Jump to content
 







Main menu
   


Navigation  



Main page
Contents
Current events
Random article
About Wikipedia
Contact us
Donate
 




Contribute  



Help
Learn to edit
Community portal
Recent changes
Upload file
 








Search  

































Create account

Log in
 









Create account
 Log in
 




Pages for logged out editors learn more  



Contributions
Talk
 



















Contents

   



(Top)
 


1 Early life and education  





2 Research  





3 Awards  





4 Personal life  





5 Notes  





6 External links  














Martin J. Taylor






العربية
Deutsch
Français
مصرى
Português
 

Edit links
 









Article
Talk
 

















Read
Edit
View history
 








Tools
   


Actions  



Read
Edit
View history
 




General  



What links here
Related changes
Upload file
Special pages
Permanent link
Page information
Cite this page
Get shortened URL
Download QR code
Wikidata item
 




Print/export  



Download as PDF
Printable version
 
















Appearance
   

 






From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 


Martin Taylor
Taylor in 2002
Born (1952-02-18) 18 February 1952 (age 72)
Leicester, England
NationalityBritish
Alma materPembroke College, Oxford
King's College London
Awards
  • Adams Prize (1983)
  • Fellow of the Royal Society (1996)
  • Knight Bachelor (2009)
  • Scientific career
    FieldsMathematics
    Institutions
  • UMIST
  • University of Manchester
  • Merton College, Oxford
  • Doctoral advisorAlbrecht Fröhlich

    Sir Martin John Taylor, FRS (born 18 February 1952) is a British mathematician and academic. He was Professor of Pure Mathematics at the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester and, prior to its formation and merger, UMIST where he was appointed to a chair after moving from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1986. He was elected Warden of Merton College, Oxford on 5 November 2009, took office on 2 October 2010 and retired in September 2018.[1]

    Early life and education[edit]

    Taylor was born in Leicester in 1952 and educated at Wyggeston Grammar School. He gained a first class degree from Pembroke College, Oxford in 1973, and a Ph.D. from King's College London with a thesis entitled Galois module structure of the ring of integers of l-extensions in 1976 under the supervision of Albrecht Fröhlich.

    Research[edit]

    His early research concerned various properties and structures of algebraic numbers. In 1981 he proved the Fröhlich conjecture relating the symmetries of algebraic integers to the behaviour of certain analytic functions called Artin L-functions. In recent years his research has led him to study various aspects of arithmetic geometry: in particular, he and his collaborators have demonstrated how geometric properties of zeros of integral polynomials in many variables can be determined by the behaviour of associated L-functions.

    Awards[edit]

    Taylor was awarded the London Mathematical Society Whitehead Prize in 1982[2] and shared the Adams Prize in 1983.[3] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1996.[4] He was President of the London Mathematical Society from 1998 to 2000 and in 2004 was appointed Physical Secretary and Vice-President of the Royal Society.[3] Taylor was knighted in the 2009 New Year Honours.[5][6] Taylor received an honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of East Anglia in July 2012.[7]

    Personal life[edit]

    His hobbies include fly fishing and hill walking,[8] and he is an enthusiastic supporter of Manchester United.

    Notes[edit]

    1. ^ "Professor Irene Tracey named next warden". merton.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  • ^ "List of LMS prize winners". London Mathematical Society. 17 November 2010. Retrieved 3 May 2013.
  • ^ a b "Sir Martin Taylor FRS". The Royal Society. Retrieved 3 May 2013.
  • ^ "Fellows of the Royal Society". The Royal Society. Retrieved 3 May 2013.
  • ^ "No. 58929". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2008. p. 1.
  • ^ Morgan, James (31 December 2008). "Honour for Royal Society luminary". BBC. Retrieved 3 May 2013.
  • ^ "University of East Anglia unveils 2012 honorary graduates". University of East Anglia. 22 May 2012. Retrieved 3 May 2013.
  • ^ Who's Who 2010. London: A & C Black. 2010. p. 2257. ISBN 978-1-408-11414-8.
  • External links[edit]

    Academic offices
    Preceded by

    Jessica Rawson

    Warden of Merton College, Oxford
    2010–2018
    Succeeded by

    Steven Gunn (acting)


    Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Martin_J._Taylor&oldid=1222487288"

    Categories: 
    1952 births
    Living people
    Alumni of Pembroke College, Oxford
    Alumni of King's College London
    20th-century British mathematicians
    21st-century British mathematicians
    British number theorists
    Fellows of the Royal Society
    Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge
    Academics of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
    Academics of the University of Manchester
    Knights Bachelor
    People educated at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys
    People from Bramhall
    People from Leicester
    Whitehead Prize winners
    Wardens of Merton College, Oxford
    Fellows of Merton College, Oxford
    Hidden categories: 
    Pages containing London Gazette template with parameter supp set to y
    Articles with short description
    Short description matches Wikidata
    Use dmy dates from April 2022
    Articles with hCards
    Articles with ISNI identifiers
    Articles with VIAF identifiers
    Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers
    Articles with BNF identifiers
    Articles with BNFdata identifiers
    Articles with GND identifiers
    Articles with J9U identifiers
    Articles with LCCN identifiers
    Articles with DBLP identifiers
    Articles with MATHSN identifiers
    Articles with MGP identifiers
    Articles with Scopus identifiers
    Articles with ZBMATH identifiers
    Articles with DTBIO identifiers
    Articles with SUDOC identifiers
     



    This page was last edited on 6 May 2024, at 06:48 (UTC).

    Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.



    Privacy policy

    About Wikipedia

    Disclaimers

    Contact Wikipedia

    Code of Conduct

    Developers

    Statistics

    Cookie statement

    Mobile view



    Wikimedia Foundation
    Powered by MediaWiki