Bryan Birch

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Bryan Birch is a British mathematician renowned for his foundational contributions to number theory, particularly as a co-formulator of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture.

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instanceOf human
mathematician
affiliation Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
awardReceived De Morgan Medal
Senior Whitehead Prize
Sylvester Medal
coAuthor Peter Swinnerton-Dyer
coAuthorOf Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
contributedTo conjectures relating L-functions and arithmetic invariants
theory of elliptic curves
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
doctoralStudent John H. Coates
Nigel Boston
Peter Swinnerton-Dyer
educatedAt Magdalene College, Cambridge
University of Cambridge
employer University of Oxford
fieldOfWork algebraic number theory
arithmetic geometry
number theory
gender male
givenName Bryan
hasAcademicDiscipline mathematics
hasAcademicRank professor
influenced development of arithmetic geometry
research in modern number theory
knownFor Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Royal Society
name Bryan Birch
nationality British
notableFor foundational contributions to number theory
notableStudent John H. Coates
Nigel Boston
notableWork paper formulating the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
positionHeld professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford
researchInterest L-functions
elliptic curves
modular forms
residence United Kingdom
workplace University of Oxford

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