Peter Swinnerton-Dyer Scientist

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.

Personal facts

Peter Swinnerton-Dyer
Birth dateAugust 02, 1927
Birth place
Northumberland , Ponteland
Nationality
United Kingdom
Residence
England , Thriplow
Education
University of Cambridge
Known for
Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture

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Scientist

awards
Pólya Prize (LMS)
Sylvester Medal
doctoral advisor
doctoral student
Andreas Bender
Andrew Bremner
Barry Tennison
Martin Bright (mathematician)
Mehran Basti
Walter Stothers
Field of study
Mathematics

Peter Swinnerton-Dyer on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.alanmacfarlane.com/ancestors/swinnerton-dyer.htm
  2. http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/people/h.p.f.swinnerton-dyer
  3. http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/~miles/HPFSD75