He is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of Oxford.
Ia merupakan profesor emeritus matematika di Universitas Oxford.
Hitchin attended Ecclesbourne School, Duffield, and earned his BA in mathematics from Jesus College, Oxford, in 1968.
Hitchin menempuh pendidikan di Sekolah Ecclesbourne, Duffield, dan memperoleh gelar BA dalam matematika dari
After moving to Wolfson College, he received his D.Phil.
Setelah pindah ke Kolese Wolfson, ia menerima gelar D.Phil.
From 1971 to 1973 he visited the Institute for Advanced Study and 1973/74 the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University.
Dari 1971 hingga 1973, ia mengunjungi Institut Penelitian Lanjutan dan pada 1973 hingga 1974 mengunjungi Institut Ilmu Matematika Courant di Universitas New York.
He then was a research fellow in Oxford and starting in 1979 tutor, lecturer and fellow of St Catherine's College.
Ia kemudian menjadi anggota penelitian di Oxford serta mulai menjadi tutor, lektor, dan anggota di Kolese St Catherine pada 1979.
In 1990 he became a professor at the University of Warwick and in 1994 the Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.
Pada 1990, ia menjadi profesor di Universitas Warwick dan pada 1994 menjadi Profesor Matematika Rouse Ball di Universitas Cambridge.
In 1997 he was appointed to the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford, a position he held until his retirement in 2016.
Pada 1997, ia ditunjuk menjadi Kepala Geometri Savile di Universitas Oxford, posisi yang ia jabati hingga masa pensiunnya pada 2016.
Amongst his notable discoveries are the Hitchin–Thorpe inequality; Hitchin's projectively flat connection over Teichmüller space; the Atiyah–Hitchin monopole metric; the Atiyah–Hitchin–Singer theorem; the ADHM construction of instantons (of Michael Atiyah, Vladimir Drinfeld, Hitchin, and Yuri Manin); the hyperkähler quotient (of Hitchin, Anders Karlhede, Ulf Lindström and Martin Roček); Higgs bundles, which arise as solutions to the Hitchin equations, a 2-dimensional reduction of the self-dual Yang–Mills equations; and the Hitchin system, an algebraically completely integrable Hamiltonian system associated to the data of an algebraic curve and a complex reductive group.
Di antara penemuan terkemukanya adalah sistem terintegral Hitchin, pertidaksamaan Hitchin–Thorpe, hubungan rata secara projektif Hitchin pada ruang Teichmüller, persamaan dualitas diri Hitchin, metrik monopol Atiyah–Hitchin, teorema Atiyah–Hitchin–Singer, konstruksi ADHM dari instanton (diperkenalkan oleh Atiyah, Vladimir Drinfeld, Hitchin, dan Yuri Manin), serta hasil bagi Hiperkähler (diperkenalkan oleh Hitchin, Anders Karlhede, Ulf Lindström, dan Martin Rocek).
In his article on generalized Calabi–Yau manifolds, he introduced the notion of generalized complex manifolds, providing a single structure that incorporates, as examples, Poisson manifolds, symplectic manifolds and complex manifolds.
Dalam artikelnya pada manifold Calabi–Yau diperumum, ia memperkenalkan gagasan manifold kompleks diperumum, menyediakan struktur tunggal yang bergabung, sebagai contoh, manifold Poisson, manifold simplektik, dan manifold kompleks.
In the span of his career, Hitchin has supervised 37 research students, including Simon Donaldson (part-supervised with Atiyah).
Sepanjang kariernya, Hitchin telah mengawasi 37 mahasiswa penelitian, seperti Simon Donaldson (diawasi bersama Atiyah).
Until 2013 Nigel Hitchin served as the managing editor of the journal Mathematische Annalen.
Hingga 2013, Nigel Hitchin mengabdi dengan mengatur editor jurnal Mathematische Annalen.
In 1991 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Pada 1991, ia terpilih sebagai Anggota Royal Society.
In 2003 he was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Science) from the University of Bath.
Pada 2003, ia dianugerahi gelar kehormatan (Doktor Sains) dari Universitas Bath.
Hitchin was elected as an Honorary Fellow of Jesus College in 1998, and the Senior Berwick Prize (1990), the Sylvester Medal (2000) and the Pólya Prize (2002) have been awarded to him in honour of his far-reaching work.
Hitchin terpilih sebagai Anggota Kehormatan Kolese Jesus pada 1998, serta Penghargaan Senior Berwick (1990), Medali Sylvester (2000), dan Penghargaan Pólya (2002) dianugerahi kepadanya untuk menghormati penelitian yang dilakukannya sejauh ini.
A conference was held in honour of his 60th birthday, in conjunction with the 2006 International Congress of Mathematicians in Spain.
Konferensi diadakan dalam menghormati ulang tahunnya yang ke-60, serangkai dengan Kongres Matematikawan Internasional 2006 di Spanyol. Pada 2012
In 2014 he was awarded another Honorary Degree (Doctor of Science) from the University of Warwick.
Pada 2014, ia dianugerahi gelar kehormatan lainnya (Doktor Sains) dari Universitas Warwick.
In 2016 he received the Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences.
Pada 2016, ia menerima Penghargaan Shaw dalam Ilmu Matematika.
His home page at the University of Oxford Nigel Hitchin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
Laman di Universitas Oxford Nigel Hitchin di Mathematics Genealogy Project