Frances Kirwan
British mathematician (born 1959) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dame Frances Clare Kirwan, DBE FRS (born 21 August 1959)[2] is a British mathematician, currently Savilian Professor of Geometry at the University of Oxford. Her fields of specialisation are algebraic and symplectic geometry.[3][4]
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Frances Kirwan | |
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Born | 21 August 1959[1] UK |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge University of Oxford |
Awards | Whitehead Prize (1989) Senior Whitehead Prize (2013) Suffrage Science award (2016) Sylvester Medal of The Royal Society(2021) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Oxford |
Thesis | The Cohomology of Quotients in Symplectic and Algebraic Geometry |
Doctoral advisor | Michael Atiyah |
Website | www |
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