Geoffrey Horrocks (1932/33

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– 12 September 2012) was a British mathematician working on

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s, who introduced the

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used in the

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, and the Horrocks–Mumford bundle and monads. He was a professor at

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until his retirement in 1998.

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2012 deaths 1930s births Academics of Newcastle University Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge 20th-century British mathematicians 21st-century British mathematicians Algebraic geometers {{UK-mathematician-stub