Michael Atiyah

Sir Michael Francis Atiyah  (; 22 April 1929 – 11 January 2019) was an English mathematician specialising in geometry. He won the Fields Medal in 1966 and the Abel Prize in 2004.

He was 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). From 1997 until his death, he was an honorary professor at the University of Edinburgh. During 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians, Atiyah said he had a proof for Riemann hypothesis.

He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1988.

Atiyah died on 11 January 2019 in Edinburgh, Scotland at the age of 89.A tribute to former President of the Royal Society Sir Michael Atiyah OM FRS (1929 - 2019)

References

Other websites
Michael Atiyah tells his life story at Web of Stories
The celebrations of Michael Atiyah's 80th birthday in Edinburgh, 20-24 April 2009
Mathematical descendants of Michael Atiyah

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