Mathematician:Henry Peter Francis Swinnerton-Dyer

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Mathematician

English mathematician specialising in number theory.

Best known for his part in the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture.


Nationality

English


History

  • Born: 2 August 1927 in Ponteland, Northumberland, England
  • Died: 26 December 2018


Theorems and Definitions

Results named for Henry Peter Francis Swinnerton-Dyer can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Henry Peter Francis Swinnerton-Dyer can be found here.


Publications

  • 1965: Notes on Elliptic Curves (II) (J. reine angew. Math. Vol. 218: pp. 79 – 108) (with B.J. Birch)
  • 1974: Analytic theory of Abelian varieties
  • 2001: A brief guide to algebraic number theory

Also known as

His full name, complete with titles: Sir Henry Peter Francis Swinnerton-Dyer, 16th Baronet.