Mathematician researching Algebraic Geometry
Miles Anthony Reid FRS (born 30 January 1948) is a mathematician who works in algebraic geometry .[ 2]
Education
Reid studied the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos at Trinity College, Cambridge and obtained his Ph.D. in 1973 under the supervision of Peter Swinnerton-Dyer and Pierre Deligne .[ 1]
Career
Reid was a research fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge from 1973 to 1978. He became a lecturer at the University of Warwick in 1978 and was appointed professor there in 1992. He has written two well known books: Undergraduate Algebraic Geometry and Undergraduate Commutative Algebra .
Awards and honours
Reid was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2002. In the same year, he participated as an Invited Speaker in the
International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing . Reid was awarded the Senior Berwick Prize in 2006 for his paper with Alessio Corti and Aleksandr Pukhlikov, "Fano 3-fold hypersurfaces", which made a big advance in the study of 3-dimensional algebraic varieties .[ 3] Sylvester Medal of the Royal Society.[ 4]
Personal life
Reid speaks Japanese and Russian and has given lectures in Japanese.
Bibliography
His most famous book is
Other books
Undergraduate Commutative Algebra , Cambridge University Press 1995, doi :10.1017/CBO9781139172721 with Balazs Szendroi: Geometry and Topology , Cambridge University Press 2007 His most famous translation is the two volume work by Shafarevich
And he has also translated Matsumura's
References
International National Academics Other
