Richard Thomas (mathematician)
Richard Paul Winsley Thomas FRS is a British mathematician working in several areas of geometry. He is a professor at Imperial College London. He studies moduli problems in algebraic geometry, and ‘mirror symmetry’—a phenomenon in pure mathematics predicted by string theory in theoretical physics.
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| Born | Richard Paul Winsley Thomas |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
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| Awards | Whitehead Prize (2004) |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Imperial College London |
| Thesis | Gauge Theory on Calabi-Yau Manifolds (1997) |
| Doctoral advisor | Simon Donaldson |
| Website | www2 |
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