Martin Bridson
British mathematician (born 1964)
Martin Bridson
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Bridson in 2016
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22 October 1964
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Douglas
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Education | St Ninian's High School, Douglas |
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Fields | Geometric group theory |
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Thesis | Geodesics and Curvature in Metric Simplicial Complexes (1991) |
Doctoral advisor | Karen Vogtmann [2] |
Doctoral students | Daniel Wise [2] |
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Martin Robert Bridson FRS (born 22 October 1964) is a Manx mathematician. He is Whitehead Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Oxford , and the president of the Clay Mathematics Institute . He was previously the head of Oxford's Mathematical Institute . He is a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford and an honorary fellow of Hertford College, Oxford . Specializing in geometry , topology and group theory , Bridson is best known for his work in geometric group theory . [2] [3] [4]
Education and early life
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Bridson is a native of the Isle of Man . [5] He was educated at St Ninian's High School, Douglas , then Hertford College, Oxford , and Cornell University , [1] receiving a Master of Arts degree from Oxford in 1986, and a Master of Science degree in 1988 followed by a PhD in 1991 from Cornell. [6] [2] His PhD thesis was supervised by Karen Vogtmann , [2] and was entitled Geodesics and Curvature in Metric Simplicial Complexes .
Career and research
He was an assistant professor at Princeton University until 1996, was twice a visiting professor at the University of Geneva (1992 and 2006), and was Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College London from 2002 to 2007. From 1993 to 2002 he was a Tutorial Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, and Reader (1996) then Professor of Topology (2000) in the University of Oxford. He remains a Supernumerary Fellow of Pembroke College. [7] In 2016, Bridson became only the second Manxman to ever be elected to the Royal Society, after Edward Forbes . In 2020, he was elected to Academia Europaea . [8] With André Haefliger , he won the 2020 Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition for the highly influential book Metric Spaces of Non-positive Curvature , published by Springer-Verlag in 1999.
Honours and awards
Bridson was an invited lecturer at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2006. [ citation needed ]
- 2016 Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society . [9]
- 2014 Elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society . [10]
- 1999 Whitehead Prize
- 2012 Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
- 2020 Elected Member of Academia Europaea
- 2020 Steele Prize of the American Mathematical Society [11]
References
- 1 2 Anon (2017). "Bridson, Prof. Martin Robert" . Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. doi : 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.250830 . (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- 1 2 3 4 5 Martin Bridson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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- ↑ Martin Bridson publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
- ↑ "WEDDINGS;Julie A. Lynch, Martin R. Bridson" . The New York Times . 31 December 1995.
- ↑ "Bridson Martin - Magdalen College" . Archived from the original on 23 July 2012 . Retrieved 9 July 2012 .
- ↑ Bridson, Martin. "Martin R. Bridson" . people.maths.ox.ac.uk .
- ↑ "Martin Bridson and Endre Suli elected to Academia Europaea" . maths.ox.ac.uk . 31 July 2020 . Retrieved 20 August 2020 .
- ↑ "Martin bridson biography" . Royal Society . Retrieved 1 May 2016 .
- ↑ "American Mathematical Society" . www.ams.org .
- ↑ "Leroy P Steele Prize" . www.ams.org .
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