Peter Swinnerton-Dyer
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Peter Swinnerton-Dyer was a British mathematician best known for co-formulating the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, one of the central problems in number theory.
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British person
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human ⓘ mathematician ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| affiliation |
St Catharine's College, Cambridge
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Trinity College, Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| almaMater | University of Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| areaOfResearch |
L-functions
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arithmetic geometry ⓘ elliptic curves ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
De Morgan Medal
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Fellow of the Royal Society NERFINISHED ⓘ Senior Whitehead Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ Sylvester Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | British ⓘ |
| coAuthor | Bryan Birch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
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United Kingdom ⓘ
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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| dateOfBirth | 1927-08-02 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2018-12-26 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Trinity College, Cambridge ⓘ |
| employer |
Cambridge University
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surface form:
University of Cambridge
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| familyName | Swinnerton-Dyer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
mathematics
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number theory ⓘ |
| fullName | Sir Henry Peter Francis Swinnerton-Dyer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName |
Henry
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Peter ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline | pure mathematics ⓘ |
| honorificSuffix | FRS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | research in modern number theory ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-formulating the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| livedIn | Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Royal Society ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableIdea | use of computational methods in number theory ⓘ |
| notableStudent | John H. Coates NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Winchester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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Chairman of the Universities Funding Council (UK)
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Chairman of the University Grants Committee (UK) ⓘ Master of St Catharine's College, Cambridge ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| title | Sir ⓘ |
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