About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 50. Chapters: Alexander Grothendieck, Paul Cohen, Atle Selberg, Rene Thom, Edward Witten, Enrico Bombieri, Alain Connes, John Milnor, William Thurston, Michael Atiyah, Lars Ahlfors, Stephen Smale, Heisuke Hironaka, Vladimir Voevodsky, Laurent Lafforgue, Maxim Kontsevich, Richard Borcherds, Grigori Perelman, Shing-Tung Yau, Terence Tao, David Mumford, Timothy Gowers, Simon Donaldson, Lars Hormander, Grigory Margulis, Jean-Pierre Serre, Kunihiko Kodaira, John G. Thompson, Laurent Schwartz, Ngo Bảo Chau, Stanislav Smirnov, Vladimir Drinfel'd, Pierre Deligne, Sergei Novikov, Cedric Villani, Michael Freedman, Charles Fefferman, Daniel Quillen, Vaughan Jones, Elon Lindenstrauss, Wendelin Werner, Jesse Douglas, Andrei Okounkov, Jean Bourgain, Alan Baker, Curtis T. McMullen, Pierre-Louis Lions, Shigefumi Mori, Efim Zelmanov, Klaus Roth, Gerd Faltings, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz. Excerpt: Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, OM, FRS, FRSE (born 22 April 1929) is a British mathematician working in geometry. Atiyah grew up in Sudan and Egypt but spent most of his academic life in the United Kingdom at Oxford and Cambridge, and in the United States at the Institute for Advanced Study. He has been president of the Royal Society (1990-1995), master of Trinity College, Cambridge (1990-1997), chancellor of the University of Leicester (1995-2005), and president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2005-2008). He is currently retired, and is an honorary professor at the University of Edinburgh. Atiyah's mathematical collaborators include Raoul Bott, Friedrich Hirzebruch and Isadore Singer, and his students include Graeme Segal, Nigel Hitchin and Simon Donaldson. Together with Hirzebruch, he laid the foundations for topological K-theory, an important tool in algebraic topology, which, informally speaking, describes ways in which spaces can be...
