British mathematician who, with Bryan Birch, formulated the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture between 1962 and 1965. He also served Cambridge University as Vice-Chancellor from 1979 to 1981 and chaired the University Grants Committee, succeeded his father as sixteenth baronet in 1975, and was knighted in 1987.
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BirthplaceThrockley, Northumberland, England 2 Death PlaceThriplow, Cambridgeshire, England 2 Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionWith Bryan Birch, formulated the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, 1962 to 1965, relating rational points on elliptic curves to their associated zeta functions. 2 Notable WorkAnalytic Theory of Abelian Varieties (1974); A Brief Guide to Algebraic Number Theory (2001) 2 AwardFellow of the Royal Society (1967); Knighted (1987); Sylvester Medal (2006); Polya Prize, London Mathematical Society (2006) 2 Peter Swinnerton-Dyer
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Co-formulated the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture in the 1960s using numerical computation on the EDSAC-2 computer at the University of Cambridge.
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1. Wikipedia: Peter Swinnerton-Dyer
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As a mathematician he was best known for his part in the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture relating algebraic properties of elliptic curves to special values of L-functions, which was developed with Bryan Birch during the first half of the 1960s with the help of machine computation, and for his work on the Titan operating system.
2. MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
University of St Andrews, School of Mathematics and Statisticshttps://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Swinnerton-Dyer/
Peter Swinnerton-Dyer was an outstanding mathematician best known for the Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture.
Conjectures Posed: Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture, Biography section, paragraph beginning Two years later, in May 1964
contains what today is known as the Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture
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