Martin J. Taylor

Sir Martin J. Taylor ( born February 18, 1952 in Leicester ) is a British mathematician who deals with algebraic number theory and arithmetic geometry.

He studied at Oxford University (Bachelor in 1973, Pembroke College) and in 1977 at King's College London at Albrecht Fröhlich doctorate ( Galois module structure of the ring of integers of l -extensions ). He was at Trinity College, Cambridge, before 1986, he was professor at the University of Manchester. 2010 he has been Warden of Merton College, Oxford University.

In 1980 he proved a fundamental assumption of Cheerful on the Galoismodulstruktur the ring of integers in algebraic number fields.

In 1982 he received the Junior Whitehead Prize and in 1983 the Adams Prize. 1998 to 2000 he was President of the London Mathematical Society. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society (1996).

He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Bordeaux, the University of East Anglia and the University of Leicester. In 2009 he was knighted.

Writings

• Class groups of group rings, London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series 91, Cambridge University Press 1984
• With Philippe Cassou - Nougès ring of integers and elliptic functions, Birkhäuser, Progress in Mathematics, 1987
• With Cheerful Algebraic number theory, Cambridge University Press 1991
• John Coates (Editor) L -functions in arithmetic, LMS Lecture Notes Series 153, Cambridge University Press, 1991 ( Durham Symposium 1989)
• Rings with Klaus Roggenkamp Group and class groups, DMV Seminar 18, Birkhäuser 1992
• On Fröhlich 's conjecture for rings of integers of tame extensions, Inventiones Mathematicae, Volume 63, 1981, p 41-79