Miles Reid
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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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Website | homepages |
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 Trinity College, 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 Aleksandr Pukhlikov, "Fano 3-fold hypersurfaces", which made a big advance in the study of 3-dimensional algebraic varieties.[3]
Personal life
Reid speaks Japanese and Russian and has given lectures in Japanese.
Bibliography
His most famous book is
- Undergraduate Algebraic Geometry, Cambridge University Press 1988 (ISBN 978-0521356626) doi:10.1017/CBO9781139163699
Other books
- Undergraduate commutative algebra, Cambridge University Press 1995, doi:10.1017/CBO9781139172721
- with Balazs Szendroi: Geometry and topology, Cambridge University Press 2007
His most famous translation is the two volume work by Shafarevich
- Basic Algebraic Geometry 1 (ISBN 978-3642379550)
- Basic Algebraic Geometry 2 (ISBN 978-3642380099)
References
- ^ a b c Miles Reid at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Bridgeland, T.; King, A.; Reid, M. (2001). "The McKay correspondence as an equivalence of derived categories". Journal of the American Mathematical Society. 14 (3): 535. doi:10.1090/S0894-0347-01-00368-X.
- ^ "Senior Berwick Prize". Prize Winners 2006. LMS. 19 June 2006. Archived from the original on 29 June 2009. Retrieved 15 October 2008.
- 1948 births
- Living people
- People from Hoddesdon
- 20th-century mathematicians
- 21st-century mathematicians
- English mathematicians
- Algebraic geometers
- Fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- Academics of the University of Warwick
- Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
- British mathematician stubs