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Simon Donaldson
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English mathematician
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- Works
- 9
Top works
- Riemann Surfaces
- Collected Works
- Selected Papers from the Journal of Differential Geometry 1967-2017, Volume 3
- Selected Papers from the Journal of Differential Geometry 1967-2017, Volume 4
- Selected Papers from the Journal of Differential Geometry 1967-2017, 5 Volume Set
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Key facts
- Born
- Simon Kirwan Donaldson , ( 1957-08-20 ) 20 August 1957 (age 68) , Cambridge , England
- Alma mater
- Pembroke College, Cambridge ( BA ), Worcester College, Oxford ( DPhil )
- Known for
- Topology of smooth (differentiable) four-dimensional manifolds , Donaldson theory , Donaldson theorem , Donaldson–Thomas theory , Donaldson–Uhlenbeck–Yau theorem , K-stability , K-stability of Fano varieties , Yau–Tian–Donaldson conjecture
- Fields
- Topology
- Institutions
- Imperial College London , Stony Brook University , Institute for Advanced Study , Stanford University , University of Oxford
- Thesis
- The Yang–Mills Equations on Kähler Manifolds (1983)
- Doctoral advisor
- Michael Atiyah , Nigel Hitchin
- Doctoral students
- Oscar Garcia Prada , Dominic Joyce , Dieter Kotschick , Graham Nelson , Paul Seidel , Ivan Smith , Gábor Székelyhidi , Richard Thomas , Michael Thaddeus
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- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Donaldson
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Cambridge
- Occupation
- researcher
- Educated at
- University of Oxford
- Employer
- Imperial College London
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- doctorate
- Doctoral advisor
- Nigel Hitchin
- Doctoral student
- Dominic Joyce
- Official website
- www2.imperial.ac.uk/~skdona
- Image
- Simon Donaldson.jpg
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- member of
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- date of birth
- 1957-08-20
- Commons category
- Simon Donaldson
- Erdős number
- 3
- birth name
- Simon Kirwan Donaldson
- name in native language
- Simon Donaldson
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- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
Sir Simon Kirwan Donaldson FRS MAE (born 20 August 1957) is an English mathematician known for his work on the topology of smooth (differentiable) four-dimensional manifolds, Donaldson–Thomas theory, and his contributions to Kähler geometry. He is currently a Professor in Pure Mathematics at Imperial College London. After being a member of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics (SCGP) for a decade, he holds Emeritus Professor status at the SCGP and Stony Brook University, in New York state.
Biography
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