Peter Swinnerton-Dyer
British mathematician (1927–2018) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sir Henry Peter Francis Swinnerton-Dyer, 16th Baronet, KBE, FRS (2 August 1927 – 26 December 2018) was an English mathematician specialising in number theory at the University of Cambridge. As a mathematician he was best known for his part in the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture relating algebraic properties of elliptic curves to special values of L-functions, which was developed with Bryan Birch during the first half of the 1960s with the help of machine computation, and for his work on the Titan operating system.[2]
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Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer | |
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Born | Henry Peter Francis Swinnerton-Dyer (1927-08-02)2 August 1927 |
Died | 26 December 2018(2018-12-26) (aged 91) |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
Known for | Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture |
Awards | Pólya Prize (2006) Sylvester Medal (2006) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Cambridge |
Doctoral advisors | John Littlewood André Weil |
Doctoral students | Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène Miles Reid |
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