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Martin J. Taylor FRS, is professor of pure mathematics at the University of Manchester and before that UMIST where he was appointed to a chair after moving he moved from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1986. He was born in Leicester in 1952 and currently lives in Bramhall, Cheshire.
Taylor gained a first class degree in from Pembroke College, Oxford in 1973, and a PhD from King's College, London with a thesis entitled "Galois module structure of the ring of integers of l-extensions" in 1976 under the supervision of A. Fröhlich
His early research concerned various properties and structures of algebraic numbers. In 1981 he proved the Fröhlich conjecture relating the symmetries of algebraic integers to the behaviour of certain analytic functions called Artin L-functions. In recent years his research has led him to study various aspects of arithmetic geometry: in particular, he and his collaborators have demonstrated how geometric properties of zeros of integral polynomials in many variables can be determined by the behaviour associated L-functions.
Taylor was awarded the London Mathematical Society Whitehead Prize in 1982 and shared the Adams Prize in 1983. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1996 and became President of the London Mathematical Society in 1998,
His hobbies include fly fishing and hill walking, and he is enthusiastically supports the football club Manchester United.
External links
- Home page [1] (http://www.ma.umist.ac.uk/mjt)
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