Miles Anthony Reid FRS (born 30 January 1948) is a mathematician who works in algebraic geometry.

Education

Reid studied the

Cambridge Mathematical Tripos The Mathematical Tripos is the mathematics course that is taught in the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. It is the oldest Tripos examined at the University. Origin In its classical nineteenth-century form, the tripos was ...

Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge or Oxford. ...

and obtained his Ph.D. in 1973 under the supervision of

Peter Swinnerton-Dyer Sir Henry Peter Francis Swinnerton-Dyer, 16th Baronet, (2 August 1927 – 26 December 2018) was an English mathematician specialising in number theory at the University of Cambridge. As a mathematician he was best known for his part in th ...

and

Pierre Deligne Pierre René, Viscount Deligne (; born 3 October 1944) is a Belgian mathematician. He is best known for work on the Weil conjectures, leading to a complete proof in 1973. He is the winner of the 2013 Abel Prize, 2008 Wolf Prize, 1988 Crafoord P ...

Career

Reid was a research fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge from 1973 to 1978. He became a lecturer at the

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in 1978 and was appointed professor there in 1992. He has written two well known books: ''Undergraduate Algebraic Geometry'' and ''Undergraduate Commutative Algebra''.

Awards and honours

Reid was elected a

Fellow of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathemat ...

in 2002. In the same year, he participated as an Invited Speaker in the International Congress of Mathematicians in

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. Reid was awarded the

Senior Berwick Prize The Berwick Prize and Senior Berwick Prize are two prizes of the London Mathematical Society awarded in alternating years in memory of William Edward Hodgson Berwick, a previous Vice-President of the LMS. Berwick left some money to be given to the ...

in 2006 for his paper with

Alessio Corti Alessio Corti (born 1965) is a Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College London working in Algebraic Geometry. Corti studied at the University of Pisa and Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, where he gained a diploma (Laurea) in 1987. He o ...

and Aleksandr Pukhlikov, "Fano 3-fold hypersurfaces", which made a big advance in the study of 3-dimensional

algebraic varieties Algebraic varieties are the central objects of study in algebraic geometry, a sub-field of mathematics. Classically, an algebraic variety is defined as the set of solutions of a system of polynomial equations over the real or complex numbers. ...

Personal life

Reid speaks

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and

Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...

and has given lectures in Japanese.

Bibliography

His most famous book is *Undergraduate Algebraic Geometry, Cambridge University Press 1988 () Other books *Undergraduate commutative algebra, Cambridge University Press 1995, *with Balazs Szendroi: Geometry and topology, Cambridge University Press 2007 His most famous translation is the two volume work by Shafarevich *Basic Algebraic Geometry 1 () *Basic Algebraic Geometry 2 ()

References

1948 births Living people People from Hoddesdon 20th-century English mathematicians 21st-century English mathematicians Algebraic geometers Fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Society Academics of the University of Warwick Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge {{UK-mathematician-stub