Authors · for the people on this list
Tools for authors
An author page here is yours to use. Pick any of the 1,687 people with an NP number and see how the page reads in search results, get the links that tie your records together, and trace how you connect to anyone in the field.
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What people see first
Your page in search
The real title and description of your page, as a results list shows them, and the facts it publishes for search engines and AI tools to read. If the name, the spelling or anything else is wrong, write in and it changes on the next build.
Your name, resolved to you
Tie your records together
Search engines decide who is who from pages that point at each other. Each of these is a link from a record you control to your page here. Use what suits you: they are free, and they need no account.
Six degrees, with receipts
How you connect
The shortest chain of joint works between any two people here, every link a real paper or book you can open. Richard S. Hamilton, who introduced Ricci flow, is the natural place to measure from.
Choose a person at the top of the page, and someone to connect them to.
Built from the works collected on this site, mostly since 2021, so a chain elsewhere may well be shorter, and two people who share a name can share a page.
Who taught whom
Academic family
Doctoral advisors up the line and students down it, as far as this site has records, from Wikipedia and checked entries of the Mathematics Genealogy Project. A name without a link is where the records here stop, not where the line does.
Yours to shape
Add to your page
What this page already holds and what you could send. Someone reads every message, and only what you ask to show is published.
Plainly
What actually helps people find your work
No one can promise a search ranking, and anyone who does is selling something. What search engines can act on is a clear, consistent picture of who you are and what you work on. For a mathematician that comes down to a few habits.
- Use one form of your name everywhere. On arXiv, in journals, on your homepage. If you have used more than one, tell us, and your page here will list them all, so that searches for each spelling find you.
- Confirm an ORCID, and list your papers on it. It is how a paper is tied to you and not to someone with your name. Here, an ORCID shows only once its public record lists the paper.
- Keep a homepage you control, and link outwards from it. Link to your ORCID, your arXiv listing, your Google Scholar profile and your page here, and link back to it from each. Pages that agree with each other are what make a person unambiguous.
- Publish structured data on that homepage. A short block (the Your homepage's data option above writes it) states your name, identifiers and fields in the form search engines read. The Schema.org validator will check it.
- Say in words what you work on. Search matches words. "I work on singularities of mean curvature flow" reaches people that a list of titles doesn't. If you'd like a line of your own on your page here, send it.
- Make something people want to link to. Lecture notes, a survey, slides, a list of open problems. The Library recommends such things by name, and a recommendation here links back to the page of the person who wrote it.
Beyond that, read what the site publishes about how these pages are made, and the page for your own topic. Write in if a tool here could do more for you.