Bryan Birch#
Membership Number: | 4835 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | MATHEMATICS |
Elected: | 2018 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Homepage(s): | https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/people/bryan.birch |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1998 - present Professor Emeritus, University of Oxford
- 1985 - 1998 Professor of Arithmetic, University of Oxford
- 1966 - 1998 Fellow if Brasenose College, Oxford
- 1966 - 1985 Reader in Mathematics, University of Oxford
- 1962 - 1965 Senior Lecturer and Reader, University of Manchester
- 1959 - 1962 Senior Research Fellow, Churchill College. Cambridge
- 1957 - 1958 Commonwealth Fund Fellow, Princeton University
- 1956 - 1960 Junior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge
Fields of Scholarship
- L-functions
- Arithmetic geometry
- Number theory
Honours and Awards
- 1966 Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians, Moscow
- 1972 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1993 Senior Whitehead Prize, London Mathematical Society
- 2007 De Morgan Medal, London Mathematical Society
- 2012 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
- 2016 Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
- 2020 Sylvester Medal of the Royal Society