Miles Reid

Miles Reid ( born January 30, 1948 in Hoddesdon ) is a British mathematician who deals with algebraic geometry.

Reid studied at Cambridge University, where in 1969 he took his bachelor's degree in 1972 and his doctorate in Pierre Deligne and Peter Swinnerton - Dyer ( The complete intersection of two or more quadrics ) and 1973 received his master's degree. Meanwhile, he was a research mathematician at Cambridge ( Christ's College ) at Peter Swinnerton - Dyer and at the IHES with Pierre Deligne, where he received his doctorate. As a post-doc, he was also two years in Russia at the Moscow State University (and later almost a year in Minsk), one year at the University of Tokyo (1976 /77) and at the University of Erlangen. In 1978 he became a lecturer at the University of Warwick, 1989 and 1992 Reader professor. He also served as a visiting scientist at the University of Kyoto, Nagoya University, in Hong Kong, at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, at the Steklov Institute and the University of Utah. 2009 to 2012 he is also professor in Seoul ( Sogang University). He is Director of the Warwick Mathematics Research Center.

Reid worked in particular on three-dimensional algebraic varieties. In 1988 he was awarded the Senior Berwick Prize of the London Mathematical Society for Fano 3- fold hypersurfaces with Alessio Corti and Alexander Puklihkov in which they generalize a result of Yuri Manin and Iskovskikh of 1971 on the non - rationality of a smooth three-dimensional quartic and the non- rationality of all three-dimensional Fano varieties show. In 2004 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 2002 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing ( update on 3- fold ).

He also translated textbooks from Russian ( among other things, Basic algebraic geometry by Igor Shafarevich ) and Japanese.

Writings

  • Undergraduate algebraic geometry, Cambridge University Press 1988
  • Undergraduate commutative algebra, Cambridge University Press 1995
  • Update on 3- folds, ICM 2002
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