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| Born | Miles Anthony Reid 30 January 1948 |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
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| Thesis | The Complete Intersection of Two or More Quadratics (1972) |
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Education
Reid studied the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos at the University of Cambridge and obtained his Ph.D. in 1973 under the supervision of Peter Swinnerton-Dyer and Pierre Deligne.[1]
Career
Reid was a research fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge from 1973 to 1978. He became a lecturer at the University of Warwick in 1978 and was appointed professor there in 1992. He has written two well known books: Undergraduate Algebraic Geometry and Undergraduate Commutative Algebra.
Awards and honours
Reid was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2002. Reid was awarded the Senior Berwick Prize in 2006 for his paper with Alessio Corti and Alexander Puklihkov, “Fano 3-fold hypersurfaces”, which made a big advance in the study of 3-dimensional algebraic varieties.[3]
Personal life
Reid speaks Japanese and has given lectures in Japanese.
References
- ^ a b c Miles Reid at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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|doi=10.1090/S0894-0347-01-00368-Xinstead. - ^ "Senior Berwick Prize". Prize Winners 2006. LMS. 2006-06-19. Retrieved 2008-10-15.
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