Nigel Hitchin
Nigel Hitchin | |
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Hitchin in 2016 | |
| Born | 2 August 1946 Holbrook, Derbyshire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Jesus College, Oxford (BA) Wolfson College, Oxford (DPhil) |
| Known for | Higgs bundle ADHM construction Atiyah–Hitchin–Singer theorem Hitchin functional Hitchin's equations Hitchin–Thorpe inequality Kobayashi–Hitchin correspondence Nahm–Hitchin description of monopoles Generalized complex structure |
| Awards | Whitehead Prize (1981) Senior Berwick Prize (1990) Sylvester Medal (2000) Pólya Prize (2002) Shaw Prize (2016) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Oxford University of Warwick University of Cambridge |
| Doctoral advisor | Brian Steer Michael Atiyah |
| Doctoral students | Simon Donaldson Oscar Garcia Prada Tamás Hausel Jacques Hurtubise |
Nigel James Hitchin FRS (born 2 August 1946) is a British mathematician working in the fields of differential geometry, gauge theory, algebraic geometry, and mathematical physics. He is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of Oxford.