Nicholas Shepherd-Barron

Ian Nicholas "Nick" Shepherd - Barron ( born March 17, 1955) is a British mathematician who deals with algebraic geometry and number theory.

Shepherd - Barron was 1981 Miles Reid received his PhD at the University of Warwick ( Some Questions on Singularities in Two and Three Dimensions ). He is professor of algebraic geometry at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity College ( since 1990).

Shepherd - Barron worked initially in the context of the Mori program ( birational classification of three-dimensional algebraic varieties of Shigefumi Mori ), singularities of 3- varieties, and was involved in the program of the extension of the classification of algebraic varieties to higher dimensions.

By Richard Taylor, he worked on Galois representations in number theory and he in 2008 was involved in a proof of the Sato -Tate conjecture in special cases.

In 2006 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society.

He is the son of the Scottish inventor John Shepherd - Barron (1925-2010), who developed the first automated teller machine at De La Rue Instruments in the 1960s.