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Simon Donaldson (Simon Kirwan Donaldson) was born on 20 August, 1957 in Cambridge, England, is an English mathematician. Discover Simon Donaldson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 66 years old?

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Born 20 August, 1957
Birthday 20 August
Birthplace Cambridge, England
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1957

Sir Simon Kirwan Donaldson (born 20 August 1957) is an English mathematician known for his work on the topology of Smooth (differentiable) four-dimensional manifolds, Donaldson–Thomas theory, and his contributions to Kähler geometry.

He is currently a permanent member of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University in New York, and a Professor in Pure Mathematics at Imperial College London.

Donaldson's father was an electrical engineer in the physiology department at the University of Cambridge, and his mother earned a science degree there.

1979

Donaldson gained a BA degree in mathematics from Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1979, and in 1980 began postgraduate work at Worcester College, Oxford, at first under Nigel Hitchin and later under Michael Atiyah's supervision.

1982

Still a postgraduate student, Donaldson proved in 1982 a result that would establish his fame.

1983

He published the result in a paper "Self-dual connections and the topology of Smooth 4-manifolds" which appeared in 1983.

In the words of Atiyah, the paper "stunned the mathematical world."

Whereas Michael Freedman classified topological four-manifolds, Donaldson's work focused on four-manifolds admitting a differentiable structure, using instantons, a particular solution to the equations of Yang–Mills gauge theory which has its origin in quantum field theory.

One of Donaldson's first results gave severe restrictions on the intersection form of a Smooth four-manifold.

As a consequence, a large class of the topological four-manifolds do not admit any Smooth structure at all.

Donaldson also derived polynomial invariants from gauge theory.

These were new topological invariants sensitive to the underlying Smooth structure of the four-manifold.

They made it possible to deduce the existence of "exotic" Smooth structures—certain topological four-manifolds could carry an infinite family of different Smooth structures.

After gaining his DPhil degree from Oxford University in 1983, Donaldson was appointed a Junior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.

He spent the academic year 1983–84 at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and returned to Oxford as Wallis Professor of Mathematics in 1985.

Donaldson was an invited speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in 1983, and a plenary speaker at the ICM in 1986, 1998, and 2018.

1985

In 1985, Donaldson received the Junior Whitehead Prize from the London Mathematical Society.

1986

In 1986, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and received a Fields Medal at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Berkeley.

1994

In 1994, he was awarded the Crafoord Prize in Mathematics.

1998

After spending one year visiting Stanford University, he moved to Imperial College London in 1998 as Professor of Pure Mathematics.

2006

In February 2006, Donaldson was awarded the King Faisal International Prize for science for his work in pure mathematical theories linked to physics, which have helped in forming an understanding of the laws of matter at a subnuclear level.

2008

In April 2008, he was awarded the Nemmers Prize in Mathematics, a mathematics prize awarded by Northwestern University.

2009

In 2009, he was awarded the Shaw Prize in Mathematics (jointly with Clifford Taubes) for their contributions to geometry in 3 and 4 dimensions.

2010

In 2010, Donaldson was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

2012

He was knighted in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to mathematics.

In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

He then solved the Kähler–Einstein case of the problem in 2012, in collaboration with Chen and Sun.

This latest spectacular achievement involved a number of difficult and technical papers.

The first of these was the paper of on Gromov–Hausdorff limits.

2014

In 2014, he joined the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University in New York, United States.

In 2014, he was awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics "for the new revolutionary invariants of 4-dimensional manifolds and for the study of the relation between stability in algebraic geometry and in global differential geometry, both for bundles and for Fano varieties."

In March 2014, he was awarded the degree "Docteur Honoris Causa" by Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble.

2017

In January 2017, he was awarded the degree "Doctor Honoris Causa" by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.

Donaldson's work is on the application of mathematical analysis (especially the analysis of elliptic partial differential equations) to problems in geometry.

The problems mainly concern gauge theory, 4-manifolds, complex differential geometry and symplectic geometry.

The following theorems have been mentioned:

Donaldson's recent work centers on a problem in complex differential geometry concerning a conjectural relationship between algebro-geometric "stability" conditions for Smooth projective varieties and the existence of "extremal" Kähler metrics, typically those with constant scalar curvature (see for example cscK metric).

Donaldson obtained results in the toric case of the problem (see for example ).

2019

In January 2019, he was awarded the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry (jointly with Xiuxiong Chen and Song Sun).

2020

In 2020 he received the Wolf Prize in Mathematics (jointly with Yakov Eliashberg).