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| Born | Richard Paul Winsley Thomas |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Known for | |
| Awards | Whitehead Prize[1] (2004) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Imperial College London |
| Thesis | Gauge Theory on Calabi-Yau Manifolds (1997[2]) |
| Doctoral advisor | Simon Donaldson |
| Website | www2 |
Richard Paul Winsley Thomas FRS is a British mathematician working in several areas of geometry. He is a professor at Imperial College London. He studies moduli problems in algebraic geometry, and ‘mirror symmetry’—a phenomenon in pure mathematics predicted by string theory in theoretical physics.[3]
- ^ "Department of Mathematics Prizes and Awards". Imperial College London. Archived from the original on 27 January 2020. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
- ^ Richard Thomas at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Richard Thomas FRS Biography