Nicholas Shepherd-Barron

Nicholas Ian "Nick" Shepherd-Barron (born March 17, 1955 ) is a British mathematician who deals with algebraic geometry and number theory.

Shepherd-Barron received his PhD in 1981 under Miles Reid at the University of Warwick ( Some Questions on Singularities in Two and Three Dimensions ). He is Professor of Algebraic Geometry at Cambridge University and Fellow of Trinity College (since 1990).

Shepherd-Barron initially worked in the context of the Mori program (birational classification of three-dimensional algebraic varieties by Shigefumi Mori ), singularities of 3 varieties, and was involved in the program of expanding the classification of algebraic varieties to higher dimensions.

With Richard Taylor he worked on Galois representations in number theory and in 2008 he was involved in a proof of the Sato - Tate conjecture in special cases.

In 2006 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society .

He is the son of the Scottish inventor John Shepherd-Barron (1925-2010), who developed the first ATMs at De La Rue Instruments in the 1960s.

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Individual evidence

1. ^ János Kollár , Shepherd-Barron: Threefolds and deformations of surface singularities , Invent. Math., Vol. 91, 1988, pp. 299-338
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