Martin Bridson

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Martin Bridson

Martin R. Bridson (* 1964 ) is a British mathematician who studies geometric group theory. He is the Whitehead Professor of Pure Mathematics at Oxford University and a Fellow of Magdalen College . Specializing in geometry, topology, and group theory, Martin Bridson is best known for his contributions to geometric group theory. He was the invited speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Madrid in 2006 and was awarded the Whitehead Prize .

Bridson attended Hertford College, Oxford, and Cornell University . He received an MA from Oxford University (1986) and an MS (1988) and PhD (1991) from Cornell University. Karen Vogtmann supervised his doctoral thesis . Daniel Wise is one of his PhD students . Before going to Oxford he worked at Princeton University , Geneva University and Imperial College London . In 2016 he was elected a member of the Royal Society and in 2020 a member of the Academia Europaea .

Bridson was born and raised on the Isle of Man .

Fonts (selection)

  • with André Haefliger : Metric spaces of non-positive curvature. Basic Teachings of Mathematical Sciences, 319. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1999. ISBN 3-540-64324-9
  • Geodesics and curvature in metric simplicial complexes. Group theory from a geometrical viewpoint (Trieste, 1990), 373-463, World Sci. Publ., River Edge, NJ, 1991. pdf
  • with Alonso: Semihyperbolic groups. Proc. London Math. Soc. (3) 70 (1995) no. 1, 56-114.
  • with barley: The optimal isoperimetric inequality for torus bundles over the circle. Quart. J. Math. Oxford Ser. (2) 47 (1996), no. 185, 1-23.
  • with Brady: There is only one gap in the isoperimetric spectrum. Geom. Funct. Anal. 10 (2000), no. 5, 1053-1070.
  • with Fritz Grunewald : Grothendieck's problems concerning profinite completions and representations of groups. Ann. of Math. (2) 160 (2004) no. 1, 359-373.
  • Non-positive curvature and complexity for finitely presented groups. International Congress of Mathematicians. Vol. II, 961-987, Eur. Math. Soc., Zurich, 2006. pdf
  • with Howie, Miller, Short: Subgroups of direct products of limit groups. Ann. of Math. (2) 170 (2009), no. 3, 1447-1467.

Individual evidence

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  3. ↑ http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=24021
  4. ↑ http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/bridson/
  5. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/31/style/weddings-julie-a-lynch-martin-r-bridson.html
personal data
SURNAME Bridson, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bridson, Martin R.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH 1964