University of Leicester - People Associated with the University of Leicester, Michael Atiyah, David Attenborough, Richard Attenborough (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 47. Chapters: People associated with the University of Leicester, Michael Atiyah, David Attenborough, Richard Attenborough, Leicester Medical School, Lord President of the Council, James Stirling, Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln, EMMAN, Sue Townsend, Tom McKillop, Len Garrison, George Porter, Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, Charles Wilson, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Chris d'Lacey, Denys Lasdun, University of Leicester Students' Union, Super Dual Auroral Radar Network, National Space Centre, Attenborough Building, Christopher Hibbert, Peter Williams, Media Archive for Central England, Frederick Attenborough, The Ripple, Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust Studies, Maurice Shock, Peter Clark, University of Leicester Botanic Garden, Peer English, Manor Road Athletics Track. Excerpt: Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, OM, FRS, FRSE (born 22 April 1929) is a British mathematician working in geometry. Atiyah grew up in Sudan and Egypt but spent most of his academic life in the United Kingdom at Oxford and Cambridge, and in the United States at the Institute for Advanced Study. He has been president of the Royal Society (1990-1995), master of Trinity College, Cambridge (1990-1997), chancellor of the University of Leicester (1995-2005), and president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2005-2008). He is currently retired, and is an honorary professor at the University of Edinburgh. Atiyah's mathematical collaborators include Raoul Bott, Friedrich Hirzebruch and Isadore Singer, and his students include Graeme Segal, Nigel Hitchin and Simon Donaldson. Together with Hirzebruch, he laid the foundations for topological K-theory, an important tool in algebraic topology, which, informally speaking, describes ways in which spaces can be twisted. His best known result, the Atiyah-Singer index theorem, was proved with Singer in 1963 and is widely u...