Michael Atiyah
Sir Michael Atiyah | |
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Michael Atiyah in 2007 | |
| Born | Michael Francis Atiyah 22 April 1929 Hampstead, London, England |
| Died | 11 January 2019 (aged 89) Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Education | Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, MA, PhD) |
| Known for | Atiyah algebroid Atiyah conjecture Atiyah conjecture on configurations Atiyah flop Atiyah–Bott formula Atiyah–Bott fixed-point theorem Atiyah–Floer conjecture Atiyah–Hirzebruch spectral sequence Atiyah–Jones conjecture Atiyah–Hitchin–Singer theorem Atiyah–Singer index theorem Atiyah–Segal completion theorem ADHM construction Fredholm module Eta invariant K-theory KR-theory Pin group Toric manifold |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
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| Thesis | Some Applications of Topological Methods in Algebraic Geometry (1955) |
| Doctoral advisor | W. V. D. Hodge[1][2] |
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| Other notable students | Edward Witten |
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah (/əˈtiːə/; 22 April 1929 – 11 January 2019) was a British-Lebanese mathematician specialising in geometry.[3] His contributions include the Atiyah–Singer index theorem and co-founding topological K-theory. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1966 and the Abel Prize in 2004.