Mathematician:William Vallance Douglas Hodge

Mathematician

Scottish mathematician specialising in geometry.

Nationality

Scottish

History

• Born: 17 June 1903 in Edinburgh, Scotland
• Died: 7 July 1975 in Cambridge, UK

Theorems and Definitions

• Hodge Conjecture
• Hodge Index Theorem

• Hodge Bundle
• Hodge Dual
• Hodge Group (also known as a Mumford-Tate Group for David Bryant Mumford and John Torrence Tate)
• Hodge Number
• Hodge Star Operator
• Hodge Theory

Results named for William Vallance Douglas Hodge can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for William Vallance Douglas Hodge can be found here.

Publications

• 1941: The Theory and Applications of Harmonic Integrals

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "William Vallance Douglas Hodge": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive