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	Michael Atiyah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Atiyah is now retired and an honorary professor at the University of Edinburgh and Chancellor of the University of Leicester.
		Atiyah was responsible for the founding of the InterAcademy Panel on International Issues, a global network of the world's scientific academies which aims to help its member academies to shape public policy in areas related to science.
		Michael Francis Atiyah was knighted in 1983 and made a member of the Order of Merit in 1992.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Atiyah (419 words)

	Atiyah–Singer index theorem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		When Michael Atiyah and Isadore Singer were awarded the Abel Prize by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 2004, the prize announcement explained the Atiyah–Singer index theorem in these words:
		In papers written or published in the period around 1962-1965 the theorem was stated and proved by Michael Atiyah, Raoul Bott and Isadore Singer.
		Atiyah promoted for a while a notion of elliptic topology for which the index theorem was the central notion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Atiyah-Singer_index_theorem (902 words)

	Michael Francis Atiyah -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, (Click link for more info and facts about OM) OM (born 22 April 1929) is a (A person skilled in mathematics) mathematician who was born in (The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center) London.
		Atiyah has also been (Someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university) professor of mathematics at the (Click link for more info and facts about Institute for Advanced Study) Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
		Atiyah is now retired and an honorary professor at the (Click link for more info and facts about University of Edinburgh) University of Edinburgh and Chancellor of the (Click link for more info and facts about University of Leicester) University of Leicester.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mi/michael_francis_atiyah.htm (650 words)

	String People: Sir Michael Atiyah
		Sir Michael Atiyah, formerly a professor at both Oxford and Cambridge, is one of the foremost mathematicians of the 20th century, and still an important force in the 21st.
		In the 1960s Atiyah, with Isaac Singer of MIT, proved powerful and far-reaching "index theorems" making profound connections between geometry, topology and algebra relating to the physics of quantum operators in quantum field theory.
		Atiyah is of Lebanese and Scottish descent and was educated in Cairo and Manchester before entering Trinity College, Cambridge.
	www.superstringtheory.com /people/atiyah.html (4129 words)

	Guardian \| 'I'm a bit of a jack of all trades'
		In 1990, Atiyah published a book called The Geometry and Physics of Knots, just as physicists were, with the help of his theorem, unravelling the mysteries of string theory, which promises to explain how the universe is made.
		Atiyah uses images from the language of travellers to explain to lay people what it is like inside the mind of a brilliant mathematician.
		Atiyah points out that, in the apparent banality of looking round a living room and identifying things, the brain is doing something extraordinary.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4906301-103680,00.html (1666 words)

	Abel Prize Awarded: The Mathematicians' Nobel
		The prize is being given for the work that led to the names Atiyah and Singer being forever linked in the field of mathematics: the "Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem", which they formulated and proved in a series of papers they published in the early 1960s.
		Atiyah, who trained as an algebraic geometer and topologist, and Singer, who came from analysis, worked on ramifications of the theorem for twenty years.
		Michael Francis Atiyah was born in 1929 in London.
	www.maa.org /devlin/devlin_04_04.html (2043 words)

	Clay Mathematics Institute
		Sir Michael Atiyah is emeritus at the University of Edinburgh, has been Professor at Oxford, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and at Cambridge University.
		Atiyah's work revolutinized mathematics in the twentieth century by unifying the disciplines of analysis, topology, and geometry.
		Atiyah presents the Poincaré Conjecture, the Hodge Conjecture, Quantum Yang-Mills Theory, and the existence/smoothness of solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations.
	www.claymath.org /annual_meeting/2000_Millennium_Event/Video (1227 words)

	News from ICTP 105 - Profile
		Atiyah travelled to Trieste to participate in the ICTP/SISSA (International School for Advanced Studies) Colloquium on Geometry, which was held in honour of M.S. Narasimhan, long-time head of ICTP's Mathematics group who was celebrating his 70th birthday.
		Atiyah, formerly a professor at Oxford and Cambridge, UK, is no stranger to efforts seeking to find common intellectual ground between different fields of knowledge.
		Atiyah's quest to respond with clarity and precision to difficult questions has not been limited to the classroom and flboard.
	www.ictp.trieste.it /~sci_info/News_from_ICTP/News_105/profile.html (627 words)

	Forde, Francis Michael -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Atiyah received a knighthood in 1983 and the Order of Merit in 1992.
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	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9034849?tocId=9034849 (805 words)

	News: Sir Michael Atiyah awarded Abel Prize
		The 2004 Abel Prize has been awarded to Sir Michael Atiyah, OM, FRS, and his long-time collaborator Isadore Singer, for their discovery and proof of the index theorem, achieved while Atiyah was at Oxford.
		Atiyah and Singer's work can be described as a tool that helps scientists work out how many solutions there are to problems they are trying to unpick – such as how heat flows, or how an object moves.
		Sir Michael is a member and former president of both the Royal Society and the London Mathematical Society.
	www.admin.ox.ac.uk /po/news/2003-04/apr/13.shtml (628 words)

	Atiyah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Atiyah was soon to fill the highly prestigious Savilian Chair of Geometry at Oxford from 1963, holding this chair until 1969 when he was appointed professor of mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
		Oxford was to remain Atiyah's base until 1990 when he became Master of Trinity College, Cambridge and Director of the newly opened Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge.
		More recently Atiyah has been influential in stressing the role of topology in quantum field theory and in bringing the work of theoretical physicists, notably E Witten, to the attention of the mathematical community.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Atiyah.html (845 words)

	Geometry and Physics: A Marriage Made in Heaven
		Sir Michael Atiyah will present an overall view of the history and current state of this cosmic marriage.
		Professor Atiyah is currently an Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh.
		Sir Michael served as President of the London Mathematical Society (1974-1976) and President of the Royal Society (1990-1995).
	www.wlap.org /umich/phys/colloq/2002/winter/atiyah (448 words)

	References for Atiyah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		M Atiyah, Address of the president, Sir Michael Atiyah, given at the anniversary meeting on 29 November 1991, Notes and Records Roy.
		M Atiyah, Address of the President, Sir Michael Atiyah, O. M., given at the anniversary meeting on 30 November 1994, Notes and Records Roy.
		Michael F Atiyah, in M Atiyah and D Iagolnitzer (eds.), Fields Medalists Lectures (Singapore, 1997), 113-114.
	www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk /history/Printref/Atiyah.html (125 words)

	Department of Mathematics - University of Georgia
		Professor Atiyah will outline the fascinating story which still continues, and involves the latest ideas in fundamental physics.
		Professor Atiyah will be introduced by the UGA President Michael Adams.
		Professor Atiyah will discuss an elementary problem which associates to any n distinct points of 3-dimensional space n complex polynomials in one variable of degree n-1.
	www.math.uga.edu /seminars_conferences/atiyah-lectures.html (218 words)

	Abel Prize
		Atiyah and Singer will receive the prize "for their discovery and proof of the index theorem, bringing together topology, geometry and analysis, and their outstanding role in building new bridges between mathematics and theoretical physics."
		The Atiyah-Singer index theorem is one of the great landmarks of twentieth century mathematics, influencing profoundly many of the most important later developments in topology, differential geometry and quantum field theory.
		Sir Michael was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society at the notably young age of 32, when he had already demonstrated an, as yet, unrivalled ability to cross mathematical boundaries.
	www.ed.ac.uk /news/abelprize.html (350 words)

	University of Edinburgh - edit volume 04 issue 04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sir Michael Atiyah, the University of Edinburgh honorary professor who last year received maths’ equivalent of the Nobel prize, is not unsympathetic to those who struggle with the discipline in which he has shone so brilliantly.
		Although Sir Michael underplays the prize money of £480,000 which he and his fellow winner, the American mathematician, Isadore Singer, shared for the Abel Prize last May, it is galling to think that people have won more for a night’s work on TV quiz shows.
		The prize is named after one of Sir Michael’s heroes, the Norwegian mathematician, Niels Henrik Abel, whose radical idea of tackling mathematical problems en masse using general theories – rather than solving specific problems one at a time – transformed maths in the early 19th century.
	www.ed.ac.uk /alumni/edit/features (1229 words)

