Richard S. Ward

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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

  1. ↑ Mathematics Genealogy Projec .
  2. ^ Ward On self dual gauge fields , Physics Letters A, Vol. 61, 1977, pp. 61-62.
  3. ↑ Atiyah, Ward Instantons and algebraic geometry , Communications in Mathematical Physics, Volume 55, 1977, pp. 117-124.
personal data
SURNAME Ward, Richard S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ward, Richard Samuel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British physicist and mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH 1951