Geoffrey Horrocks
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Geoffrey Horrocks is a British
mathematician
whose work on vector bundle
s has been important for the ADHM construction
.
He was a professor at Newcastle University until his retirement in 1998.
United Kingdom
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mathematician
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
whose work on vector bundle
Vector bundle
In mathematics, a vector bundle is a topological construction that makes precise the idea of a family of vector spaces parameterized by another space X : to every point x of the space X we associate a vector space V in such a way that these vector spaces fit together...
s has been important for the ADHM construction
ADHM construction
The ADHM construction or monad construction is the construction of all instantons using method of linear algebra by Michael Atiyah, Vladimir G. Drinfel'd, Nigel. J. Hitchin, Yuri I...
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He was a professor at Newcastle University until his retirement in 1998.