Alan Frank Beardon
British mathematician (born 1940)
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Alan Frank Beardon (April 16, 1940) is a British mathematician.
BornApril 16, 1940
United Kingdom
AlmamaterImperial College London
AwardsLester R. Ford Award[1] (1997)
G. de B. Robinson Award[2] (2017)
G. de B. Robinson Award[2] (2017)
FieldsAlgebraic Geometry
Alan Frank Beardon | |
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Alan Beardon at Oberwolfach, 1988 | |
| Born | April 16, 1940 United Kingdom |
| Alma mater | Imperial College London |
| Awards | Lester R. Ford Award[1] (1997) G. de B. Robinson Award[2] (2017) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Algebraic Geometry |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | On the Hausdorff dimension of certain sets (PhD, 1964) |
| Doctoral advisor | Walter Kurt Hayman |
| Doctoral students | Samuel James Patterson |
Education and career
Beardon obtained his doctorate at Imperial College London in 1964, supervised by Walter Hayman.[3] In 1970 he was appointed as a lecturer in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge, with promotions to readership and professorship until his retirement in 2007. He is an emeritus fellow of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge.[4][5]
Works
- Creative Mathematics - The Gateway to Research, Cambridge University Press, 2009
- Algebra and Geometry, Cambridge University Press, 2005
- Limits: A New Approach to Real Analysis, Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics, Springer Verlag, 1997
- The geometry of discrete groups, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Springer Verlag, 1983, 1995
- Iteration of rational functions. Complex analytical dynamical systems, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Springer Verlag, 1991
- A Primer on Riemann Surfaces, Cambridge University Press, 1984
- Complex analysis: the argument principle in analysis and topology, Wiley, 1979