Fields Mathematics | Role Mathematician Name Miles Reid Awards Polya Prize | |
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Institutions Christ's College, CambridgeUniversity of Warwick Thesis The Complete Intersection of Two or More Quadratics (1972) Doctoral advisor Peter Swinnerton-DyerPierre Deligne Doctoral students Kevin HoustonNicholas Shepherd-BarronKarim el Haloui Residence Kenilworth, United Kingdom Books Undergraduate Algebraic Geometry, Undergraduate commutative algebra, Into Colditz, Last on the List Similar People Alessio Corti, Nicholas Shepherd‑Barron, Alexei Skorobogatov, Peter Swinnerton‑Dyer, Pierre Deligne | ||
Education University of Cambridge | ||
Miles reid graded rings and fano 3 folds an introduction to tom and jerry
Miles Anthony Reid FRS (born 30 January 1948) is a mathematician who works in algebraic geometry.
Contents
- Miles reid graded rings and fano 3 folds an introduction to tom and jerry
- Miles Reid Univ of WarwickSogang Univ Basic Algebraic Geometry 1
- Education
- Career
- Awards and honours
- Personal life
- References
Miles Reid (Univ. of Warwick/Sogang Univ.) / Basic Algebraic Geometry 1
Education
Reid studied the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos at Trinity College, Cambridge and obtained his Ph.D. in 1973 under the supervision of Peter Swinnerton-Dyer and Pierre Deligne.
Career
Reid was a research fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge from 1973 to 1978. He became a lecturer at the University of Warwick in 1978 and was appointed professor there in 1992. He has written two well known books: Undergraduate Algebraic Geometry and Undergraduate Commutative Algebra.
Awards and honours
Reid was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2002. Reid was awarded the Senior Berwick Prize in 2006 for his paper with Alessio Corti and Aleksandr Pukhlikov, “Fano 3-fold hypersurfaces”, which made a big advance in the study of 3-dimensional algebraic varieties.
Personal life
Reid speaks Japanese and has given lectures in Japanese.
