Michael Atiyah

Sir Michael Atiyah

OM FRS FRSE FMedSci FAA FREng
Michael Atiyah in 2007
Personal details
Born
Michael Francis Atiyah

(1929-04-22)22 April 1929
Hampstead, London, England
Died11 January 2019(2019-01-11) (aged 89)
Edinburgh, Scotland
NationalityBritish
Known forAtiyah–Singer index theorem
Atiyah–Segal completion theorem
Awards
Education
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Scientific career
Institutions
ThesisSome Applications of Topological Methods in Algebraic Geometry (1955)
Doctoral advisorW. V. D. Hodge
Doctoral students
Other notable studentsEdward Witten

Sir Michael Francis Atiyah OM FRS FRSE FMedSci FAA FREng (/əˈtiːə/; 22 April 1929 – 11 January 2019) was an English mathematician specialising in geometry. He won the Fields Medal in 1966 and the Abel Prize in 2004.

He was 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). From 1997 until his death, he was an honorary professor at the University of Edinburgh. During 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians, Atiyah said he had a proof for Riemann hypothesis.

He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1988.

Atiyah died on 11 January 2019 in Edinburgh, Scotland at the age of 89.

References

  1. ↑ Hitchin, Nigel J. (1972). Differentiable manifolds : the space of harmonic spinors (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 500473357. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.459281 – via bodleian.ox.ac.uk.[permanent dead link]
  2. ↑ "List of Fellows". Archived from the original on 2016-06-08. Retrieved 2018-05-20.
  3. ↑ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Michael Atiyah", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
  4. ↑ "Atiyah's CV" (PDF).
  5. ↑ "La supuesta demostración de Michael Atiyah de la hipótesis de Riemann". La Ciencia de la Mula Francis (in Spanish). 2018-09-30. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
  6. ↑ "Atiyah Riemann Hypothesis proof: final thoughts". The Aperiodical. 2018-09-28. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
  7. ↑ "Michael Atiyah". Academia Europaea. Archived from the original on 28 March 2019.
  8. ↑ A tribute to former President of the Royal Society Sir Michael Atiyah OM FRS (1929 - 2019)

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