Michael Atiyah, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Michael Atiyah

British mathematician

Date of Birth: 22-Apr-1929

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 11-Jan-2019

Profession: mathematician, university teacher, topologist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Michael Atiyah

  • Sir Michael Francis Atiyah (; 22 April 1929 – 11 January 2019) was a British-Lebanese mathematician specialising in geometry.Atiyah grew up in Sudan and Egypt but spent most of his academic life in the United Kingdom at University of Oxford and University of Cambridge, and in the United States at the Institute for Advanced Study.
  • He was the President of the Royal Society (1990–1995), founding director of the Isaac Newton Institute (1990–1996), master of Trinity College, Cambridge (1990–1997), chancellor of the University of Leicester (1995–2005), and the President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2005–2008).
  • From 1997 until his death, he was an honorary professor at the University of Edinburgh.Atiyah's mathematical collaborators included Raoul Bott, Friedrich Hirzebruch and Isadore Singer, and his students included Graeme Segal, Nigel Hitchin and Simon Donaldson.
  • Together with Hirzebruch, he laid the foundations for topological K-theory, an important tool in algebraic topology, which, informally speaking, describes ways in which spaces can be twisted.
  • His best known result, the Atiyah–Singer index theorem, was proved with Singer in 1963 and is used in counting the number of independent solutions to differential equations.
  • Some of his more recent work was inspired by theoretical physics, in particular instantons and monopoles, which are responsible for some subtle corrections in quantum field theory.
  • He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1966 and the Abel Prize in 2004.

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