Phillip Griffiths

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Nationality American Fields Mathematics		Role Mathematician Name Phillip Griffiths

Born October 18, 1938 (age 86) Raleigh, North Carolina ( 1938-10-18 ) Institutions University of California, BerkeleyPrinceton UniversityHarvard UniversityDuke UniversityInstitute for Advanced Study Alma mater Wake Forest College (B.S.) (1959)Princeton University (Ph.D) (1962) Doctoral students Herbert ClemensHoward GarlandJoe HarrisWilfried Schmid Notable awards Chern Medal (2014)Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2014)Wolf Prize (2008)Brouwer Medal (2008)Leroy P. Steele Prize (1971) Education Princeton University (1962), Wake Forest University Awards Chern Medal, Wolf Prize in Mathematics, Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada Books Principles of Algebraic, Rational Homotopy Theory a, Introduction to Algebraic, Differential systems and isom, Mumford‑Tate Groups and Dom Similar People Robert Bryant, John Morgan, Wilfried Schmid, Donald C Spencer, John Hopcroft
Doctoral advisor Donald C. Spencer

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Phillip Augustus Griffiths IV (born October 18, 1938) is an American mathematician, known for his work in the field of geometry, and in particular for the complex manifold approach to algebraic geometry. He was a major developer in particular of the theory of variation of Hodge structure in Hodge theory and moduli theory.

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Professional career

Phillip Griffiths Phillip A Griffiths Institute for Advanced Study

He received his B.S. from Wake Forest College in 1959 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1962 working under Donald Spencer. Since then, he has held positions at Berkeley (1962–1967), Princeton (1967–1972), Harvard University (1972–1983), and Duke University (1983–1991). From 1991 to 2003 he was the Director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey. He has published on algebraic geometry, differential geometry, geometric function theory, and the geometry of partial differential equations.

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Griffiths serves as the Chair of the Science Initiative Group. He is co-author, with Joe Harris, of Principles of Algebraic Geometry, a well-regarded textbook on complex algebraic geometry.

Awards and honors

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In 2008 he was awarded the Wolf Prize (jointly with Deligne and Mumford) and the Brouwer Medal. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. Moreover, in 2014 Griffiths was awarded the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement by the American Mathematical Society. Also in 2014, Griffiths was awarded the Chern Medal for lifetime devotion to mathematics and outstanding achievements.

Articles

"On certain homogeneous complex manifolds". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 48 (5): 780–783. 1962. PMC 220851 . PMID 16590943. doi:10.1073/pnas.48.5.780.

"Some remarks on automorphisms, analytic bundles, and embeddings of complex algebraic varieties". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 49 (6): 817–820. 1963. PMC 300013 . PMID 16591103. doi:10.1073/pnas.49.6.817.

"On the differential geometry of homogeneous vector bundles". Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 109: 1–34. 1963. MR 0162248. doi:10.1090/s0002-9947-1963-0162248-5.

"The residue calculus and some transcendental results in algebraic geometry, I". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 55 (5): 1303–1309. 1966. PMC 224316 . PMID 16591357. doi:10.1073/pnas.55.5.1303.

"The residue calculus and some transcendental results in algebraic geometry, II". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 55 (6): 1392–1395. 1966. PMC 224330 . PMID 16578635. doi:10.1073/pnas.55.6.1392.

"Some results on locally homogeneous complex manifolds". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 56 (2): 413–416. 1966. PMC 224387 . PMID 16591369. doi:10.1073/pnas.56.2.413.

"A transcendental method in algebraic geometry". Actes, Congrès intern. math. 1970 (PDF). Tome 1. pp. 113–119.

"Periods of integrals on algebraic manifolds". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (2): 228–296. 1970. MR 0258824. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1970-12444-2.

with Joe Harris: "A Poncelet theorem in space". Comment. Math. Helvetici. 52: 145–160. 1977. doi:10.1007/bf02567361.

with S. S. Chern: "Abel's Theorem and Webs" (PDF). Jber. d. Dt. Math.-Verein. 80: 13–110. 1978.

"Complex analysis and algebraic geometry". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 (4): 595–626. 1979. MR 532551. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-1979-14640-8.

"Poincaré and algebraic geometry". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 6 (2): 147–159. 1982. MR 640942. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-1982-14967-9.

Books

Introduction to Algebraic Curves, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1989, ISBN 0821845306

Differential Systems and Isometric Embeddings, with Gary R. Jensen, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1987, ISBN 0-691-08429-7

Topics in Transcendental Algebraic Geometry, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1984, ISBN 0691083355

Exterior Differential Systems and the Calculus of Variations, Birkhäuser, Boston, 1983, ISBN 3764331038

Rational Homotopy Theory and Differential Forms, with John W Morgan, Birkhäuser, Boston, 1981, ISBN 3764330414

Principles of Algebraic Geometry, with Joe Harris, Wiley, New York, 1978, ISBN 0471327921

Entire Holomorphic Mappings in One and Several Complex Variables, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1976, ISBN 0691081719

References

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