Miles Reid

Miles Reid
Miles Reid
Born	Miles Anthony Reid; 30 January 1948 (age 76); Hoddesdon, England
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Awards	Fellow of the Royal Society (2002); Berwick Prize (2006); Pólya Prize (2014);
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Christ's College, Cambridge; University of Warwick;
Thesis	The Complete Intersection of Two or More Quadratics (1972)
Doctoral advisor	Peter Swinnerton-Dyer; Pierre Deligne;
Doctoral students	Kevin Houston; Nicholas Shepherd-Barron;

|religion = |footnotes = |signature = |website = homepages.warwick.ac.uk/~masda }} Miles Anthony Reid FRS (born 30 January 1948) is a mathematician who works in algebraic geometry. ^[2]

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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^ "Senior Berwick Prize". Prize Winners 2006. LMS. 2006-06-19. Retrieved 2008-10-15.

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[mathgene-1] Miles Reid at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

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[3] "Senior Berwick Prize". Prize Winners 2006. LMS. 2006-06-19. Retrieved 2008-10-15.

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