Peter Swinnerton-Dyer
| Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, Bt | |
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Peter Swinnerton-Dyer at the workshop
"Explicit methods in number theory" in Oberwolfach, 2007 |
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| Born |
2 August 1927 Ponteland, Northumberland |
| Residence | Thriplow, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Doctoral advisor | John Littlewood and André Weil |
| Doctoral students |
Mehran Basti Andreas Bender Andrew Bremner Martin Bright Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène Miles Reid Walter Stothers Barry Tennison |
| Known for | Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture |
| Notable awards |
Pólya Prize (2006) Sylvester Medal (2006) |
Sir Henry Peter Francis Swinnerton-Dyer, 16th Baronet KBE FRS (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.
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. From 1983 he was 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.
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