Peter Swinnerton-Dyer
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Sir Henry Peter Francis Swinnerton-Dyer, 16th Baronet (born 2 August 1927), commonly known as Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, is an English mathematician specialising in number theory at Cambridge University. He was a Fellow of Trinity College, Master of St Catharine's College and vice-chancellor of Cambridge University from 1979 to 1981. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1967 and awarded the Sylvester Medal in 2006.
He is best known for his part in the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture relating algebraic properties of elliptic curves to special values of L-functions . This was developed with Bryan Birch during the first half of the 1960s, with the help of machine computation.
He was also an expert bridge player, representing the UK at the 1953 European Teams Championship.
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[edit] Bibliography
- Analytic theory of Abelian varieties, H.P.F. Swinnerton-Dyer, LMS Lecture Notes 14, Cambridge University Press 1974 ISBN 0-521-20526-3
- A brief guide to algebraic number theory, Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, LMS Student Text, Cambridge University Press 2001 ISBN 0-521-00423-3
[edit] External links
- Personal web page
- Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry -- to Peter Swinnerton-Dyer on his 75th birthday, edited by Miles Reid and Alexei Skorobogatov, LMS Lecture Notes 303, Cambridge University Press, 2004 ISBN 0-521-54518-8
- Eric W. Weisstein, Birch/Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture at MathWorld.
- Eric W. Weisstein, Swinnerton-Dyer Polynomial at MathWorld.
