Phillip Griffiths

Not to be confused with Phillip Griffith, another American mathematician also working in algebraic geometry.

For those of a similar name, see Philip Griffiths (disambiguation).

Phillip Griffiths
Phillip Griffiths in 2008 (photo from MFO)
Born	(1938-10-18) October 18, 1938 Raleigh, North Carolina
Nationality	American
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley Princeton University Harvard University Duke University
Alma mater	Princeton University Wake Forest College
Doctoral advisor	Donald C. Spencer
Doctoral students	Howard Garland Joe Harris Wilfried Schmid

Phillip Augustus Griffiths (born October 18, 1938) is an American mathematician, known for his work in the field of geometry, and in particular for the complex manifold approach to algebraic geometry. He was a major developer in particular of the theory of variation of Hodge structure in Hodge theory and moduli theory.

Professional career

He received his B.S. from Wake Forest College in 1959 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1962 working under Donald Spencer. Since then, he has held positions at Berkeley (1962–1967), Princeton (1967–1972), Harvard University (1972–1983), and Duke University (1983–1991). From 1991 to 2003 he was the Director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey. He has published on algebraic geometry, differential geometry, geometric function theory, and the geometry of partial differential equations.

Griffiths serves as the Chair of the Science Initiative Group. He is co-author, with Joe Harris, of Principles of Algebraic Geometry, a well-regarded textbook on complex algebraic geometry.

Awards and honors

In 2008 he was awarded the Wolf Prize (jointly with Deligne and Mumford). In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Selected publications

• Introduction to Algebraic Curves, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1989, ISBN 0821845306
• Topics in Transcendental Algebraic Geometry, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1984, ISBN 0691083355
• Exterior Differential Systems and the Calculus of Variations, Birkhäuser, Boston, 1983, ISBN 3764331038
• Rational Homotopy Theory and Differential Forms, with John W Morgan, Birkhäuser, Boston, 1981, ISBN 3764330414
• Principles of Algebraic Geometry, with Joe Harris, Wiley, New York, 1978, ISBN 0471327921
• Entire Holomorphic Mappings in One and Several Complex Variables, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1976, ISBN 0691081719­­

External links

• Phillip Griffiths at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Science Initiative Group homepage