Savilian Professor of Geometry

Columns: Name | Years | Education | College as Professor | Notes
Edward Titchmarsh | 1931-1963 | Balliol College | New College | Titchmarsh studied with Hardy and acted as his secretary before obtaining a lectureship at University College , London in 1923 ; he was also a non-resident fellow of Magdalen College , Oxford between 1924 and 1930 . He was professor of pure mathematics at the University of Liverpool from 1929 until succeeding Hardy at Oxford in 1931 . As Titchmarsh ( unlike Hardy ) had said when applying that he was unwilling to lecture on geometry , one of the requirements of the Oxford chair , the stipulation was removed for him . He was a leading figure in Oxford mathematics thereafter , publishing extensively and winning the Sylvester Medal of the Royal Society in 1955 , but had little enthusiasm for lecturing | Michael Atiyah | 1963-1969 | University of Cambridge ( Trinity College ) | New College | Atiyah taught and carried out research in Cambridge and in the United States ( at Princeton University , New Jersey ) . He then moved to Oxford in 1961 , initially as a Fellow of St Catherine 's College and Reader in Mathematics , before he succeeded Titchmarsh . He moved back to Princeton to take up a chair in 1969 , although returned to Oxford in 1973 as Royal Society Research Professor . In 1990 , he became Master of Trinity College , Cambridge ( a post he held until 1997 ) , and was later President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh ( 2005-2008 ) . He was knighted in 1983 and made a member of the Order of Merit in 1992 . Mathematical awards include the Fields Medal ( 1966 ) for his work on K-theory and the Atiyah-Singer index theorem ( work which has been used by theoretical physicists ) and the Copley Medal of the Royal Society ( 1988 ) | Ioan James | 1970-1995 | The Queen 's College | New College | After studying at Oxford , James moved to the United States to carry out research at Princeton University in New Jersey and at University of California , Berkeley , returning to a research fellowship at Gonville and Caius College , Cambridge . In 1957 , James became Reader in Pure Mathematics at Oxford , and also was a senior research fellow at St John 's College from 1959 until his appointment to the Savilian professorship in 1970 . He retired in 1995 , becoming professor emeritus . His research topics were in the field of topology , especially homotopy , and he has also written on the history of topology and edited a journal on the subject | Richard Taylor | 1995-1996 | University of Cambridge ( Clare College ) | New College | Taylor studied at Cambridge and in the United States at Princeton University , New Jersey , before becoming a fellow of Clare College in 1988 . He moved to Oxford in 1995 , but resigned after one year to take up a chair at Harvard University . He has worked on Langlands program and , with others , proved the Sato-Tate conjecture , and collaborated with Andrew Wiles on the solution to Fermat 's last theorem . He was awarded the Shaw Prize in 2007 ( along with Robert Langlands ) for initiating and developing a grand unifying vision of mathematics that connects prime numbers with symmetry | Nigel Hitchin | 1997-2016 | Jesus College and Wolfson College | New College | Hitchin taught in the United States at Princeton University in New Jersey and at New York University , then returned to Wolfson College for further research before becoming a fellow and tutor at St Catherine 's College . He was a professor of mathematics at Warwick University before becoming Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge in 1994 . His research areas include differential geometry , algebraic geometry , Hyperkähler geometry and special Lagrangian geometry | Frances Kirwan | 2017 onwards | University of Cambridge ( Clare College ) and Balliol College | New College | Kirwan held a Junior Fellowship at Harvard from 1983 to 1985 , and held a Fellowship at Magdalen College , Oxford from 1983 to 1986 , before becoming a fellow at Balliol College , Oxford . Her research interests include moduli spaces in algebraic geometry , geometric invariant theory ( GIT ) , and in the link between GIT and moment maps in symplectic geometry . Her work endeavours to understand the structure of geometric objects by investigation of their algebraic and topological properties

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1931-1963 | 1995-1996 | Ioan James | New College