Richard S. Ward
Richard Samuel Ward (* 1951 ) is a British mathematical physicist and mathematician .
Ward received his PhD from the University of Oxford in 1977 with Roger Penrose . and is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Durham .
He worked with Penrose on his Twistor theory and generally exactly integrable systems in field theory, for example monopoles, instantons, skyrmions and topological solitons. He developed a nonlinear generalization of the Penrose transformation in the Twistor theory, which he used with Michael Atiyah to describe instantons by vector bundles over three-dimensional complex projective space.
Ward became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2005 . In 1989 he received the Whitehead Prize .
Fonts
- with Raymond O. Wells Twistor geometry and field theory , Cambridge University Press 1990
- with Nigel Hitchin , Graeme Segal Integrable systems: twistors, loop groups, and Riemann surfaces , Oxford, Clarendon Press 1999
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mathematics Genealogy Projec .
- ^ Ward On self dual gauge fields , Physics Letters A, Vol. 61, 1977, pp. 61-62.
- ↑ Atiyah, Ward Instantons and algebraic geometry , Communications in Mathematical Physics, Volume 55, 1977, pp. 117-124.
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SURNAME | Ward, Richard S. |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ward, Richard Samuel (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British physicist and mathematician |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1951 |