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Geometric Group Theory

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Name
  
Martin Bridson


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Alma mater
  
Ph.D., 1991 Cornell University

Doctoral students
  
Owen Cotton-Barratt, Will Dison, Dawid Kielak, Adam Piggott, Tim Riley, Claas Roever, Michael Tweedale, Ric Wade, Henry Wilton, Daniel Wise

Notable awards
  
PCMI Clay ScholarRS Wolfson Research Merit AwardWhitehead Prize (1999)EPSRC Senior FellowshipAbel LecturerMarker LecturerForder Lecturer

Books
  
Metric Spaces of Non-Positive Curvature

Institutions
  

Martin bridson profinite isomorphism problems


Martin Robert Bridson FRS is a Manx mathematician. He is the Whitehead Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College. Specializing in geometry, topology and group theory, Bridson is best known for his work in Geometric Group Theory. He was an Invited Lecturer at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2006.

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Martin bridson fixed point theorems and rigidity


Education and early life

Bridson is a native of the Isle of Man. and was educated at St Ninian's High School, Douglas, Isle of Man, Hertford College, Oxford and Cornell University, receiving an MA from Oxford (1986), and an MS (1988) and PhD (1991) from Cornell.

Career and research

He has previously taught at Princeton University, the University of Geneva and Imperial College London

Honours and awards

  • In 2016 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
  • In 2014 he became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
  • 1999 Whitehead Prize
  • References

    Martin Bridson Wikipedia


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