Minhyong Kim
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Yale University (Ph.D., 1991)
Minhyong Kim | |
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| Born | 1963 (age 62–63) Seoul, South Korea |
| Education | Seoul National University (B.S., 1986) Yale University (Ph.D., 1991) |
| Known for | Arithmetical Algebraic Geometry |
| Awards | Ho-Am Prize (2012) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Edinburgh |
| Doctoral advisor | Serge Lang, Barry Mazur |
| Doctoral students | Susan H. Marshall |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 김민형 |
| RR | Gim Minhyeong |
| MR | Kim Minhyŏng |
Minhyong Kim (Korean: 김민형) is a South Korean mathematician who specialises in arithmetic geometry and anabelian geometry.
Kim received his PhD at Yale University in 1990 under the supervision of Serge Lang and Barry Mazur, going on to work in a number of universities, including M.I.T., Columbia, Arizona, Purdue, the Korea Institute for Advanced Study, UCL (University College London), the University of Oxford, where he was Head of the Number Theory Research Group, and the University of Warwick, where he was the Christopher Zeeman Professor of Algebra, Geometry, and the Public Understanding of Mathematics. He is currently the Director of the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences and Sir Edmund Whittaker Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the Maxwell Institute, the joint graduate school of the University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University.
He is married to Larissa McGoldrick, a former dancer for Merce Cunningham. They have two sons, Oisin and Niall. Kim's father is the literature scholar Kim Uchang and his brother is the biologist Junhyong Kim.
Research
Kim has made contributions to the application of arithmetic homotopy theory to the study of Diophantine problems, especially to finiteness theorems of the Faltings–Siegel type.
His work was featured in 2017 in the Quanta Magazine, where he described his work as being inspired by physics.[1]
