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Simon Donaldson
2 works on this site · 2 co-authors
Also appears as S.K. Donaldson
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English mathematician. Read the article
- Born
- 1957, Cambridge, England
- Studied at
- Pembroke College, Cambridge (BA); Worcester College, Oxford (DPhil)
- Doctoral advisors
- Michael Atiyah; Nigel Hitchin
- Doctoral students
- Oscar Garcia Prada; Dominic Joyce; Dieter Kotschick; Graham Nelson; Paul Seidel; Ivan Smith and 3 more
- Known for
- Topology of smooth (differentiable) four-dimensional manifolds; Donaldson theory; Donaldson theorem; Donaldson invariant; Donaldson–Thomas theory; Donaldson–Uhlenbeck–Yau theorem and 3 more
- Prizes and honours
- Junior Whitehead Prize (1985); Fields Medal (1986); Royal Medal (1992); Crafoord Prize (1994); Pólya Prize (1999); King Faisal International Prize (2006); Nemmers Prize in Mathematics (2008); Shaw Prize in Mathematics (2009) and 3 more
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