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Canonical name: Atiyah, Michael Francis
Legal name: Atiyah, Sir Michael Francis
Birthdate: 1929-04-22
Date of death: 2019-01-11
Gender: male
Education: University of Cambridge (Trinity College)
Occupations: mathematician
professor
Organizations: University of Cambridge
University of Oxford
Institute for Advanced Study
University of Edinburgh
University of Leicester
French Academy of Sciences (show all 22)
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Royal Swedish Academy
Royal Irish Academy
American Philosophical Society
Indian National Science Academy
Chinese Academy of Science
Australian Academy of Science
Russian Academy of Science
Ukrainian Academy of Science
Georgian Academy of Science
Venezuela Academy of Science
Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Royal Spanish Academy of Science
Accademia dei Lincei
Moscow Mathematical Society
(Fellow ∙ 2012)
Awards and honors: Fields Medal (1966)
Royal Medal (1968)
De Morgan Medal (1980)
Antonio Feltrinelli Prize from the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (1981)
Knight Bachelor (1983)
King Faisal International Prize for Science (1987) (show all 20)
Copley Medal (1988)
Légion d'Honneur (Grand-Officier, 2011)
Order of Merit (1992)
Benjamin Franklin Medal of the American Philosophical Society (1993)
Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Medal of the Indian National Science Academy (1993)
Abel Prize (2004)
President's Medal from the Institute of Physics (2008)
Grande Médaille (2010)
Awarded honorary degrees by the universities of Bonn, Warwick, Durham, St. Andrews, Dublin, Chicago, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Essex, London, Sussex, Ghent, Reading, Helsinki, Salamanca, Montreal, Wales, Lebanon, Queen's (Canada ∙ Chinese University ∙ Canada ∙ Chinese University)
Royal Society (Fellow, 1966)
Royal Society of Edinburgh
American Mathematical Society
National Academy of Sciences
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Relationships: Atiyah, Edward (father)
Atiyah, Patrick (brother)
Nationality: UK
Birthplace: Hampstead, London, England, UK
Places of residence: Khartoum, Sudan
Cairo, Egypt
Alexandria, Egypt
Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Princeton, New Jersey, USA (show all 7)
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Associated Place (for map): UK

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paperkingdoms 44 reviews

Introduction to Commutative Algebra by Michael Francis Atiyah

A solid book, both readable [given the background knowlege] and consise enough to make an excellent reference. I've eventually come to see it's rather sparse index as quirky rather than deeply irksome.

Nov 16, 2005

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