Michael Atiyah
British mathematician · United Kingdom · On the map · Academics · Lived 1929 to 2019 · aged 89
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah was a British-Lebanese mathematician specialising in geometry. His contributions include the Atiyah-Singer index theorem and co-founding topological K-theory. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1966 and the Abel Prize in 2004.
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Great Court of Trinity College, Cambridge, where Atiyah was a student and later Master
The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where Atiyah was professor from 1969 to 1972
The old Mathematical Institute (now the Department of Statistics) in Oxford, where Atiyah supervised many of his students
A twisted cubic curve, the subject of Atiyah's first paper
A Möbius band is the simplest non-trivial example of a vector bundle.
Michael Atiyah and Friedrich Hirzebruch (right), the creators of K-theory
Isadore Singer (in 1977), who worked with Atiyah on index theory
