Simon Donaldson
Sir Simon Donaldson FRS MAE | |
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Donaldson in 2009 | |
| Born | Simon Kirwan Donaldson 20 August 1957 Cambridge, England |
| Alma mater | Pembroke College, Cambridge (BA) Worcester College, Oxford (DPhil) |
| Known for | Topology of smooth (differentiable) four-dimensional manifolds Donaldson theory Donaldson theorem Donaldson–Thomas theory Donaldson–Uhlenbeck–Yau theorem K-stability K-stability of Fano varieties Yau–Tian–Donaldson conjecture |
| Awards | 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) Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics (2014) Oswald Veblen Prize (2019) Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2020) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Topology |
| Institutions | Imperial College London Stony Brook University Institute for Advanced Study Stanford University University of Oxford |
| Thesis | The Yang–Mills Equations on Kähler Manifolds (1983) |
Doctoral advisor | Michael Atiyah Nigel Hitchin |
Doctoral students | Oscar Garcia Prada Dominic Joyce Dieter Kotschick Graham Nelson Paul Seidel Ivan Smith Gábor Székelyhidi Richard Thomas Michael Thaddeus |
Sir Simon Kirwan Donaldson FRS MAE (born 20 August 1957) is an English mathematician known for his work on the topology of smooth (differentiable) four-dimensional manifolds, Donaldson–Thomas theory, and his contributions to Kähler geometry. He is currently a Professor in Pure Mathematics at Imperial College London. After being a member of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics (SCGP) for a decade, he holds Emeritus Professor status at the SCGP and Stony Brook University, in New York state.