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Sir
Michael Atiyah
OM FRS FRSE FMedSci FAA HonFREng
Michael Atiyah in 2007
Born
Michael Francis Atiyah
(1929-04-22)22 April 1929
Hampstead, London, England
Died
11 January 2019(2019-01-11) (aged 89)
Edinburgh, Scotland
Education
Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, 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
Awards
Berwick Prize (1961)
Fields Medal (1966)
Royal Medal (1968)
De Morgan Medal (1980)
Copley Medal (1988)
Abel Prize (2004)
Scientific career
Fields
Mathematics
Institutions
University of Oxford
Institute for Advanced Study
University of Leicester
University of Edinburgh
University of Cambridge
Thesis
Some Applications of Topological Methods in Algebraic Geometry(1955)
Doctoral advisor
W. V. D. Hodge[1][2]
Doctoral students
Simon Donaldson
K. David Elworthy
Nigel Hitchin[3]
Lisa Jeffrey
Frances Kirwan
Peter Kronheimer
Ruth Lawrence
George Lusztig
Ian R. Porteous
Graeme Segal
David O. Tall[2]
Other notable students
Edward Witten
Sir Michael Francis AtiyahOM FRS FRSE FMedSci FAA HonFREng[4] (/əˈtiːə/; 22 April 1929 – 11 January 2019) was a British-Lebanese mathematician specialising in geometry.[5] 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.
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^ abMichael Atiyah at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
^Hitchin, Nigel J. (1972). Differentiable manifolds : the space of harmonic spinors. bodleian.ox.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 500473357. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.459281.
^"List of Fellows". Archived from the original on 8 June 2016. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
^O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Michael Atiyah", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
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