Nigel Hitchin
Nigel Hitchin | |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Oxford University of Warwick University of Cambridge |
Doctoral advisor | Brian Steer Michael Atiyah |
Doctoral students | Simon Donaldson Oscar Garcia Prada Tamás Hausel Jacques Hurtubise[1] |
Nigel James Hitchin FRS (born 2 August 1946) is a British mathematician working in the fields of differential geometry, gauge theory, algebraic geometry, and mathematical physics. He is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of Oxford.
Academic career
Hitchin attended
Amongst his notable discoveries are the
In his article[4] on generalized Calabi–Yau manifolds, he introduced the notion of generalized complex manifolds, providing a single structure that incorporates, as examples, Poisson manifolds, symplectic manifolds and complex manifolds. These have found wide applications as the geometries of flux compactifications in string theory and also in topological string theory.
In the span of his career, Hitchin has supervised 37 research students, including Simon Donaldson (part-supervised with Atiyah).
Until 2013 Nigel Hitchin served as the managing editor of the journal Mathematische Annalen.
Honours and awards
In 1991 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.[5]
In 2003 he was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Science) from the University of Bath.
Hitchin was elected as an
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[6] In 2014 he was awarded another Honorary Degree (Doctor of Science) from the University of Warwick. In 2016 he received the Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences.[7]
References
- ^ Nigel James Hitchin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
Oscar Garcia Prada - ^ a b Fellows' News, Jesus College Record (1998/9) (p.12)
- MR 0887284.
- ^ "fellows". Royal Society. Retrieved 20 November 2010.
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
- ^ "Shaw Prize 2016". Archived from the original on 19 October 2016. Retrieved 31 May 2016.