Martin Bridson

Martin Bridson
FRS
Bridson in 2016
Born (1964-10-22) 22 October 1964 (age 60)[2]
Douglas, Isle of Man
EducationSt Ninian's High School, Douglas
Alma mater
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsGeometric group theory
Institutions
ThesisGeodesics and Curvature in Metric Simplicial Complexes (1991)
Doctoral advisorKaren Vogtmann[1]
Doctoral studentsDaniel Wise[1]
Websitepeople.maths.ox.ac.uk/bridson

Martin Robert Bridson FRS (born 22 October 1964) is a Manx mathematician. He is Whitehead Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Oxford, and the president of the Clay Mathematics Institute. He was previously the head of Oxford's Mathematical Institute. He is a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford and an honorary fellow of Hertford College, Oxford. Specializing in geometry, topology and group theory, Bridson is best known for his work in geometric group theory.[1][3][4]

Education and early life

Bridson at Oberwolfach in 2013

Bridson is a native of the Isle of Man.[5] He was educated at St Ninian's High School, Douglas, then Hertford College, Oxford, and Cornell University,[2] receiving a Master of Arts degree from Oxford in 1986, and a Master of Science degree in 1988 followed by a PhD in 1991 from Cornell.[6][1] His PhD thesis was supervised by Karen Vogtmann,[1] and was entitled Geodesics and Curvature in Metric Simplicial Complexes.

Career and research

He was an assistant professor at Princeton University until 1996, was twice a visiting professor at the University of Geneva (1992 and 2006), and was Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College London from 2002 to 2007. From 1993 to 2002 he was a Tutorial Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, and Reader (1996) then Professor of Topology (2000) in the University of Oxford. He remains a Supernumerary Fellow of Pembroke College.[7] In 2016, Bridson became only the second Manxman to ever be elected to the Royal Society, after Edward Forbes. In 2020, he was elected to Academia Europaea.[8] With André Haefliger, he won the 2020 Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition for the highly influential book Metric Spaces of Non-positive Curvature, published by Springer-Verlag in 1999.

Honours and awards

Bridson was an invited lecturer at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2006.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Martin Bridson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ a b Anon (2017). "Bridson, Prof. Martin Robert". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.250830. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ Martin Bridson publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  4. ^ Martin Bridson publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  5. ^ "WEDDINGS;Julie A. Lynch, Martin R. Bridson". The New York Times. 31 December 1995.
  6. ^ "Bridson Martin - Magdalen College". Archived from the original on 23 July 2012. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
  7. ^ Bridson, Martin. "Martin R. Bridson". people.maths.ox.ac.uk.
  8. ^ "Martin Bridson and Endre Suli elected to Academia Europaea". maths.ox.ac.uk. 31 July 2020. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
  9. ^ "Martin bridson biography". Royal Society. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
  10. ^ "American Mathematical Society". www.ams.org.
  11. ^ "Leroy P Steele Prize". www.ams.org.

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