Sir Michael Atiyah was a British-Lebanese mathematician, a Fields’ medalist, and Abel prize winner (with Isadore Singer). He was professor of mathematics at Edinburgh University.
Notices of the AMS, Memories of Sir Michael Atiyah (pdf, pdf)
Alain Connes, Joseph Kouneiher, Sir Michael Atiyah, a Knight Mathematician A tribute to Michael Atiyah, an inspiration and a friend (arxiv:1910.07851)
Nigel Hitchin, Sir Michael Atiyah OM. 22 April 1929–11 January 2019, Biographical Memoirs of the FRS, September 2020 (doi:10.1098/rsbm.2020.0001)
Introducing topological K-theory:
M. F. Atiyah, F. Hirzebruch, Riemann-Roch theorems for differentiable manifolds, Bull. Amer. Math Soc. vol. 65 (1959) pp. 276-281 (euclid:bams/1183523205)
M. F. Atiyah, F. Hirzebruch, Vector bundles and homogeneous spaces, 1961, Proc. Sympos. Pure Math., Vol. III pp. 7–38 American Mathematical Society, Providence, R.I. (doi:10.1142/9789814401319_0008, web, MR 0139181)
Michael Atiyah, K-theory, Harvard Lecture 1964 (notes by D. W. Anderson), Benjamin 1967 (pdf)
On Bott periodicity:
On the KO-theory of complex projective 3-space:
On quantum anomalies via index theory:
On moment maps, equivariant de Rham cohomology and equivariant localization:
On group characters and group cohomology of finite groups:
On the Atiyah-Hirzebruch spectral sequence
On KR-theory
On equivariant K-theory and the Atiyah-Segal completion theorem:
On instantons in Yang-Mills theory:
On the moduli spaces of monopoles:
Michael Atiyah, Nigel Hitchin, The geometry and dynamics of magnetic monopoles M. B. Porter Lectures. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1988 (jstor:j.ctt7zv206)
Michael Atiyah, Nigel Hitchin, J. T. Stuart and M. Tabor, Low-Energy Scattering of Non-Abelian Magnetic Monopoles, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences Vol. 315, No. 1533, New Developments in the Theory and Application of Solitons (Aug. 13, 1985), pp. 459-469 (jstor:37546)
On knot theory and Chern-Simons theory:
On skyrmions from KK-reduction of instantons in D=5 Yang-Mills theory (hadron Kaluza-Klein theory):
and in a variant on hyperbolic space:
On The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Physics in the Mathematical Sciences:
On patterns in the characteristic classes (Chern classes) of complex surfaces, together with some speculations about an anlogy with atomic number of atomic nuclei (inspired by hadron Kaluza-Klein theory):
Michael Atiyah, Nicholas Manton, Bernd Schroers, Geometric Models of Matter, Proceedings of the Royal Society A (arXiv:1108.5151, doi:10.1098/rspa.2011.0616)
Michael Atiyah, Nicholas Manton, Complex Geometry of Nuclei and Atoms, International Journal of Modern Physics AVol. 33, No. 24, 1830022 (2018) (arXiv:1609.02816, doi:10.1142/S0217751X18300223)
Michael Atiyah, Geometric Models of Helium, Modern Physics Letters AVol. 32, No. 14, 1750079 (2017) (arXiv:1703.02532, doi:10.1142/S0217732317500791)
The aim of theory really is, to a great extent, that of systematically organizing past experience in such a way that the next generation, our students and their students and so on, will be able to absorb the essential aspects in as painless a way as possible, and this is the only way in which you can go on cumulatively building up any kind of scientific activity without eventually coming to a dead end.
(M.F. Atiyah, “How research is carried out”, Bull. IMA., 10:232–234, 1974)
…many more…
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