Miles Reid
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| Born | Miles Anthony Reid 30 January 1948 |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
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| Thesis | The Complete Intersection of Two or More Quadratics (1972) |
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| Website | mreid |
Miles Anthony Reid FRS (born 30 January 1948) is a mathematician who works in algebraic geometry.[2]
Education
[edit | edit source]Reid studied the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos at Trinity College, Cambridge and obtained his Ph.D. in 1973 under the supervision of Peter Swinnerton-Dyer and Pierre Deligne.[1]
Career
[edit | edit source]Reid was a research fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge from 1973 to 1978. He became a lecturer at the University of Warwick in 1978 and was appointed professor there in 1992. He has written two well known books: Undergraduate Algebraic Geometry and Undergraduate Commutative Algebra.
Awards and honours
[edit | edit source]Reid was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2002. In the same year, he participated as an Invited Speaker in the International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing. Reid was awarded the Senior Berwick Prize in 2006 for his paper with Alessio Corti and Aleksandr Pukhlikov, "Fano 3-fold hypersurfaces", which made a big advance in the study of 3-dimensional algebraic varieties.[3] In 2023 he was awarded the Sylvester Medal of the Royal Society.[4]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Reid speaks Japanese and Russian and has given lectures in Japanese.
Bibliography
[edit | edit source]His most famous book is
- Undergraduate Algebraic Geometry, Cambridge University Press 1988 (Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
Other books
- Undergraduate Commutative Algebra, Cambridge University Press 1995, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- with Balazs Szendroi: Geometry and Topology, Cambridge University Press 2007
His most famous translation is the two volume work by Shafarevich
- Basic Algebraic Geometry 1, Springer 1972 (Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).)
- Basic Algebraic Geometry 2, Springer 1977 (Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).)
And he has also translated Matsumura's
- Commutative Ring Theory, Cambridge University Press 1987, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b c Miles Reid at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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- ^ Sylvester Medal 2023
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