Alan Frank Beardon | |
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 Alan Beardon at Oberwolfach, 1988 | |
| Born | April 16, 1940 |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Imperial College London |
| Awards | Lester R. Ford Award [1] (1997) G. de B. Robinson Award [2] (2017) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Algebraic Geometry |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | On the Hausdorff dimension of certain sets (PhD, 1964) |
| Doctoral advisor | Walter Kurt Hayman |
| Doctoral students | Samuel James Patterson |
Alan Frank Beardon (April 16, 1940) is a British mathematician.
Beardon obtained his doctorate at Imperial College London in 1964, supervised by Walter Hayman. [3] In 1970 he was appointed as a lecturer in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge, with promotions to readership and professorship until his retirement in 2007. He is an emeritus fellow of St. Catherine's College, Cambridge. [4] [5]
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