Professor Atiyah is one of the greatest living mathematicians and is renowned in the mathematical world. He is a recipient of the Fields Medal, the mathematical equivalent of the Nobel Prize, and is still actively involved in the mathematics community. His huge number of published papers, focusing on the areas of algebraic geometry and topology, have here been collected into seven volumes, with the first five volumes divided thematically and the sixth and seventh arranged by date. This seventh volume in Michael Atiyah's Collected Works contains a selection of his publications between 2002 and 2013, including his work on skyrmions; K-theory and cohomology; geometric models of matter; curvature, cones and characteristic numbers; and reflections on the work of Riemann, Einstein and Bott.
Author(s): Michael Atiyah
Edition: 1
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2014
Language: English
Pages: 480
Preface (For Volume 7)
Preface (For Volume 6)
Preface (For Volumes 1–5)
Acknowledgements
Curriculum Vitae 2002–
List of Students
Contents of Volume 7
Contents of Volume 1
Contents of Volume 2
Contents of Volume 3
Contents of Volume 4
Contents of Volume 5
Contents of Volume 6
Commentary
174. Skyrmions, Instantons, Mass and Curvature
175. Twisted K-theory and Cohomology
176. Geometry and Physics
177. A Shifted View of Fundamental Physics
178. Geometric Models of Matter
179. Curvature, Cones, and Characteristic Numbers
180. The Encoding of Temporally Irregular and Regular Visual Patterns in the Human Brain
181. The impact of Thom’s cobordism theory
182. Einstein and geometry
183. Riemann’s Influence in Geometry, Analysis and Number Theory
184. Duality in Mathematics and Physics
185. Some personal reminiscences
186. Mathematics: Art and Science
187. Geometry and Physics of the 20th Century
188. The Art of Mathematics
189. Mind, Matter and Mathematics, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
190. Individual genius or cultural environment?
191. The Athens Dialogues: Science & Ethics. The Spirit of Mathematics
192. The Elements. Festival Milanesiana Lecture
193. Lessons from the Scottish Enlightenment
194. Eighty Years On
195. Science and the Military
196. Science, society and side effects
197. Jo Rotblat: Man With a Cause
198. Benjamin Franklin and the Edinburgh Enlightenment
199. Advice to a Young Mathematician
200. Raoul Harry Bott 1923–2005
201. Working with Raoul Bott: From Geometry to Physics
202. Autobiography
203. Mathematical work of Nigel Hitchin
204. Book Reviews on Bourbaki, A Secret Society of Mathematiciansand The Artist and the Mathematician
205. Book Review on Thoughts of a Mathematician
206. Speech for the opening of the Andrew Wiles Building, University of Oxford Mathematical Institute, 3rd October 2013