	Abel Prize Ceremony 2004
		"[Atiyah and Singer] are receiving the prize for having discovered and proved the index theorem, which links together topology, geometry and analysis, and for playing an extraordinary role in building new bridges between mathematics and theoretical physics...
		His Majesty King Harald presented the Abel Prize to Atiyah and Singer, and each winner gave a speech of thanks--to the Norwegian Academy, to the King, to their supportive families, and to colleagues past and present.
		Left: Singer and Atiyah are presented with a special "Abel cake" created by the pastry chefs at the Hotel Continental.
	www.ams.org /ams/abel2004.html (841 words)

	Abel Prize 2004 - Biographies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Atiyah got his B.A. and his doctorate from Trinity College, Cambridge.
		Atiyah has spent the greatest part of his academic career in Cambridge and Oxford.
		Atiyah is now retired and an honorary professor at the University of Edinburgh.
	www.elsevier.com /homepage/sac/mathweb/abelprize_bio.html (571 words)

	Atiyah, Sir Michael Francis -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		British mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1966 primarily for his work in topology.
		Atiyah's father was Lebanese and his mother Scottish.
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	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9094946?tocId=9094946 (652 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Euclid and Victoria
		Edward Atiyah's Anglophile tendencies, initially acquired in a sectarian Levant whose Christians, oppressed by Ottoman rule and egged on by missionaries, looked to the West as saviour, were consolidated when he was sent to Victoria College (VC) in Alexandria.
		He would replace an uncle as Intelligence Officer, "a sort of intermediary-general between the Government and the Sudanese people" and, finally, resolve his conflicting loyalties on the eve of the 1948 War (his memoir was published in 1946) by committing to the cause of "Anglo-Arab friendship".
		Sir Michael is not averse to explaining, in terms accessible to the layman, his contribution.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /1998/391/people.htm (1474 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Collected Works of Sir Michael Atiyah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Professor Atiyah is one of the greatest living mathematicians and is well known throughout the mathematical world.
		He is a recipient of the Fields Medal, the mathematical equivalent of the Nobel Prize, and is still at the peak of his career.
		This sixth volume in Michael Atiyah's collected works contains a selection of his publications since 1987, including his work on skyrmions, "Atiyah's axioms" for topological quantum field theories, monopoles, knots, K-theory, equivariant problems, point particles, and M-theory.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0198530994 (269 words)

	Evidence re. Delegates' meetings, approval etc. item 7
		Sir Michael Atiyah, a mathematician, was a Delegate of the Press in 1985.
		Atiyah: Well, I may well have the documents, but certainly the documents are not confidential.
		Atiyah: Of course the minutes or records that are kept are usually very brief, they just record books which have been approved or otherwise.
	www.akme.btinternet.co.uk /xBB07.html (543 words)

	News & Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sir Michael Atiyah, Honorary Professor at The University of Edinburgh’s School of Mathematics, is to deliver the first Einstein Public Lecture in Mathematics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
		The lecture forms part of the American Mathematical Society’s celebrations for the centennial of Einstein’s most famous and important work; it was in 1905 that his paper on special relativity, which includes the iconic equation E=mc
		Sir Michael Atiyah is a very well-respected mathematician.
	www.ials.edinburgh.ac.uk /news/051005atiyah.html (249 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Mathematicians share Abel Prize
		Sir Michael Atiyah and Isadore Singer have been awarded the Abel Prize for their outstanding work in mathematics.
		In its citation for the £480,000 prize, the academy said their theorem "is one of the great landmarks of 20th Century mathematics, influencing profoundly many of the most important later developments in topology, differential geometry and quantum field theory".
		Sir Michael was president of the Royal Society, the UK's academy of science, in the early 1990s.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/science/nature/3571155.stm (440 words)

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