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Alastair Swinnerton Alastair Swinnerton is a UK author and writer/producer known mostly for his involvement with Lego Bionicle, which he co-created with Bob Thompson and Martin Andersen of Lego and Christian Faber of Danish advertising agency Advance. However, he ha ...
, British writer and producer *
Bernadette Swinnerton Bernadette Swinnerton is a former English racing cyclist. She came second in the 1969 Road World Championship road race in Czechoslovakia, 1m 10s behind Audrey McElmury. Cycling In addition to the silver medal at the 1969 UCI Road World Cha ...
, English racing cyclist * Cath Swinnerton, English racing cyclist * Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan, English politician, historian and antiquary *
Frank Arthur Swinnerton Frank Arthur Swinnerton (12 August 1884 – 6 November 1982) was an English people, English novelist, critic, biographer and essayist. He was the author of more than 50 books, and as a publisher's editor helped other writers including Aldous Hux ...
, English novelist, critic, biographer and essayist *
George Swinnerton Parker George Swinnerton Parker (December 12, 1866 – September 26, 1952) was an American game designer and businessman who founded Geo. S. Parker Co. and Parker Brothers. Life and career Parker was born in Salem, Massachusetts.Cutter, William Ric ...
, American board game inventor and industrialist * Henry Hurd Swinnerton, British geologist * Jane Swinnerton, British field hockey player *
Jimmy Swinnerton James Guilford Swinnerton (November 13, 1875 – September 5, 1974) was an American cartoonist and a landscape painter of the Southwest deserts. He was known as Jimmy to some and Swinny to others. He signed some of his early cartoons Swin, and on ...
, American desert landscape painter and cartoonist *Mark Swinnerton, English musician, former member of
Mansun Mansun were an English alternative rock band, formed in Chester in 1995. The band comprised vocalist/rhythm guitarist Paul Draper (musician), Paul Draper, bassist Stove King, lead guitarist/backing vocalist Dominic Chad, and drummer Andie Rath ...
*Matthew Swinnerton, English musician, former member of
the Rakes The Rakes were an English post-punk musical ensemble, band formed in London in 2003. Their first album ''Capture/Release'' released in 2005, received a nine out of ten review in the ''NME'' and was rated 13th best album of the year in the same ...
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Peter Swinnerton-Dyer Sir Henry Peter Francis Swinnerton-Dyer, 16th Baronet, (2 August 1927 – 26 December 2018) was an English mathematician specialising in number theory at the University of Cambridge. As a mathematician he was best known for his part in th ...
, English mathematician


Groups

* Milborne-Swinnerton-Pilkington Baronets, title in the
Baronetage of Nova Scotia Baronets are hereditary titles awarded by the Crown. The current baronetage of the United Kingdom has replaced the earlier, existing baronetages of England, Nova Scotia, Ireland and Great Britain. To be recognised as a baronet, it is necessary ...


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Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture In mathematics, the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture (often called the Birch–Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture) describes the set of rational solutions to equations defining an elliptic curve. It is an open problem in the field of number theory ...
relates the rank of the abelian group of points over a number field of an elliptic curve E to the order of the zero of the associated L-function L (E, s) at s = 1


See also

* Swynnerton (surname) {{surname English-language surnames Lists of people by surname