Martin J. Taylor
| Martin J. Taylor | |
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Martin J. Taylor (right)
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| Born |
18 February 1952 Leicester |
| Residence | Bramhall, Cheshire |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions |
University of Cambridge UMIST University of Manchester Merton College, Oxford |
| Alma mater |
Pembroke College, Oxford King's College London |
| Doctoral advisor | Albrecht Fröhlich |
| Doctoral students |
Nigel Byott Shih-Ping Chan Robin Chapman Erik Pickett |
| Notable awards |
Whitehead Prize (1982) Adams Prize (1983) FRS (1996) Knight Bachelor (2009) |
Sir Martin John Taylor, FRS (born 18 February 1952) is a British mathematician and academic. He was professor of pure mathematics at the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester and, prior to its formation and merger, UMIST where he was appointed to a chair after moving from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1986. On 5 November 2009 he was elected Warden of Merton College, Oxford, and took office on 2 October 2010.
Taylor was born in Leicester in 1952 and educated at Wyggeston Grammar School. He gained a first class degree from Pembroke College, Oxford in 1973, and a Ph.D. from King's College London with a thesis entitled Galois module structure of the ring of integers of l-extensions in 1976 under the supervision of Albrecht Fröhlich.
His early research concerned various properties and structures of algebraic numbers. In 1981 he proved the Fröhlich conjecture relating the symmetries of algebraic integers to the behaviour of certain analytic functions called Artin L-functions. In recent years his research has led him to study various aspects of arithmetic geometry: in particular, he and his collaborators have demonstrated how geometric properties of zeros of integral polynomials in many variables can be determined by the behaviour of associated L-functions.
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