Miles Anthony Reid FRS (born 30 January 1948) is a mathematician who works in

algebraic geometry Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics, classically studying zeros of multivariate polynomials. Modern algebraic geometry is based on the use of abstract algebraic techniques, mainly from commutative algebra, for solving geometrical ...

Education

Reid studied the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos at Trinity College, Cambridge and obtained his Ph.D. in 1973 under the supervision of Peter Swinnerton-Dyer and Pierre Deligne.

Career

Reid was a research fellow of

Christ's College, Cambridge Christ's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college includes the Master, the Fellows of the College, and about 450 undergraduate and 170 graduate students. The college was founded by William Byngham in 1437 as ...

from 1973 to 1978. He became a lecturer at the University of Warwick in 1978 and was appointed professor there in 1992. He has written two well known books: ''Undergraduate Algebraic Geometry'' and ''Undergraduate Commutative Algebra''.

Awards and honours

Reid was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2002. In the same year, he participated as an Invited Speaker in the

International Congress of Mathematicians The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU). The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize (to be rename ...

in Beijing. Reid was awarded the Senior Berwick Prize in 2006 for his paper with Alessio Corti and Aleksandr Pukhlikov, "Fano 3-fold hypersurfaces", which made a big advance in the study of 3-dimensional algebraic varieties.

Personal life

Reid speaks Japanese and Russian and has given lectures in Japanese.

Bibliography

His most famous book is *Undergraduate Algebraic Geometry, Cambridge University Press 1988 () Other books *Undergraduate commutative algebra, Cambridge University Press 1995, *with Balazs Szendroi: Geometry and topology, Cambridge University Press 2007 His most famous translation is the two volume work by

Shafarevich Igor Rostislavovich Shafarevich (russian: И́горь Ростисла́вович Шафаре́вич; 3 June 1923 – 19 February 2017) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician who contributed to algebraic number theory and algebraic geometry ...

*Basic Algebraic Geometry 1 () *Basic Algebraic Geometry 2 ()

References

1948 births Living people People from Hoddesdon 20th-century English mathematicians 21st-century English mathematicians Algebraic geometers Fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Society Academics of the University of Warwick Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge {{UK-mathematician-stub