| Dewey Class |
516 (DDC 22) |
| Title |
The many facets of geometry : a tribute to Nigel Hitchin ([Ebook]) / edited by Oscar García-Prada, Jean Pierre Bourguignon, Simon Salamon. |
| Added Personal Name |
García-Prada, O. (Oscar) |
| Bourguignon, J.-P. (Jean-Pierre) |
| Salamon, Simon |
| Other name(s) |
Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Publication |
Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2010 |
| Physical Details |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Oxford science publications |
| ISBN |
9780191716010 |
| Note |
Print publication date: 2010. - Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2010 ; "A conference to honour Professor Nigel Hitchin on the occasion of his 60th birthday took place at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas in Madrid during the week of 4-8 September 2006. ... This book was conceived at the time of the September conference ... [and] incorporates chapters from most of the speakers".--Pref. |
| Summary Note |
Few people have proved more influential in the field of differential and algebraic geometry, and in showing how this links with mathematical physics, than Nigel Hitchin. Oxford University's Savilian Professor of Geometry has made fundamental contributions in areas as diverse as: spin geometry, instanton and monopole equations, twistor theory, symplectic geometry of moduli spaces, integrables systems, Higgs bundles, Einstein metrics, hyperkähler geometry, Frobenius manifolds, Painlevé equations, special Lagrangian geometry and mirror symmetry, theory of grebes, and many more. He was previously Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, as well as Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick, is a Fellow of the Royal Society and has been the President of the London Mathematical Society. The chapters in this book, written by some of the greats in their fields (including four Fields Medalists), show how Hitchin's ideas have impacted on a wide variety of subjects. The book grew out of the Geometry Conference in Honour of Nigel Hitchin, held in Madrid.: |
| Mode of acces to digital resource |
Digital book.- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010. - Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Internet Explorer 6.0 (or higher) or Firefox 2.0 (or higher) |
| System details note |
Online access to this digital book is restricted to subscribing institutions through IP address (only for SISSA internal users) |
| Internet Site |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199534920.001.0001 |
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