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Chapters: Edmond Halley, G. H. Hardy, Michael Atiyah, Henry John Stephen Smith, Savilian Professor of Geometry, John Wallis, Baden Powell, James Joseph Sylvester, Henry Briggs, Richard Taylor, Abraham Robertson, Nigel Hitchin, Nathaniel Bliss, Edward Charles Titchmarsh, Ioan James, Peter Turner, William Esson, Joseph Betts, Stephen Peter Rigaud, John Smith. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 113. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, OM, FRS, FRSE (born 22 April 1929) is a British mathematician, and one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century. He grew up in Sudan and Egypt, and spent most of his academic life at Oxford, Cambridge, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has been President of the Royal Society (19901995), Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (19901997), Chancellor of the University of Leicester (19952005), and President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (20052008). He is currently retired and an honorary professor at the University of Edinburgh. He has had many mathematical collaborations, in particular with Raoul Bott, Friedrich Hirzebruch and Isadore Singer, and his students include Graeme Segal, Nigel Hitchin and Simon Donaldson. With Hirzebruch he founded topological K-theory, a major tool in algebraic topology, that describes the ways in which high dimensional space can be twisted. His best known result is the AtiyahSinger index theorem, proved with Singer in 1963, a fundamental and widely used result which can be used to count the number of independent solutions of many important differential equations. More recently he has worked on topics inspired by theoretical physics, such as instantons and monopoles, which are responsible for some subtle corrections in quantum field theory. He has received many aw...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=20698 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Jean-Pierre Serre, Mikhaïl Gromov, Sathamangalam R. Srinivasa Varadhan, Jacques Tits, Michael Atiyah, John Griggs Thompson, Peter Lax, Lennart Carleson, Isadore Singer. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Jean-Pierre Serre est un mathématicien français né le 15 septembre 1926 à Bages (Pyrénées-Orientales). Il est considéré comme l'un des plus grands mathématiciens du siècle. Il a reçu de nombreuses récompenses pour ses recherches dont la médaille Fields en 1954, faisant de lui le plus jeune récompensé. Il est aussi le premier lauréat du Prix Abel, créé en 2003. Jean-Pierre Serre est né en 1926 à Bages, de parents pharmaciens. Lors de ses études au lycée de Nîmes, il est reçu premier prix de mathématiques au Concours général. En 1945, à l'âge de 19 ans, il entre à l'École normale supérieure de la rue d'Ulm. Après un passage comme chercheur au CNRS, il soutient sa thèse d'Etat à la Sorbonne en 1951 en topologie algébrique sous la direction de Henri Cartan. Il est accepté très jeune au sein du groupe Bourbaki fondé notamment par Henri Cartan et André Weil. Trois ans plus tard (en 1954), à l'âge de 27 ans, Jean-Pierre Serre devient le plus jeune lauréat de la médaille Fields, prix qui, avant la création du prix Abel, était considéré comme l'équivalent du prix Nobel de mathématiques (celui-ci n'existant pas). En 1956, Serre est élu à l'âge de 29 ans professeur au Collège de France (chaire d'algèbre et de géométrie), où il enseigne jusqu'à sa retraite en 1994 alors qu'il enseigne également dans plusieurs universités étrangères, en particulier à l'université de Harvard et à l'Institute for Advanced Study de Princeton (États-Unis). Serre reste dans l'histoire du Collège de France depuis sa création l'un de ...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Kapitel: Jean-Pierre Serre, Jacques Tits, Lennart Carleson, Michael Francis Atiyah, S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, Michail Leonidowitsch Gromow, Peter Lax, John Griggs Thompson, Isadore M. Singer. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, OM, FRS, FRSE (born 22 April 1929) is a British mathematician, and one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century. He grew up in Sudan and Egypt, and spent most of his academic life at Oxford, Cambridge, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has been 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). He is currently retired and an honorary professor at the University of Edinburgh. He has had many mathematical collaborations, in particular with Raoul Bott, Friedrich Hirzebruch and Isadore Singer, and his students include Graeme Segal, Nigel Hitchin and Simon Donaldson. With Hirzebruch he founded topological K-theory, a major tool in algebraic topology, that describes the ways in which high dimensional space can be twisted. His best known result is the Atiyah-Singer index theorem, proved with Singer in 1963, a fundamental and widely used result which can be used to count the number of independent solutions of many important differential equations. More recently he has worked on topics inspired by theoretical physics, such as instantons and monopoles, which are responsible for some subtle corrections in quantum field theory. He has received many awards for his research, including the Fields Medal in 1966, the Copley Medal in 1988, and the Abel Prize in 2004. Great Court of Trinity College, Cambridge, where Atiyah was a student and later MasterAtiyah was born in Hampstead, London, to Lebanese writer Edward Atiyah and Scot Jean Atiyah (née Levens). Patrick Atiyah, professor of law, ...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, OM, FRS, FRSE (born 22 April 1929) is a British mathematician, and one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century. He grew up in Sudan and Egypt, and spent most of his academic life at Oxford, Cambridge, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has been 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). He is currently retired and an honorary professor at the University of Edinburgh. ... Read more

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