1. Simon Donaldson is currently a permanent member of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University in New York, and a Professor in Pure Mathematics at Imperial College London.
11 Facts About Simon Donaldson
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Simon Donaldson gained a BA degree in mathematics from Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1979, and in 1980 began postgraduate work at Worcester College, Oxford, at first under Nigel Hitchin and later under Michael Atiyah's supervision.
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Still a postgraduate student, Simon Donaldson proved in 1982 a result that would establish his fame.
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Simon Donaldson published the result in a paper "Self-dual connections and the topology of smooth 4-manifolds" which appeared in 1983.
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Simon Donaldson was an invited speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1983, and a plenary speaker at the ICM in 1986,1998, and 2018.
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In 1985, Simon Donaldson received the Junior Whitehead Prize from the London Mathematical Society.
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In February 2006, Simon Donaldson was awarded the King Faisal International Prize for science for his work in pure mathematical theories linked to physics, which have helped in forming an understanding of the laws of matter at a subnuclear level.
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In 2010, Simon Donaldson was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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Simon Donaldson was knighted in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to mathematics.
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Simon Donaldson's work is on the application of mathematical analysis to problems in geometry.
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Simon Donaldson obtained results in the toric case of the problem.