W. V. D. Hodge
W. V. D. Hodge | |
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| Born | 17 June 1903 Edinburgh, UK |
| Died | 7 July 1975 (aged 72) Cambridge, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | George Watson's College |
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh St John's College, Cambridge |
| Known for | Hodge conjecture Hodge dual Hodge bundle Hodge theory |
| Awards | Adams Prize (1936) Senior Berwick Prize (1952) Royal Medal (1957) De Morgan Medal (1959) Copley Medal (1974) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Pembroke College, Cambridge |
| Academic advisors | E. T. Whittaker |
| Doctoral students | Michael Atiyah Ian R. Porteous David J. Simms |
Sir William Vallance Douglas Hodge FRS FRSE (/hɒdʒ/; 17 June 1903 – 7 July 1975) was a British mathematician, specifically a geometer.
His discovery of far-reaching topological relations between algebraic geometry and differential geometry—an area now called Hodge theory and pertaining more generally to Kähler manifolds—has been a major influence on subsequent work in geometry.