Simon Donaldson shocked the mathematical world during the 1980s with a series of papers on the structure of four-dimensional spaces. Researchers had produced a collection of results during the previous decade that outlined a general understanding of...

1957- English Mathematician While still a graduate student, English mathematician Simon Donaldson published advances in topology (a division of geometry concerning the mathematical properties of deformed space) heralded by scholars as an important...

Simon Kirwan Donaldson, born in Cambridge in 1957, is an English mathematician famous for his work on the topology of smooth (differentiable) four-dimensional manifolds. Donaldson gained a BA in mathematics from Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1979, and...

David Donaldson celebrated his eightieth birthday on 29 June. This event was marked with the publication of his biography, and shortly afterwards with a major retrospective exhibition at the Talbot Rice Gallery in Edinburgh which is currently at Glasgow School of Art. Both the...

HOLD ON, MR. PRESIDENT, by Sam Donaldson. Random House. 260 pp. $17.95. Let's make one thing perfectly clear, as somebody-or-other used to say, Sam Donaldson has never said, "Hold on, Mr. President," at least not in so many words, and being a reporter,...