James Hirschfeld
James William Peter Hirschfeld (* 1940 ) is a British mathematician who studies combinatorial geometry and geometry over finite bodies .
Hirschfeld received his doctorate in 1966 at the University of Edinburgh under William Leonard Edge (The geometry of cubic surfaces, and Grace's extension of the double-six, over finite fields). He is a professor at the University of Sussex .
He deals with finite geometries, especially projective geometries over finite bodies, and wrote three monographs on them.
In 2014 he received the Euler Medal .
Fonts (selection)
- Projective geometries over finite fields, Oxford University Press 1979, 2nd edition, Oxford, Clarendon Press 1998
- Finite projective spaces of three dimensions, Oxford University Press 1986
- with Joseph Thas : General Galois geometries, Oxford University Press 1991
- with Gábor Korchmáros , F. Torres: Algebraic curves over a finite field, Princeton University Press, 2008
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ James Hirschfeld in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hirschfeld, James |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hirschfeld, James William Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1940 |