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Topology of smooth (differentiable) four-dimensional manifolds Donaldson theory Donaldson theorem Donaldson–Thomas theory Donaldson–Uhlenbeck–Yau theorem K-stability K-stability of Fano varieties Yau–Tian–Donaldson conjecture
Awards
Junior Whitehead Prize (1985) Fields Medal (1986) Royal Medal (1992) Crafoord Prize (1994) Pólya Prize (1999) King Faisal International Prize (2006) Nemmers Prize in Mathematics (2008) Shaw Prize in Mathematics (2009) Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics (2014) Oswald Veblen Prize (2019) Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2020)
Scientific career
Fields
Topology
Institutions
Imperial College London Stony Brook University Institute for Advanced Study Stanford University University of Oxford
Thesis
The Yang–Mills Equations on Kähler Manifolds(1983)
Doctoral advisor
Michael Atiyah Nigel Hitchin
Doctoral students
Oscar Garcia Prada Dominic Joyce Dieter Kotschick Graham Nelson Paul Seidel Ivan Smith Gábor Székelyhidi Richard Thomas Michael Thaddeus
Sir Simon Kirwan DonaldsonFRS (born 20 August 1957) is an English mathematician known for his work on the topology of smooth (differentiable) four-dimensional manifolds, Donaldson–Thomas theory, and his contributions to Kähler geometry. He is currently a permanent member of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University in New York,[1] and a Professor in Pure Mathematics at Imperial College London.
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Sir Simon Kirwan Donaldson FRS (born 20 August 1957) is an English mathematician known for his work on the topology of smooth (differentiable) four-dimensional...
theory, Donaldson theory is the study of the topology of smooth 4-manifolds using moduli spaces of anti-self-dual instantons. It was started by Simon Donaldson...
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books; Donaldson's co-author was Simon Carr, who would write an obituary of Donaldson for The Independent), Talbot Church, and Liz Reed. Donaldson married...
from the original (PDF) on 25 October 2017. Retrieved 31 March 2017. "SimonDonaldson (Royal Society Research Professor)". Department of Mathematics, Imperial...
interpretation of the de Rham cohomology, and gauge theory was used by SimonDonaldson to prove facts about the intersection form of simply connected 4-manifolds...
variations was published by SimonDonaldson in the March 2019 issue of Notices of the American Mathematical Society; Donaldson describes the work of Uhlenbeck...
together with his former advisor Xiuxiong Chen and English mathematician SimonDonaldson, for proving a long-standing conjecture on Fano manifolds, which states...
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problems which seemed to be intractable only a few years ago."[1] SimonDonaldson wrote: "The concept of Floer homology is one of the most striking developments...
Isadore Singer, and his students included Graeme Segal, Nigel Hitchin, SimonDonaldson, and Edward Witten. Together with Hirzebruch, he laid the foundations...
Oxford. He undertook a DPhil in geometry under the supervision of SimonDonaldson, completed in 1992. After this he held short-term research posts at...
Retrieved 14 August 2018. "Mathematics Breakthrough Prize > Laureates > SimonDonaldson". Archived from the original on 2014-11-01. Retrieved 2014-06-24. "Mathematics...
February 2024. "SimonDonaldson". Royal Society. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2015. "SimonDonaldson". Crafoord Prize...
his career, Hitchin has supervised 37 research students, including SimonDonaldson (part-supervised with Atiyah). Until 2013 Nigel Hitchin served as the...
the Verlinde Formula, was published in 1992 under the supervision of SimonDonaldson. In 1994, Thaddeus was elected to become a junior fellow at the Harvard...
2. The journal has seven editors: Vitali Milman (editor-in-chief), SimonDonaldson, Mikhail Gromov, Larry Guth, Boáz Klartag, Leonid Polterovich, and...
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