Peter Swinnerton-Dyer

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Sir Henry Peter Francis Swinnerton-Dyer, 16th Baronet KBE FRS (b. 2 August 1927), commonly known as Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, is an English mathematician specialising in number theory at University of Cambridge. Swinnerton-Dyer is the son of Sir Leonard Schroeder Swinnerton Dyer, 15th Baronet, and his wife Barbara, daughter of Hereward Brackenbury. He was a Fellow of Trinity College, Master of St Catharine's College and vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1979 to 1981. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1967 and was a KBE in 1987. In 2006 he was awarded the Sylvester Medal.

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.

Swinnerton-Dyer was, in his younger days, an international bridge player, representing the British team twice in the European Open teams championship. In 1953 at Helsinki he was partnered by Dimmie Fleming (the only occasion a woman has played in the British Open team): the team came second out of fifteen teams. In 1962 he was partnered by Ken Barbour; the team came fourth out of twelve teams at Beirut. [Hasenson P. "British Bridge Almanack". 77, London. p400-1]

ee also

*List of Vice-Chancellors of the University of Cambridge

References

*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

External links

* [http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/site2002/People/swinnerton-dyer_hpf.html Personal web page]
* [http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/~miles/HPFSD75/ 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]
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