By Oscar Garcia-Prada,Jean Pierre Bourguignon,Simon Salamon

ISBN-10: 0199534926

ISBN-13: 9780199534920

Few humans have proved extra influential within the box of differential and algebraic geometry, and in displaying how this hyperlinks with mathematical physics, than Nigel Hitchin. Oxford University's Savilian Professor of Geometry has made primary contributions in parts as varied as: spin geometry, instanton and monopole equations, twistor conception, symplectic geometry of moduli areas, integrables structures, Higgs bundles, Einstein metrics, hyperkähler geometry,
Frobenius manifolds, Painlevé equations, certain Lagrangian geometry and reflect symmetry, conception of grebes, and lots of more.

He used to be formerly Rouse Ball Professor of arithmetic at Cambridge collage, in addition to Professor of arithmetic on the college of Warwick, is a Fellow of the Royal Society and has been the President of the London Mathematical Society.

The chapters during this interesting quantity, written via many of the greats of their fields (including 4 Fields Medalists), express how Hitchin's principles have impacted on a large choice of topics. The e-book grew out of the Geometry convention in Honour of Nigel Hitchin, held in Madrid, with a few extra contributions, and will be required studying for somebody looking insights into the overlap among geometry and physics.

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