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Peter Swinnerton-Dyer
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British mathematician who, with Bryan Birch, formulated the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture between 1962 and 1965. He also served Cambridge University as Vice-Chancellor from 1979 to 1981 and chaired the University Grants Committee, succeeded his father as sixteenth baronet in 1975, and was knighted in 1987.
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BirthplaceThrockley, Northumberland, England 1 Death PlaceThriplow, Cambridgeshire, England 1 Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionWith Bryan Birch, formulated the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, 1962 to 1965, relating rational points on elliptic curves to their associated zeta functions. 1 Notable WorkAnalytic Theory of Abelian Varieties (1974); A Brief Guide to Algebraic Number Theory (2001) 1 AwardFellow of the Royal Society (1967); Knighted (1987); Sylvester Medal (2006); Polya Prize, London Mathematical Society (2006) 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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1. MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
University of St Andrews, School of Mathematics and Statisticshttps://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Swinnerton-Dyer/Quote, https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Swinnerton-Dyer/
Peter Swinnerton-Dyer was an outstanding mathematician best known for the Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture.
1. MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
University of St Andrews, School of Mathematics and StatisticsConjectures Posed: Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture, Biography section, paragraph beginning Two years later, in May 1964Quote, Conjectures Posed: Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture, Biography section, paragraph beginning Two years later, in May 1964
contains what today is known as the Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture
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