Martin Bridson

Martin Bridson
FRS MAE
Martin Bridson in 2016
Born
Martin Robert Bridson

(1964-10-22) 22 October 1964 (age 62)
Douglas, Isle of Man
Education
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsGeometric group theory
Workplaces
ThesisGeodesics and Curvature in Metric Simplicial Complexes (1991)
Karen Vogtmann
Doctoral students
Daniel Wise
Websitepeople.maths.ox.ac.uk/bridson

Martin Robert Bridson FRS MAE (born 22 October 1964) is a mathematician and Whitehead professor of pure mathematics at the University of Oxford and the president of the Clay Mathematics Institute. He previously served as the head of the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford. He is a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford and an honorary fellow of Hertford College, Oxford. Specializing in geometry, topology and group theory, Bridson is best known for his work in geometric group theory.

Education and early life

Bridson at Oberwolfach in 2013

Bridson is a native of the Isle of Man. He was educated at St Ninian's High School, Douglas, and the University of Oxford where he was an undergraduate student at Hertford College, Oxford receiving a Master of Arts (MA) degree in 1986. He moved to Cornell University for postgraduate study, gaining a Master of Science (MSc) degree in 1988 followed by a PhD in 1991 with a thesis supervised by Karen Vogtmann on geodesics and curvature in metric simplicial complexes.

Career and research

Bridson served as an assistant professor at Princeton University until 1996, was twice a visiting professor at the University of Geneva (1992 and 2006), and was Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College London from 2002 to 2007. From 1993 to 2002 he served as a tutorial fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford, and Reader (1996) then Professor of Topology (2000) at the University of Oxford. He is a Supernumerary Fellow of Pembroke College. In 2016, Bridson became only the second Manx person to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), after Edward Forbes. In 2020, he was elected a Member of Academia Europaea (MAE). With André Haefliger, he won the 2020 Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition for their book Metric Spaces of Non-positive Curvature, published in 1999.

Honours and awards

Bridson's awards and honours include

References

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  2. 1 2 Martin Bridson publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Martin Bridson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Edit this at Wikidata
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  5. ↑ Martin Bridson publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  6. ↑ "WEDDINGS;Julie A. Lynch, Martin R. Bridson". The New York Times. 31 December 1995.
  7. ↑ "Bridson Martin - Magdalen College". Archived from the original on 23 July 2012. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
  8. ↑ Bridson, Martin Robert (1991). Geodesics and Curvature in Metric Simplicial Complexes (PhD thesis). Cornell University. OCLC 64067761. ProQuest 9203978.
  9. ↑ Bridson, Martin. "Martin R. Bridson". people.maths.ox.ac.uk.
  10. ↑ "Martin Bridson and Endre Suli elected to Academia Europaea". maths.ox.ac.uk. 31 July 2020. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
  11. ↑ Metric Spaces of Non-positive Curvature [ISBN missing] Springer-Verlag
  12. ↑ "Bridson". ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers. International Mathematical Union. Retrieved 25 December 2025.
  13. ↑ "List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society". ams.org.
  14. ↑ Anon (2016). "Martin Bridson biography". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society.
  15. ↑ "Leroy P Steele Prize". ams.org.

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