Nationality British | Role Mathematician Name Peter Swinnerton-Dyer Awards Polya Prize | |
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Doctoral students Mehran BastiAndreas BenderAndrew BremnerMartin BrightJean-Louis Colliot-TheleneMiles ReidWalter StothersBarry Tennison Books A brief guide to algebraic, Analytic theory of Abelian v, Arithmetic Geometry: Lectures Similar People Jean‑Louis Colliot‑Thelene, Andre Weil, Miles Reid, John Edensor Littlewood, Pierre Deligne | ||
Residence Thriplow, United Kingdom | ||
Interview of peter swinnerton dyer 2008
Sir Henry Peter Francis Swinnerton-Dyer, 16th Baronet (born 2 August 1927), commonly known as Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, is an English mathematician specialising in number theory at University of Cambridge. As a mathematician he is best known for his part in the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture relating algebraic properties of elliptic curves to special values of L-functions, which was developed with Bryan Birch during the first half of the 1960s with the help of machine computation, and for his work on the Titan operating system.
Contents
- Interview of peter swinnerton dyer 2008
- Peter swinnerton dyer talking a bit about the bsd conjecture
- Biography
- Books
- References
Peter swinnerton dyer talking a bit about the bsd conjecture
Biography
Swinnerton-Dyer is the son of Sir Leonard Schroeder Swinnerton Dyer, 15th Baronet, and his wife Barbara, daughter of Hereward Brackenbury. He was a Fellow of Trinity College, Master of St Catharine's College and vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1979 to 1983. In 1983 he was made an Honorary Fellow of St Catharine's and Chairman of the University Grants Committee and then from 1989, Chief Executive of the Universities Funding Council. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1967 and was a KBE in 1987. In 2006 he was awarded the Sylvester Medal.
Swinnerton-Dyer was, in his younger days, an international bridge player, representing the British team twice in the European Open teams championship. In 1953 at Helsinki he was partnered by Dimmie Fleming (the only occasion a woman played on the British Open team): the team came second out of fifteen teams. In 1962 he was partnered by Ken Barbour; the team came fourth out of twelve teams at Beirut. In 1981, he was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Science) by the University of Bath.