Richard Thomas (mathematician)

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Richard Thomas
Institutions	Imperial College London
Alma mater	University of Oxford
Thesis	Gauge Theory on Calabi-Yau Manifolds[1] (1997)
Doctoral advisor	Simon Donaldson
Notable awards	Whitehead Prize^[2]
Website
http://www2.imperial.ac.uk/~rpwt/

Richard Paul Thomas is a pure mathematician working in several areas of geometry. He is a professor at Imperial College London

Thomas obtained his PhD on gauge theory on Calabi–Yau manifolds in 1997 under the supervision of Simon Donaldson at the University of Oxford.

In 2004, he was awarded the LMS Whitehead Prize and the Philip Leverhulme Prize, in 2010 the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. Thomas' thesis introduced, as a holomorphic analogue of Casson's 3-manifold invariant, Donaldson-Thomas invariants which have since revolutionized the field of enumerative algebraic geometry.

External links

↑ Richard Thomas (mathematician) at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
↑ "Department of Mathematics Prizes and Awards". Imperial College London. Retrieved 22 January 2013.

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