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    Sir Michael Francis Atiyah (/əˈtiːə/; 22 April 1929 – 11 January 2019) was a British-Lebanese mathematician specialising in geometry. His contributions...
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  • Islamic and Crusades studies Sir Michael Atiyah (1929–2019), British mathematician, brother of Patrick Patrick Atiyah (1931–2018), English barrister and...
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  • In differential geometry, the Atiyah–Singer index theorem, proved by Michael Atiyah and Isadore Singer (1963), states that for an elliptic differential...
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  • interpretations in the sciences".[clarification needed] The tables were turned by Michael Atiyah with his essay "The unreasonable effectiveness of physics in mathematics...
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    of California, Berkeley. Singer is noted for his work with Michael Atiyah, proving the Atiyah–Singer index theorem in 1962, which paved the way for new...
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  • In mathematics, the Atiyah–Bott fixed-point theorem, proven by Michael Atiyah and Raoul Bott in the 1960s, is a general form of the Lefschetz fixed-point...
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    Homology representations of braid groups and her thesis adviser was Sir Michael Atiyah. Lawrence and her father moved to America for Lawrence's first academic...
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  • Alexander Grothendieck. The early work on topological K-theory is due to Michael Atiyah and Friedrich Hirzebruch. Let X be a compact Hausdorff space and k =...
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  • In mathematics, the Atiyah algebroid, or Atiyah sequence, of a principal G {\displaystyle G} -bundle P {\displaystyle P} over a manifold M {\displaystyle...
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  • resolution. The seven problems were officially announced by John Tate and Michael Atiyah during a ceremony held on May 24, 2000 (at the amphithéâtre Marguerite...
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    algebraic geometry Branko Grünbaum (1929–2018) – discrete geometry Michael Atiyah (1929–2019) Lev Semenovich Pontryagin (1908–1988) Geoffrey Colin Shephard...
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  • four children, including the renowned mathematician, Sir Michael Atiyah, and Patrick Atiyah, an academic and professor of law. He served as secretary...
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  • Armand Borel, Shiing-Shen Chern, Kunihiko Kodaira, Donald Spencer, Michael Atiyah, Isadore Singer, Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar, Michel Kervaire, Marcel...
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    International Mathematical Union in 1990. In a written address to the ICM, Michael Atiyah said of Witten: Although he is definitely a physicist (as his list of...
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  • mathematics, the Atiyah–Hirzebruch spectral sequence is a spectral sequence for calculating generalized cohomology, introduced by Michael Atiyah and Friedrich...
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  • Atiyah was born on 5 March 1931. He was a son of the Lebanese writer Edward Atiyah and his Scottish wife Jean. The mathematician Sir Michael Atiyah was...
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    Teichmüller space; the Atiyah–Hitchin monopole metric; the Atiyah–Hitchin–Singer theorem; the ADHM construction of instantons (of Michael Atiyah, Vladimir Drinfeld...
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    from the original on 30 August 2014. Retrieved 17 August 2014. "Sir Michael F. Atiyah : The Abel Prize" (PDF). Upcommons.upc.edu (in Spanish). Archived...
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    Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-0-387-90244-9, MR 0463157 Michael Atiyah (3 April 2014). Michael Atiyah Collected Works: Volume 7: 2002–2013. Oxford University...
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  • generalized form of the Cayley–Hamilton theorem, an observation made by Michael Atiyah (1969). The special case of the noncommutative version of the lemma...
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    universal mathematicians of the nineteenth century", Poincaré and Hilbert. Michael Atiyah, in particular, has commented that whenever he examined a mathematical...
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     297. Atiyah, Michael. "Book Review: Bourbaki, A Secret Society of Mathematicians and The Artist and the Mathematician, Reviewed by Michael Atiyah" (PDF)...
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  • 1944) 2018 – Edgar Ray Killen, American murderer (b. 1925) 2019 – Michael Atiyah, British-Lebanese mathematician (b. 1929) 2023 – Carole Cook, American...
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    went on to write the foundational papers on topological K-theory with Michael Atiyah, and collaborated with Armand Borel on the theory of characteristic...
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  • moved to the United States, where he went to work for two years with Michael Atiyah at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He received...
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  • Academy of Science and Letters. Retrieved 21 July 2022. "2004: Sir Michael Francis Atiyah and Isadore M. Singer". The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters...
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  • graded-commutative algebra on certain homogeneous generators. The original work of Michael Atiyah and Raoul Bott concerned the integral cohomology ring of Bun G ⁡ ( X...
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  • homology and cohomology complex cobordism theories were introduced by Michael Atiyah (1961) using the Thom spectrum. The complex bordism M U ∗ ( X ) {\displaystyle...
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    Worcester College, Oxford, at first under Nigel Hitchin and later under Michael Atiyah's supervision. Still a postgraduate student, Donaldson proved in 1982...
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    functions. This led to his role as collaborator over many years with Michael Atiyah, initially via the part played by periodicity in K-theory. Bott made...
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