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Michael Atiyah Collected Works

Volume 6: 1987-2002

Michael Atiyah author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:28th Oct '04

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Professor Atiyah is one of the greatest living mathematicians and is well known throughout the mathematical world. He is a recipient of the Fields Medal, the mathematical equivalent of the Nobel Prize, and is still at the peak of his career. His huge number of published papers, focusing on the areas of algebraic geometry and topology, have here been collected into six volumes, divided thematically for easy reference by individuals interested in a particular subject. This sixth volume in Michael Atiyah's collected works contains a selection of his publications since 1987, including his work on skyrmions, "Atiyah's axioms" for topological quantum field theories, monopoles, knots, K-theory, equivariant problems, point particles, and M-theory.

The book contains more than a thousand pages of elegant ideas, deep insights and extraordinary mathematics. it should be on the shelf of any mathematical library. * EMS Newsletter *

ISBN: 9780198530992

Dimensions: 255mm x 194mm x 58mm

Weight: 1689g

1056 pages