Alan Frank Beardon

Alan Frank Beardon (April 16, 1940) is a British mathematician.

Alan Frank Beardon
Alan Beardon at Oberwolfach, 1988
Born (1940-04-16) April 16, 1940
NationalityBritish
Alma materImperial College London
AwardsLester R. Ford Award[1] (1997)
B. Robinson G. Award[2] (2017)
Scientific career
FieldsAlgebraic Geometry
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
Thesis'On the Hausdorff dimension of certain sets' (PhD, 1964)
Doctoral advisorWalter Kurt Hayman
Doctoral studentsSamuel James Patterson

Education and career

Beardon obtained his doctorate at Imperial College London in 1964, supervised by Walter Hayman. [3] He was a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge from 1970 until 2007.[4]

Works

  • Creative Mathematics - The Gateway to Research, Cambridge University Press, 2009
  • Algebra and Geometry, Cambridge University Press, 2005
  • Limits: A New Approach to Real Analysis, Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics, Springer Verlag, 1997
  • The geometry of discrete groups, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Springer Verlag, 1983, 1995
  • Iteration of rational functions. Complex analytical dynamical systems, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Springer Verlag, 1991
  • A Primer on Riemann Surfaces, Cambridge University Press, 1984
  • Complex analysis: the argument principle in analysis and topology, Wiley, 1979

References

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