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...