Michael Atiyah

Sir Michael Atiyah
Sir Michael Atiyah;
	Michael Atiyah in 2007
Personal details
Born	Michael Francis Atiyah; 22 April 1929; Hampstead, London, England
Died	11 January 2019 (aged 89); Edinburgh, Scotland
Nationality	British
Known for	Atiyah–Singer index theorem; Atiyah–Segal completion theorem
Awards	Berwick Prize (1961); Fields Medal (1966); Royal Medal (1968); De Morgan Medal (1980); Copley Medal (1988); Abel Prize (2004);
Education	Victoria College, Alexandria; Manchester Grammar School;
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, PhD)
	Scientific career
Institutions	University of Oxford - New College, Oxford and St Catherine's College, Oxford; Institute for Advanced Study; University of Leicester; University of Edinburgh; Pembroke College, Cambridge;
Thesis	Some Applications of Topological Methods in Algebraic Geometry (1955)
Doctoral students	Simon Donaldson; K. David Elworthy; Nigel Hitchin; Lisa Jeffrey; Frances Kirwan; Peter Kronheimer; Ruth Lawrence; George Lusztig; Ian R. Porteous; Graeme Segal; David O. Tall;
Other notable students	Edward Witten

Sir Michael Francis Atiyah ^[2] (/əˈtiːə/; 22 April 1929 – 11 January 2019) was an English mathematician specialising in geometry.^[3] He won the Fields Medal in 1966 and the Abel Prize in 2004.

He was 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). From 1997 until his death, he was an honorary professor at the University of Edinburgh.^[4] During 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians, Atiyah said he had a proof for Riemann hypothesis.^[5]^[6]

Atiyah died on 11 January 2019 in Edinburgh, Scotland at the age of 89.^[7]

Michael Atiyah Media

Great Court of Trinity College, Cambridge, where Atiyah was a student and later Master
The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where Atiyah was professor from 1969 to 1972
The old Mathematical Institute (now the Department of Statistics) in Oxford, where Atiyah supervised many of his students
A twisted cubic curve, the subject of Atiyah's first paper
A Möbius band is the simplest non-trivial example of a vector bundle.
Michael Atiyah and Friedrich Hirzebruch (right), the creators of K-theory
Isadore Singer (in 1977), who worked with Atiyah on index theory
Atiyah's former student Graeme Segal (in 1982), who worked with Atiyah on equivariant K-theory
Raoul Bott, who worked with Atiyah on fixed point formulas and several other topics
The lacunas discussed by Petrovsky, Atiyah, Bott and Gårding are similar to the spaces between shockwaves of a supersonic object.