Richard S. Ward

Richard Samuel Ward FRS (born 1951) is a British mathematician.

Work

He is Professor of Mathematics at Durham University. He is most famous for his extension of Roger Penrose's twistor theory to nonlinear cases (Roger Penrose was Richard Ward's supervisor at university). He has related interests in the theory of monopoles, topological solitons and skyrmions.

Honors and awards

He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of London in 2005.[1]

Writings

Ward co-wrote Twistor geometry and field theory with Raymond O. Wells Jr.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Notices of the AMS - Sept 2005 American Mathematical Society

External links


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