11 Facts About Phillip Griffiths

Phillip Augustus Griffiths IV was born on October 18,1938 and is an American mathematician, known for his work in the field of geometry, and in particular for the complex manifold approach to algebraic geometry.

Phillip Griffiths is a major developer in particular of the theory of variation of Hodge structure in Hodge theory and moduli theory, which forms part of transcendental algebraic geometry and which touches upon major and distant areas of differential geometry.

Phillip Griffiths worked on partial differential equations, coauthored with Shiing-Shen Chern, Robert Bryant and Robert Gardner on Exterior Differential Systems.

Phillip Griffiths received his BS from Wake Forest College in 1959 and his PhD from Princeton University in 1962 after completing a doctoral dissertation, titled "On certain homogeneous complex manifolds", under the supervision of Donald Spencer.

Phillip Griffiths was then a Provost and James B Duke Professor of Mathematics at Duke University from 1983 to 1991.

Phillip Griffiths remained as part of the Faculty of Mathematics at the IAS until June 2009, after which he has been emeritus at the IAS.

Phillip Griffiths has published on algebraic geometry, differential geometry, geometric function theory, and the geometry of partial differential equations.

Phillip Griffiths serves as the Chair of the Science Initiative Group.

Phillip Griffiths is co-author, with Joe Harris, of Principles of Algebraic Geometry, a well-regarded textbook on complex algebraic geometry.

Phillip Griffiths was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1979 and the American Philosophical Society in 1992.

Also in 2014, Phillip Griffiths was awarded the Chern Medal for lifetime devotion to mathematics and outstanding achievements.