Miles Reid

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Miles Reid (born January 30, 1948 in Hoddesdon ) is a British mathematician who deals with algebraic geometry.

Miles Reid 2006

Reid studied at Cambridge University , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1969 and his doctorate with Pierre Deligne and Peter Swinnerton-Dyer in 1972 (The complete intersection of two or more quadrics) and his master's degree in 1973. During this time he was a research mathematician at Cambridge (Christ's College) with Peter Swinnerton-Dyer and at IHES with Pierre Deligne, where he also received his doctorate. As a post-doc he also spent two years in Russia at Lomonossow University (and later almost a year in Minsk), one year at Tokyo University (1976/77) and at Erlangen University. In 1978 he became a lecturer at the University of Warwick , 1989 reader and 1992 professor. Among other things, he was visiting scholar at Kyoto University, Nagoya University, Hong Kong, the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, the Steklow Institute and the University of Utah . From 2009 to 2012 he is also a professor in Seoul (Sogang University). He is the director of the Warwick Mathematics Research Center.

Reid worked in particular on algebraic three-dimensional varieties. In 1988 he received the Senior Berwick Prize of the London Mathematical Society for Fano 3-fold hypersurfaces with Alessio Corti and Alexander Puklihkov , in which they generalize a result by Juri Manin and Iskovskikh from 1971 about the non-rationality of a smooth three-dimensional quartic and the non -Show the rationality of all three-dimensional Fano varieties. In 2004 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society . In 2002 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing ( Update on 3-fold ). In 2014 he received the Pólya Prize of the London Mathematical Society for work on higher dimensional algebraic varieties, especially canonical singularities, MacKay correspondence, detailed investigation of 3-dimensional flips, the structure of Gorenstein rings and for review articles.

He also translated textbooks from Russian (including Basic algebraic geometry by Igor Schafarewitsch ) and Japanese.

Fonts

  • Undergraduate algebraic geometry, Cambridge University Press 1988
  • Undergraduate commutative algebra, Cambridge University Press 1995
  • with Balazs Szendroi: Geometry and topology, Cambridge University Press 2007
  • Update on 3-folds, ICM 2002

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ↑ in Corti, Reid (editor) Explicit birational geometry of 3-folds , London Math. Society Lecturenotes, Cambridge University Press 2000, online here
  3. ↑ LMS Newsletter July 2014
personal data
SURNAME Reid, Miles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reid, Miles A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Hoddesdon