Person Swinnerton-Dyer; Sir; Henry Peter Francis (1927 - 2018) Swinnerton-Dyer Henry Peter Francis Sir Henry Peter Francis Swinnerton- Dyer 1927 - 2018 British Male Ponteland, Northumberland, England 02/08/1927 19270802 26/12/2018 20181226

Honours: KBE 1987 16th Bt (1975) Peter Swinnerton-Dyer was a renowned mathematician specialising in number theory — the advanced study of the relationships and properties of numbers. Today, this field has important applications in computer science and cryptography. Peter was best known for his collaboration with Bryan Birch in putting forward one of the US$1 million ‘Millennium Prize’ problems, the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture. With Bryan, Peter worked to explore the properties of what are known as elliptic curves using one of the first electronic computers. Their conjecture is often considered the first non-trivial mathematical problem to arise from such computer use. As well as his mathematical research, Peter also worked on the operating system for the TITAN computer built in the 1960s at the University of Cambridge. Amongst Peter’s awards were the Sylvester Medal of the Royal Society and the 2006 Pólya Prize of the London Mathematical Society. He was invested with a KBE in 1987, though as a baronet he was already formally known as Sir Peter. He was also Chairman of the UK University Grants Committee. Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer Bt KBE FRS died on 26 December 2018. Royal Society roles: Council: 1976-1978, 1991-1992; VP 1977-1978 Medals and prizes: Sylvester Medal 2006 Fellow 16/03/1967 39 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Anglo American Cataloguing Rules (second edition) rules for double barrelled and compound surnames 2 Aug 1927 - 26 Dec 2018 NA570 21/11/2001 Andyg Martind 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/35155845 ae74605c-d52d-4a87-beca-93055375a055