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Michael Atiyah
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British mathematician
Michael Atiyah was a highly influential British mathematician known for his groundbreaking work in geometry and topology. His mathematical discoveries, particularly in areas connecting different fields of mathematics, significantly advanced our understanding of how different areas of math relate to each other and have had lasting impact on the field.
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- Works
- 15
Top works
- Collected Papers of V K Patodi
- Fields Medallists' Lectures, 2nd Edition
- Physics and Mathematics of Strings
- Geometry and Physics of Knots
- Introduction to Commutative Algebra, Student Economy Edition
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Moderated estimation of fold change and dispersion for RNA-seq data with DESeq2
· 2014 · cited 85,293x
- Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles
· 2005 · cited 47,753x
- Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 43,862x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,509x
- Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 38,972x
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Quotes
- “Algebra is the offer made by the devil to the mathematician. The devil says: `I will give you this powerful machine, it will answer any question you like. All you need to do is give me your soul: give up geometry and you will have this marvellous machine.'”
- “My own supervisor, William Hodge, the creator of the fertile theory of harmonic forms, was not a genius like Ramanujan but resembled Lefschetz.”
- “This 'Hodge conjecture' has by now achieved a considerable status, almost on a par with the Riemann hypothesis or the Poincaré conjecture.”
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- Michael Francis Atiyah
- date of birth
- 1929-04-00
- Erdős number
- 4
- date of death
- 2019-01-11
- name in native language
- Michael Atiyah
- birth name
- Michael Francis Atiyah
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- George Beverly Shea
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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 include the Atiyah–Singer index theorem and co-founding topological K-theory. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1966 and the Abel Prize in 2004.
Early life and education