| RefNo | EC/1985/08 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XXI, 190 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Coates, John Henry: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Date | 21 March 1985 |
| Description | Citation typed |
| Citation | Distinguished for his contributions to the theory of numbers, in particular to the study of transcendence, cyclotomic fields and elliptic curves. In addition to his own important contributions he has been a stimulating influence on colleagues and students. Together with his pupil A. Wiles he achieved the first major breakthrough towards a proof of the Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer conjectures. |
| AccessStatus | Closed |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA4034 | Coates; John Henry (1945 - 2022); mathematician | 1945 - 2022 |