Nigel Hitchin Scientist

Nigel James Hitchin FRS (b. 2 August 1946) is a British mathematician working in the fields of differential geometry, algebraic geometry, and mathematical physics.

Personal facts

Nigel Hitchin
Birth dateAugust 02, 1946
Birth place
England , Holbrook Derbyshire
Education
University of Oxford
Known for
Generalized complex structure
Nahm equations
Hitchin–Thorpe inequality
Higgs bundle
Hitchin functional

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Scientist

doctoral advisor
Brian Steer
doctoral student
J%C3%B8rgen Ellegaard Andersen
Jacques Hurtubise (mathematician)
Peter Gothen
Simon Salamon
Yuri Bozhkov
Oscar Garcia-Prada
Field of study
Mathematics

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External resources

  1. http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/hitchin