Leicester (1995–2005), and president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2005–2008). From 1997 until his death, he was an honorary professor at the University of Edinburgh.[4] During 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians, Atiyah said he had a proof for Riemann hypothesis.[5][6]
Atiyah died on 11 January 2019 in Edinburgh, Scotland at the age of 89.[7]
References
Other websites
- Michael Atiyah tells his life story at Web of Stories
- The celebrations of Michael Atiyah's 80th birthday in Edinburgh, 20-24 April 2009
- Mathematical descendants of Michael Atiyah
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