  sir martin john taylor, frs (born 18 february 1952) is a british mathematician and academic. he was professor of pure mathematics at the school of mathematics, university of manchester and, prior to its formation and merger, umist where he was appointed to a chair after moving from trinity college, cambridge in 1986. on 5 november 2009 he was elected warden of merton college, oxford, and took office on 2 october 2010. == early life and education == taylor was born in leicester in 1952 and educated at wyggeston grammar school. he gained a first class degree from pembroke college, oxford in 1973, and a ph.d. from king's college london with a thesis entitled galois module structure of the ring of integers of l-extensions in 1976 under the supervision of albrecht frÃ¶hlich. == research == his early research concerned various properties and structures of algebraic numbers. in 1981 he proved the frÃ¶hlich conjecture relating the symmetries of algebraic integers to the behaviour of certain analytic functions called artin l-functions. in recent years his research has led him to study various aspects of arithmetic geometry: in particular, he and his collaborators have demonstrated how geometric properties of zeros of integral polynomials in many variables can be determined by the behaviour of associated l-functions. == awards == taylor was awarded the london mathematical society whitehead prize in 1982 and shared the adams prize in 1983. he was elected a fellow of the royal society in 1996.{{cite web|title=fe
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