W. V. D. Hodge | |
|---|---|
| Born | 17 June 1903 Edinburgh, UK |
| Died | 7 July 1975 (aged 72) Cambridge, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | George Watson's College |
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh St John's College, Cambridge[1] |
| Known for | Hodge conjecture Hodge dual Hodge bundle Hodge theory |
| Awards | Adams Prize (1936) Senior Berwick Prize (1952) Royal Medal (1957) De Morgan Medal (1959) Copley Medal (1974) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Pembroke College, Cambridge |
| Academic advisors | E. T. Whittaker |
| Doctoral students | Michael Atiyah Ian R. Porteous David J. Simms |
Sir William Vallance Douglas Hodge FRS FRSE[2] (/hɒdʒ/; 17 June 1903 – 7 July 1975) was a British mathematician, specifically a geometer.[3][4]
His discovery of far-reaching topological relations between algebraic geometry and differential geometry—an area now called Hodge theory and pertaining more generally to Kähler manifolds—has been a major influence on subsequent work in geometry.
- ^ Hodge biography - University of St Andrews
- ^ Atiyah, M. F. (1976). "William Vallance Douglas Hodge. 17 June 1903 -- 7 July 1975". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 22: 169–192. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1976.0007. S2CID 72054846.
- ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "W. V. D. Hodge", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- ^ W. V. D. Hodge at the Mathematics Genealogy Project