Mathematician:Simon Kirwan Donaldson
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Mathematician
English mathematician known for his work on the topology of smooth (differentiable) four-dimensional manifolds, Donaldson-Thomas theory, and his contributions to Kähler geometry.
Fields Medal
Simon Kirwan Donaldson was awarded a Fields Medal in $\text {1986}$ at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berkeley, California, USA:
- Received medal primarily for his work on topology of four-manifolds, especially for showing that there is a differential structure on Euclidian four-space which is different from the usual structure.
Wolf Prize
Simon Kirwan Donaldson was awarded a Wolf Prize for Mathematics with Yakov Eliashberg in $\text {2008}$:
- For their contributions to differential geometry and topology.
Nationality
English
History
- Born: 20 August 1957 in Cambridge, England
Theorems and Definitions
- Donaldson Theorem
- Donaldson-Uhlenbeck-Yau Theorem (with Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck and Shing-Tung Yau)
- Yau-Tian-Donaldson Conjecture (with Shing-Tung Yau and Tian Gang)
Results named for Simon Kirwan Donaldson can be found here.
Definitions of concepts named for Simon Kirwan Donaldson can be found here.
Publications
- 1983: Self-dual connections and the topology of smooth 4-manifolds
- 2002: Floer homology groups in Yang-Mills theory
- 2011: Riemann surfaces
Also known as
Full name with title: Sir Simon Kirwan Donaldson